Who knew that I, the second-time attendee of the ALA annual conference, would be organizing and moderating a panel of a dozen librarians? But I have. Just a few days ago. And I still find the experience amazing and hard to believe because partially I found ALA hard to be involved with initially (I wrote [...]
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Information Overload & Personal Information Management
I am very excited to present at ALA 2010 Annual Conference LITA BIGWIG Social Software Showcase. The topic I am presenting is Information Overload & Personal Information Management. I know that it is not anything fancy or something that would satisfy your techno-lust. But there is a lot to think about libraries and information overload, [...]
Mobile Access to Licensed Databases in Medicine and Other Subject Areas
I gave a presentation on the Handheld Librarian Online Conference on Feb. 17, 2010 with the title of “Mobile Access to Licensed Databases in Medicine and Other Subject Areas,” with my colleague, Marissa Ball. (Unfortunately the archived recording is not available for the public and I can’t even access it…) We also gave the same [...]
ALA before and after – My 2010 MidWinter
What happens when you join ALA? I am not sure about other professional organizations. But at least in ALA, nothing happens unless you are awarded with some scholarships, fellowships, internships, etc. I called up and paid my membership fee. A few weeks later, I got the card with my ALA member number printed in the [...]
Microsoft Surface Table at Libraries
There is this table that has recently fascinated me. It is Microsoft Surface table. With both the commercial and the development version, this table looks absolutely fabulous to my librarian eyes. What is Microsoft Surface table? Imagine a coffee table whose surface works like an iPhone responsive to touch with its full computing power. I [...]
ERM Systems: The Promise and Disappointment
Some conference sessions are just irresistible because of their titles. For example, “Ultimate Debate: Has Library 2.0 fulfilled its promise?” Right? I know that “Electronic Resource Management Systems: The Promise and Disappointment” would have been just as irresistible to some librarians. If you deal with e-resources at work, whether you are cataloging them, acquiring them, [...]
Academic Librarians and Getting Published
When I was in a MLIS program, I was only vaguely aware of the fact that some academic librarians are appointed as faculty while some are not. Now that I work at a library where librarians are considered to be faculty (no tenure-track), publishing has become an issue of my interests lately. So I attended [...]
ALA 2009 sessions attended
Here is the sessions that I have attended at 2009 ALA annual. I am already forgetting to the order of the sessions and the discussions that took place in each session. Hopefully, the presentations would be soon posted at ALA Connect so that I can take a look. I also wish the detailed content and [...]
Why Library Hat?
I am opening this blog right after attending 2009 ALA annual conference in Chicago. It was my first ALA conference, and I was twittering for fun. From the twittering throughout the conference, I came to learn that an amazing number of awesome librarians are actively twittering and blogging in order to record their thoughts and [...]