NEASIST Events

more presentation and handout links

If you'd like a refresher and haven't yet downloaded a copy of the speaker handouts and presentations in PDF format, it's not too late:

Megan Fox:
bibliography
presentation for on-screen viewing and printable version

Jenny Levine:
presentation

Michael Stephens:
bibliography
presentation for on-screen viewing and in printable form

Megan's NEASIST Presentation as Blogged by Jenny

Megan sez:

90% of college students have cell phones! I’m curious how many people in this room have cell phones. Maybe I’ll remember to ask.

Technolust – I Want: the Vulcan Flipstart and the OQO! (Michael and I said, “I want one!” at the same time. 

Health and medical industries are driving mobile content.

Blogs are no longer cutting edge when they appear on the cover of BusinessWeek.

Showed Panlibus as a vendor blog – congrats to Talis for the mention. This is what blogging gets you as a business. 

Simmons webmaster has embedded Movable Type into the MySimmons portal (yay, Simmons webmaster!).

Great minds think alike – Megan includes screenshots from some of the blogs I have in my upcoming presentation!

When Megan said some people are declaring that email is dead because of RSS, someone in the audience applauded. 

Megan is an iTunes user – her screenshost show the app open in the taskbar! This makes Michael happy, I’m sure.

RSS feed mentions for Kansas City PL and Hennepin County Library. I will show these, too, as will Michael, I think, so conisder them the leaders in this area, best practices! This kind of attention is what you get when you take the lead.

Showing Talis’ Personalized RSS (PRSS) – another score for Talis!

Megan is showing Library ELF and she says it will work for you assuming your library participates. That’s not actually true, because as a user I can sign up my library without their knowledge. Scared yet? Providing RSS feeds of patron data yet?

Megan is also asking for RSS from Innovative!

Thank heavens she is covering podcasting, because I couldn’t fit it in to my already bulging presentation. Greg gets highlighted for his Open Stacks library podcast. Yay, Greg! This is what you get when you take a new topic, figure out how librarians can use it, and run with it!

Schoolhouse Rock gets a mention for podcasting - good for them!

Showing Aaron’s TFML audio review by teens. Yay, Aaron!

Wiki not Wookie – big laugh

Campuses Library Council at the University of South Carolina wiki gets a shoutout – yay CLC at USC!

What would batgirl do from U of Winnipeg wiki – I’ll show this, too! Yay, U of Winnipeg!

(Check Megan’s bibliography for all of the links.)

(I’ve just posted my first IM message to the wrong window for the day….)

Meredith’s wiki for the the Annual ALA conference – yay, Meredith! I’m going to be able to blow right through the blogs and wikis section of my talk; thanks, Megan! Now I can concentrate on the other parts. 

Showing some live reference interactions on IM and chat! Yay, Megan!!!!! She’s noting this as the primarcy communication method by college students and younger. So true. 

Showing HarperCollins.com service “IM to a friend.” Sweet!

She’s showing my Homer Township Public Library – yay, HTPLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Southern Illinois University’s DAWGTEL text messaging service – yay SIU!!

Library toolbars – nice! She’s not showing it, but she mentions her famous screenshot of every toolbar turned on.

Deskbars – pulling together everything for search on your desktop (email, IM transcripts, etc.)

Bookmarklets – starts with LibraryLookup. Yay, Jon Udell!

Too funny – Megan uses “The Da Vinci Code” as her book example, too!

Showing YahooQ button for your browser. Cool – I’m not familiar with this one. See, we’re all learning something new! Yahoo’s My Web and A9, too.

Social bookmark managers and metadata - she’s showing Aaron’s photos of new titles. Yay again for Aaron!

Question: know of any libraries linking to snippets of music to advertise their collections?
Megan: audio ebooks, music e-reserves

Question: is the Mac compatible with a lot of this stuff?
Megan: works well mostly for the web stuff, but not the desktop stuff

Great job, Megan!