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CIL Notes: Next-Gen Digital Reference Tools

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Reference 2.0 is mobile, digital, and social. We need to maximize the combination of these.
–Joe Murphy

Breakneck tour of the state of digital reference. I’m a little overwhelmed by Madeline Kriescher (implementation strategies), Joe Murphy (futurecasting), and Jan Johansson’s (data and visualization) state of the industry. The whole thing leaves me with a lot of questions, [...]

Liveblogging Someone Else’s Liveblog

Monday, January 26th, 2009

I didn’t go to ALA Midwinter this year. (Actually, I’ve never attended Midwinter. )But now that I’ve been reading the writeups on the various conference proceedings, I kind of wish I had.
I’m particularly taken by David Lee King’s summary of Marshall Breeding’s talk on Next Generation Library Interfaces. We’re hard at work at implementing a [...]

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