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June 9, 2005
ALA 2005 program reports listing: OK, now you can look
I had a good deal of fun multitasking and collaborating with Luke the Librarian today. Last night, I did some tooling around with Luke's mockup, and we exchanged a few emails back and forth. While I was at the NOBLE Tech Expo, I was taking a few notes on my laptop and keeping an eye on my email. Most of what was being presented at the Tech Expo was not new to me (a story for another post), so as I was listening, I was having all sorts of fun formatting stuff (the sheer madness of converting text-to-table, tooling with data, then converting table-to-text, with some search-and-replace fun thrown in), then emailing stuff to and IMing with Luke. I left the expo, came home, got back on email and IM with Luke, and many back and forths later, the pages are up.
*Victory dance for techie librarians who collaborate.*
So here's the deal. The events have all been sorted by division/committee/roundtable/what-have-you acronym (with a link to a handy acronym list to help people decipher the acronym moon language), then within each section by date and time. We figured it would be easier, especially for readers not attending the conference, to look for reports by the group association than using a schedule that wouldn't help non-attendees. For each session listing, there's a link to a page for that session. Bloggers can link to their posts from specific session pages, and non-bloggers who would like contribute can create a new wiki page to write up their notes, then link to the wiki page from the session page.
The entry page for the Conference Reports section explains how things work in more detail, as well as encouraging bloggers and Flickr users to adopt the ALA2005 tag for their ALA 2005 content.
The theory is that if we built it, the librarians will populate it. Spread the word. :)
June 9, 2005 5:04 PM