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 Devices and a Sensor Revolution
Have you heard about the emerging Internet of Things? I have been meaning to write about this for a while now but was unable to find time. This term refers to the new and expanded Internet by real-world objects that are connected to the Internet and feeds the massive amount of new data to the [...]
Joomla: A Nice Surprise
I volunteered to serve on the web committee of the Southern Chapter of Medical Library Association (SC/MLA) this year. The work I do as the co-chair of this committee is to create a web site for the 60th Annual SC/MLA Conference. The idea of using Joomla for the conference site came from the folks at [...]
After Two days with an iPad
So finally it came. The long-awaited iPad. I got this as a birthday present from my husband. So I can’t really say that I was committed to purchase this gadget myself. I doubt if I would have spent that much $$$ although the model I got is the lowest spec (16GB wi-fi access only). But [...]
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 [...]
A lay librarian’s thought on “Nothing is Future”
Wayne Bivens-Tatum, a Princeton librarian and the blogger of Academic Librarian, wrote a post “Nothing is the Future” a few days ago, which resulted in many comments including the very excellent one from Tim Spalding at LibraryThing. In his comment in Thingology, Tim Spalding warns about a potential misreading of Bivens-Tatum’s post suggesting that people [...]
Persistence and Some Other Virtues for Solo Web-Services Librarians
Last September, I did an online presentation through OPAL (Open Program for All). The topic was “Web Services for Underfunded and Understaffed Libraries.” After the presentation, I uploaded my slides on SlideShare and then completely forgot about it. A few days ago, I got an email from SlideShare that notified me the number of views [...]
Thoughts on To-Do Lists & Personal Information Management (PIM)
Have you ever had an A-HA moment for something that only makes sense in a smart phone? I had one of those with a to-do list. To-do list apps are essentially personal information management (PIM) systems. Because you carry your smart phone all the time and it is always on, a smart phone is an [...]
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 [...]