SLA Kentucky Chapter

Professionals & Web 2.0

I found this Law Librarian Blog post interesting.  CCH performed a research study and the conclusion I found most telling is that while legal professionals are adopting Web 2.0 tools, peer-reviewed content is considered to become increasingly important.

The age of publishing on-line is here and ensuring that the content published maintains the same high standards that abound in scientific and professional markets is as important as ever.  I am interested in seeing the progress of peer-reviewed electronically created content.

Web 2.0 makes it easy for me to tell you what I am thinking without much of a monitor other than my own high professional standards and ethics.  That review piece of academic and professional publishing should not be ignored.

Librarian Shortage?

One of the most popular posts on this blog was a discussion of the so-called librarian shortage. This recent post on ACRLog from Stanley Wilder describes the increase in delayed retirements.  I expect the comments on that post will be quite interesting.

Intelligent Content

2009 has begun and a new year of conferences along with it.  Beyond Search alerted me to an interesting conference that actually goes beyond technology.

This small conference goes beyond search and actually takes Web 2.0 doctrines to the content.  The sessions will cover just a few things that I find interesting.

• Personalization
• Dynamic messaging
• Increased findability

The venue and the networking events seem to be well designed to allow for maximization of networking events.  I was especially intrigued by the Birds of a Feather dinners that Ms. Rockley described.

Another interesting component of this conference is the mentor relationship explained by Ms. Rockley for the presenters.  Will this truly provide quality control to the entire conference.  If you get a chance to go I'd be interested to hear back from you about your experience.

Constance Ard
Answer Maven

Fifteen Minutes of Fame (in Second Life)

At the SLA Annual Conference in Seattle, several lucky Second Life avatars (my alter ego, Buffy Alcott, included) were fortunate enough to introduce Vint Cerf and Charlie Rose for the opening general session.  As Jill mentions in this post, it was rather complicated to put together this short video clip which ran on the monitors prior to Cerf and Rose taking the stage.  It was a neat experience, and I'm glad we did it.