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What’s True of The Loop Is True of the Industry

ITI Bloggers — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:04:55 +0000

Ah, Chicago. Hog butcher, etc., etc. When I arrived yesterday afternoon I took a quick walk through The Loop, Chicago’s historic downtown district. I even stepped into the old Marshall Fields department store, which reminded me a lot of the old John Wanamaker department store in my hometown of Philadelphia. Both from the same era. [...]

Hello Chicago

ITI Bloggers — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:03:21 +0000

Greetings. I’m Dick Kaser, V.P. of Content at Information Today, Inc. and Executive Editor of Computers in Libraries magazine. I’m here in Chicago with my editorial colleagues, Barb Brynko, Kathy Dempsey and Marydee Ojala for this blog team’s most challenging assignment to date. As you can see from the sidebar list of archived conference blogs, we’ve [...]

Still Running

ITI Bloggers — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:56:14 +0000

Not having a fancy phone like Kathy, I’ve been plodding through the Event Planner. I do wish it had full session descriptions, not just the name, time, location, and ALA sponsor. Plus, it’s dropped me several times. As far as I can tell, much of what I’m interested in is at the conference center rather than [...]

We’re Ready to Hit the Ground Running (with help from Boopsie)

ITI Bloggers — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:56:13 +0000

It’s been barely 2 weeks since the Infotoday bloggers said goodbye at the end of SLA’s Annual Conference in DC. Yet it’s time to start up again, this time for ALA’s Annual in Chicago. And with a couple of personnel changes for this next show, we’re rarin’ to go. We officially begin our coverage on [...]

Next Year, New Orleans

ITI Bloggers — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:44:21 +0000

Time to say goodbye to Washington and look forward to next year’s SLA conference in New Orleans. But the Information Today blogging team is trying something new this year. For the first time, we’ll also be blogging at the American Library Association annual conference in Chicago. So tune in here starting July 11th for our [...]

Let The Good Times Roll

ITI Bloggers — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:39:53 +0000

With SLA in DC setting records for attendance, let’s hope that New Orleans can show us equally good numbers. Is it too early to think about #SLA2010 for the Twitter tag? Or to speculate about whether Twitter will still be the social networking tool of choice for SLAers? Certainly the party in Washington DC following [...]

What’s In a Name?

ITI Bloggers — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:49:19 +0000

As Gloria Zamora reminded me, the association now votes electronically, so SLA members won’t need to be in New Orleans to vote on any potential name change. Which is not a good reason to decide against attending next year’s conference, I should add! But what might our new name be? I joined the Special Libraries Association [...]

More Scenes From Around the Exhibit Hall

ITI Bloggers — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:21:44 +0000

The last morning before the exhibit hall closed, I had fun just cruising the aisles to catch some of the exhibitors I’d missed. In the process, I snapped some photos to capture a bit of the diversity. The Hoover’s robot was busy chatting up anyone who wandered by. He was quite an engaging fellow. He also [...]

Catchy Name! KnowItAll

ITI Bloggers — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:06:56 +0000

I kept seeing folks walk by with a green ribbon on their name tags-KnowItAll. A bit presumptuous I thought, but still kinda cool. So, I asked and then found the booth for Bio-Rad Laboratories, Informatics Division (www.knowitall.com). It seems the company has a unique resource for chemists called KnowItAll U that provides access to spectral [...]

Nature—Journal of the Century

ITI Bloggers — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:03:18 +0000

Nature (www.nature.com), the flagship journal of the Nature Publishing Group (NPG) was named ‘journal of the century’ by the SLA BioMedical & Life Sciences Division (DBIO). The award was presented at the annual DBIO business luncheon. The award was voted for by DBIO’s 686 members. Runners-up included the New England Journal of Medicine, Science, the [...]