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For anyone who tried to tune in to the George Needham and Joan Frye Williams webcast this past Friday on Challenging the Assumptions of Legacy Librarianship, you know that the technology gods were not smiling on us. Our taping location at De Anza Community College suffered a severe network outage just as George and Joan were starting their webcast. After half an hour of troubleshooting, it became clear that the network was going to be down for a while, so we made the tough decision to scrub the live broadcast.

We did tape it, and so you can now watch the archive now, or listen to the podcast version. George and Joan were hoping to get some good questions, and will be happy to respond via email to questions from folks who listen to the archive. The PowerPoint that they used can be downloaded here.

Posted by eileen o'shea at 3:13 PM in Webcasts | Permalink | Comments (0)

Helene gave a great webcast yesterday on all things Web 2.0, with an emphasis on what library managers need to be thinking about regarding Web 2.0 technologies. She mentioned a del.icio.us bookmark file, and we wanted to get that out to people. Here it is: http://del.icio.us/Web4Managers.

The archive of the webcast is up and ready for viewing.

Posted by eileen o'shea at 7:52 AM in Web 2.0 | Webcasts | Permalink | Comments (0)

Infopeople is sponsoring a webcast by Helene Blowers of the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County, Charlotte, North Carolina at 3pm today entitled, Web 2.0: What Library Managers Need to Know. Helene was responsible for the amazing Learning 2.0 project, and also oversees both IT and Web Services for the PLCMC's 24 branch locations and 18 websites.

Infopeople's funding limits attendance at live webcasts to anyone in the California library community. If you are outside California, please do not register for the live event. However, you are welcome to see the archived version the day following the webcast. You can see our entire webcast archive listing at:
http://www.infopeople.org/training/webcasts/list/archived

Posted by eileen o'shea at 9:31 AM in Webcasts | Permalink | Comments (0)

The TED Conference mixes Technology, Entertainment and Design. The 2007 event was March 7-10 in Monterey and its focus was Icons, Geniuses and Mavericks.

As the San Francisco Chronicle put it, "Imagine going to school and learning how to tie your shoe correctly one moment and studying the rise of obesity the next. Then you might hear a 14-year-old piano virtuoso perform and improvise a piece on the spot, followed by a talk on global warming. They are just some of the presentations that the 1,000 or so invitation-only attendees have been treated to each year at the four-day Ted Conference."

You can listen to the fascinating talks, both audio and video, online or on your iPod FREE through iTunes. Examples of those featured are plyaright/actor Anne Deavere-Smith, Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, and rock star/activist Bono.

If you found TED 2007 intriguing, be sure to check out The Big Questions to be answered at TED 2008, February 27 - March 1, 2008 at the Monterey Conference Center.

Posted by gail mcgovern at 11:47 AM in Conferences | People | Podcasts | Webcasts | Permalink

If you missed the SirsiDynix online Mashups presentation by Darlene Fichter, be sure to take a look at it and the resulting Frappr map

Here's the description of the presentation.

Mashups : A Little Bit of This, A Little Bit of That

What's a mashup and why would I want one? Whether you're a reference librarian, library trainer, a library webmaster or teacher-librarian knowing about this new breed of web application is important. A "mashup" mixes content from independent sources to create something new. Many mashups are simple to create and require little technical know-how, allowing library staff and library users of all sorts to wave a magic wand and create something new. Jump on board and take a tour of interesting mashups, including some library examples, and explore the opportunities for libraries to remix library and other data sources to create new and innovative services. Take away tools that you can learn about and build mashups, for users or yourself, and recommended sites to learn more. Jump start your thinking on the new Web 2.0 ecosystem that relies on symbiotic relationships and communities rather than "monolithic systems" or the "kindness of strangers".

Darlene Fichter is the Head of the Indigenous Studies Portal and Coordinator of Data Library Services at the University of Saskatchewan Library. Darlene is particularly interested in the area of human computer interaction and designing positive user experiences. She has been a consultant and project manager for several web site, portal, digital library and intranet projects. Darlene is also columnist for Online magazine and a frequent conference speaker about new and emerging information technologies.

Posted by gail mcgovern at 8:45 AM in Cool Tools | Web 2.0 | Webcasts | Permalink

Be sure to let your customers know that Nolo Press has podcasts online. You can listen at the site, download a file using iTunes or subscribe via RSS. As of February 1, there were 52 topics available in the following categories

• Legal News
• Business and Human Resources
• Patents, Copyright and Art
• Wills and Estate Planning
• Property and Money
• Family Law and Immigration
• Rights and Disputes

Then, be sure you are up to date by taking advantage of upcoming Infopeople free hour-long webcasts on legal issues.

Youth Access for Information and Age-Based Policies with Mary Minow and Janis O'Driscoll on March 1 from 12-1

Privacy Issues: RFID, Patron Holds, RSS Feeds, Personalized Reading Lists, Etc. with Mary Minow and Lori Bowen Ayre on April 5 from 12-1

Religious Issues in Libraries with Mary Minow on May 3 from 12-1

Posted by gail mcgovern at 6:52 AM in Training | Web Resources | Webcasts | Permalink

State Librarian Susan Hildreth discusses what's happening at the California State Library in this podcast of her Dec 12, 2006 webcast.

Topics she touches on include: her recent trip to Washington D.C. to attend ALA's National Library Agenda Summit, additional LSTA funds for 2006/07, plans for a new Infopeople workshop series called "Moving Libraries Forward to Web 2.0," and the California State Library blog.

You can download the slides that accompanied her talk here. You can also view the archive of the original webcast from this page.

The podcast is 44 minutes long. It's also available on Infopeople's iTunes channel (see the sidebar link on the right, or just search the iTunes Store for "infopeople").

Posted by eileen o'shea at 10:42 AM in Keeping Up | Podcasts | Web 2.0 | Webcasts | Permalink | Comments (0)

Back in May of 2006 the Rural Initiative hosted, "An Evening with Nancy Pearl," who, you may know, is the real life inspiration for the Librarian Action Figure. Anyway, due to technical difficulties, the archive of this neat event was delayed until - you guessed it! - now. So without further ado, we give you - An Evening with Nancy Pearl in Quicktime or Real!

Posted by eileen o'shea at 6:44 PM in Webcasts | Permalink

The archive of Mary Minow's July 11 webcast, Collection Policies that Stave Off Lawsuits, is now available for viewing. Yay! Expect the podcast version tomrrow.

That's the good news. The bad news is that the archive of our July 18 webcast, Using PDAs in Libraries, also encountered tehnical difficulties and won't be available until the week of July 24.

So it goes.

Posted by eileen o'shea at 9:55 AM in Webcasts | Permalink

Due to a power outage at de Anza College, where we film the infopeople webcasts, the archive of Mary Minow's July 11 webcast, Collection Policies that Stave Off Lawsuits will not be available until early next week. That means the podcast will also be delayed. Sorry about that!

Posted by eileen o'shea at 8:58 AM in Infopeople News | Webcasts | Permalink

We've just picked up from the Califa Newsletter, the news that the College of Dupage is producing two free (to all) webcasts, sponsored by ALA, on June 2 and June 9th from 9am to 10:30am California time.

The first program on June 2 is Information Literacy: Reaching At-Risk High School and Community College Students with John Berry and a panel of school, community college and academic librarians.

The second program on June 9 is Confronting the Crisis in Library Education with ALA President Michael Gorman. Mr. Gorman and a panel of librarians and educators will explore the questions: Are today's library education programs doing an adequate job of training the next generation of librarians? Is there really a crisis in library education? Library educators, administrators seeking qualified candidates, recent library school graduates looking for that first job, and current or future library school students, are invited to share their unique perspective on this topic that is of vital interest to our profession.

Posted by carole leita at 8:36 AM in Webcasts | Permalink

After all the trial and error I've gone through getting started with podcasting, I decided it would make sense to share this information, and maybe build a resource that others could use (why reinvent the wheel if you don't have to?). So, I have started a wiki on podcasting. Right now it's pretty minimal, just quick links to some handy stuff that I have found and use(d). Check it out here, and help it grow! Oh, and while I currently have mostly podcasting content, info on vodcasting will also be added/useful.

Posted by eileen o'shea at 9:54 AM in Podcasts | Web Resources | Webcasts | Permalink

Susan Hildreth's latest quarterly webcast took place today. You can view the archived webcast here, and we are also happy to provide it as a podcast. Check it out - Susan is always worth a listen (or two)!

Oh, and as an extra bonus, cuz we're just super swell that way, here are some links to items she mentioned in her webcast:

Open WorldCat
CalCat
Califa
Gates Staying Connected for California Libraries
PAC HUG
WebJunction
Spanish Language Outreach

Enjoy!

Posted by eileen o'shea at 4:15 PM in Podcasts | Webcasts | Permalink

Among the course webcast series being offered this term from UC Berkeley to all viewers/listeners is this jewel for librarians: Search Engines: Technology, Society and Business. Professor Marti Hearst of SIMS has managed to make such search luminaries as Sergey Brin, Hal Varian, Peter Norvig, and Mary Hodder available to her class and gotten their permission to video and record it for a future life as video- and pod-casts.

Other course offerings include intro classes in astronomy, biology, chemistry, computers, nutrition, anatomy, and physics, and, among others, a course in Buddhist psychology.

Posted by carole leita at 5:01 PM in Podcasts | Webcasts | Permalink