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GLA / COMO 2008

So, who's going to GLA/COMO '08? For the first time in FOREVER it seems, I am not presenting. How'd that happen? ;-)

Instead, I'm on the ballot (unopposed) to Chair the Professional And Continuing Education Interest Group (PACE, that is)

The problem I always have with conferences is whether to go support my friends/colleagues/coworkers or whether I should only go to those that interest me, or well, those that sound like fun. I try to hit the middle ground! ;-)

I'm going to the 'Taking on Technology Preconference' (sounds like fun!) on Weds. and then I hit the choices:

Thurs Oct. 16

8 a.m. Do I go see Tessa and my tech services colleagues at Ask Technical Services (I'm a member of the IG) or Toby Graham's Georgia History and Culture: The Civil Rights Digital Library (for which I do metadata)? Buffy Hamilton's Harnessing Web2.0 Tools to Enhance your Professional Knowledge sounds cool, too. I'm leaning towards the CRDL one, though!

10 a.m. The New Georgia Encyclopedia: Accessibility, Authority, and Why Metadata Matters, Kristy Dixon I wrote a few articles for NGE, so I think I'll go to this, especially since Metadata is one of my favorite topics.

11 a.m. My life in Pictures (or should I say picture books) Grady Thrasher III, Children's author discusses how he turned his "dream to reality." I'm going to this one for you know, when I have nothing else on my todo list, and I start writing that children's novel finally.

1:40 Cataloging Sound Recordings with Adam Kubrik (MARC! Cataloging!) or fellow moonshine writer, Andrew Shuping's Free! Alternatives to Expensive Technology (I like Free!) or more on the NGE and the DLG: History and Culture: New Georgia Encyclopedia and Digital Library of Georgia. or the Image as Message: Visual Literacy for Deep Learning (Dave Chaterjee, Emy Decker, and Monica Pereira). which sounds cool or Intro to FRBR (Debra Skinner) because well, it's FRBR. ;-)

2:40 I'll either sit in a colleagues presentation, or perhaps, I will call it a day and check out the exhibits!

Thursday evening I'm heading to the Professional & Continuing Ed's dinner and election at East West.

Friday, Oct. 17
8am Decisions, decisions! Advances in Scholarly Communication and Institutional Repositories in Georgia (Rebecca Drummond, Sara Fuchs) or Revolutionary Cataloging: the 2.0 Difference for School Libraries Mary Ann Fitzgerald (is this all about librarything? VuFind? What? I want to know...) I'm leaning towards the IR one, though

10AM I'll either sit in a colleagues presentation, or perhaps, meet up with some folks for a chat.
11AM Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World (Cal Shepard)
Whew. Feel free to drop me a line if you'd like to grab a cup of coffee somewhere along the way.
oh, and I have a couple of pieces of artwork for the Hubbard Scholarship -- more on that later. These are largish mixed media on canvas works which would work really well in an office or library.

new art, new writings, new music -- it's moonshine!

Lots of new writings, new art, new music. I'm finishing up my art interviews with artists (the creativity series) and a short (!) book review.
Oh, and of course, the cover graphic is mine. ;-)



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These are the dog days of summer, is it any wonder that everything seems to droop a little? Stay inside in the cool and check out the latest writings, music, paintings, photography... Moonshine celebrates a milestone, which would not be possible without the wonderful artists and writers who share their thoughts, writings, and art. Read, see, and listen!

ORIGINAL WRITINGS
Part 1 of Jasmine Rizer's serial, "Keeping it in the Family"; Fab Irony's "Oz Redux", and McCabe Coolidge continues his series, Seven Questions with
"Don't you Miss the Farm?" Thoughtful poetry from Brenda L Basham (Bloodshed of the Holocaust; Imagination; and Unlock the Power ), Russell Lee Hale I (Knobby Knees; Memories ), John S Moon (World ) and Sandy Vanderbleek (life flow ).

FROM THE STUDIO
Studio views features Sandra Babb's essay on improvisation, Rolling with the Punch Bowl and Hannah Leatherbury's audio interview (a podcast) with multi-media artist Sherry Lynn Wood about her latest project to collect mantras via her Mantra Trailer. (courtesy of the Southern Arts Federation).

ON CREATIVITY AND THE CULTURE OF ART
robin fay continues to explore Creativity (pt. 5 in a series, focusing on the artistic process) while Drék Davis explores his own Confessions of a Wayward Artist. Amber Moore jumps into the playful and educational world of the Children's Museum of the Shoals in Look and DO Touch: Children Learn with Hands-On Activities in Florence, Alabama.

ART & TECHNOLOGY
Lori Lejeune gets creative with 3D digital art in From the Studio: An Exposition on 3-d Digital Artistry and Donna Rosser aka The Barefoot Photographer shows us how to take our photos to the next level with Lensbaby in Getting Creative: Your Photography and a Lensbaby.

REVIEWS
Book reviews for August are Southern Comforts: Rooted in a Florida Place by Suyde Cauthen, a memoir of growing up in the South, and Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen, a magical novel set in North Carolina. Music matters features a review of The Rest of the Year , the new CD from the Georgia folk trio, the Solstice Sisters. Hannah Leatherbury talks with Charles "Wsir" Johnson about the necessity of knowing how to repair and create his own instruments while living in a rural community as well as his experience getting commissioned by Chuck D. (from Hannah Leatherbury, courtesy of the Southern Arts Federation).

Check in with a Short Girl comix, book reviews, work from the Southerncreativity gallery (@ Flickr), art announcements & calls for entries.

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GOLD/GALILEO review

Friday (8/1/08) I attended the GOLD/GALILEO Annual Users Group Conference. This conference gets better and better every year and I think the session offerings get better, too.

The keynote speaker was funny and enthusiastic (Cliff Landis) -- always a plus. I attended a session on website redesign, blogging, and the third, on the GALILEO Institutional Repository project.

The first session was on website redesign. I attended this because it is always interesting to me to see how someone else approaches redesign. I've done a few redesigns in the corporate and freelance world and I've assisted (minimally, just feedback) on the UGA Libs website. Most interesting and somewhat unexpected was a brief discussion on content management systems. I would have liked to have heard more about content management systems, but I understand the topic was simple web re-design. ;-)

The second session I attended was essentially blogging basics, which I also attended out of curiosity. I'm always looking for new ideas in library blogging to pitch to the Web Advisory Group (WAG) and the Blog Subcommittee (and now, DYG, the Dynamic Content Group), for the Libraries' News & Events. I'm currently working on widgetizing our stylesheet, and fixing a few minor stylistic things which do not work so well in the latest upgrades. The new style is going to be a radical and much needed upgrade.

I'm also teaching my own "Blogging Basics" workshop at the end of the month for the UGA Web Editors Group (Dweebs).

So, although I've taught or presented several blogging basics sessions/classes, I thought it might be good to see how others do it. Anyhow, overall, it was interesting and I got a couple of ideas which might work for the News & Events blog. I thought Jonathan Harwell did an excellent job of expressing just how easy blogging is and how anyone REALLY can do it. As for the Dekalb County Public Library portion of the presentation, what I found most interesting was the kind of content they put into their blog -- it goes way beyond the scope of traditional library services. Yet, I can see how it makes for interesting and dynamic reading.

The third session was on the GALILEO Institutional Repository project which WHEN funded will collate scholarly works into a centralized resource center. Even thinking about what little content I generate, collating it has been a huge undertaking. All of my papers from graduate school are floating around on zip disks, floppy disks, and in some cases CDROMs. Ditto with most of my early presentations. Photos, screenshots of webdesigns... sigh -- some are in the original file formats, some completely unconvertable and unmigratable.
Anyhow, I can not imagine what a treasure trove the GKR would be for researchers, as well as others.

I'll update with links when I sit down with my notes. I should delicious'ed the url while I was sitting there in each of the sessions!

Collaborating in the Cloud (or maybe stuck in the quicksand...) [video]

Collaborating In The Cloud

view presentation (tags: collaboration library2.0)

Nice overview of distributed information, collaboration (Wired recently also has a great graphic about the hivemind vs. the individual brain, too) and web2.0 -- lots of the usual candidates (google products, del.icio.us, etc. etc.) but nicely organized.

One thing I am wondering though: What are the emerging technologies in libraries -- not the same ol' same old we've seen in presentation after presentation? Surely there are new things are the horizon (and drupal is not new, people...) Koha? Vufind? Endeca? Evergreen? Penntags? MTags? Those are all catalog or catalog related and some of those projects have been around for a while, too.

Second Life? Virtual worlds?
I don't know, are libraries really going to go there? 3D/Virtual worlds would seem to be the next evolution but considering the sheer computer power to run most of those, budget cuts, staff reductions, etc. I could see where staffing a 'real' reference desk would take priority.

Google maps mashups? Geo services?

Finally, am I just cranky or is lolcats on the way out? (please, let it be so... the cute factor is long gone....)