Library 2.0 in Action

The Toronto Chapter of the SLA is presenting Library 2.0 in Action: How Special Librarians are actually using the latest tech tools:

Blogs, RSS Feeds, RSS Readers, Podcasts, Wikis and more…Hear how your colleagues are using the latest information tools in their special library settings. Learn some tips and tricks for dealing with firewall issues and budget constraints, etc.

Our own Connie Crosby along with Amanda Etches-Johnson (blogwithoutalibrary.net), Carolyne Sidey (Carolyne’s pages of interest) and Dave Hook (The Industrial Librarian) are asking the hard questions and giving a whole lot of useful answers. Check out Connie’s Resources Page, for example.

What is very cool is that they’re using a wiki (in this case pbwiki, aka peanut butter wiki) to set up and blog the conference. Why is it that librarians are leagues ahead of lawyers in this sort of thing? Huh?

Comments

  1. a head start on the geek quotient? ;-)

    This is one of the times I wish I was back in TO. That’s one formidable line-up!

  2. Yeah, the wiki came about because sometime three weeks ago I woke up and decided that day to organize half the things in my life with wikis…as a few people in Toronto here will tell you.

    I must say, I had a *blast* at the session. It was a packed room with over 50 people at 6 big tables. Most of the presentation was from the wiki itself, with a couple of PowerPoints thrown in. There was lots of energy and enthusiasm, and I met a lot of great people.

    At the end of the session we were asked if everyone could have access to the wiki to play, so participants will be given the password to add their own pages and resources and try it out.

    Cheers,
    Connie