Vision-ary Committee

I’m on my way to the Internet Librarian conference in San Jose, sitting next to a supply-chain manager for Cisco who lives in California, manages an operation in Austin, and also one in Malaysia, while I look through subjects at the conference in the program.

And by the way, she’s reading The World is Flat!

So far, in looking through the conference program, I have already found sessions on using ipods, blogs, RSS, wikis, and ebooks in schools and libraries, a website about teaching global issues, a tour of social networking sites(i.e. myspace and facebook), and sessions on how to improve webpage design.    Engineers from Google and Microsoft are  part of a panel speaking in an evening session about “academic search” (i.e. searching for scholarly articles) and how that area is being completely transformed because of Google, etc,, and what are the changes ahead for libraries and publishers because of that.    And that’s all only the first day!   I’m going to be learning a lot.

I’ll share what I’m learning as I have time by posting to the blog! –Carolyn