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P.S. Join the EContent100 Winners at BSeC ‘09

ITI Bloggers — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:10:44 +0000

burgeraudio1mpg3 In accepting one of the EC100 Awards presented in London, CCC’s Bill Burger said: "We are really proud to receive this award, and we look forward to seeing everyone in Scottsdale." One of the things I personally enjoyed most about my visit to Online Information this year is the fact that I got to be [...]

Live from London 2008

ITI Bloggers — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:34:47 +0000

Thanks for joining us for Live from London 2008. Happy Holidays. We hope to see you here again next year.

Synthesizing Online Impressions

ITI Bloggers — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:30:07 +0000

It’s been a week since Online Information ended and I confess it’s taken me this long to synthesize my impressions of this year’s conference. It’s always a kaleidoscopic conference, with the full conference programme in a different part of Olympia from the exhibit floor and the various free presentation rooms. Back at the beginning of [...]

EUSIDIC

ITI Bloggers — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 06:13:36 +0000

EUSIDIC was supposed to share the CLSIG booth this year, but with Johan van Halm’s death in September, the future of the association is up in the air. On Wednesday afternoon, Oriole Newgass announced that the EUSIDIC conference that was to be held next year in Zurich is cancelled. Oddly, none of the EUSIDIC board [...]

Conference Programme, Day Three

ITI Bloggers — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 06:08:07 +0000

Thursday saw a shortened programme, with only two sessions in the three tracks and a closing keynote beginning after lunch and scheduled to end at 3.30 with the conference close. I had been looking forward to hearing Steve Arnold, with his very distinguished panel (Francois Bourdoncie from Exalead, Daud Kahn from Casenove, Martin White from [...]

Conference Programme, Day Two

ITI Bloggers — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 05:59:37 +0000

Since there was no overall keynote speaker for the second day of the full conference programme, there were four sessions in each of the three tracks. Tops were new ways of working (socialization, collaboration, and innovation), creating structure in the information universe, and information professionals. You’d think that in today’s recessionary environment, librarians would be down [...]

Conference Programme, Day One

ITI Bloggers — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 05:50:52 +0000

The full conference programme upstairs in Olympia was well-attended, although I saw fewer nationalities than in previous years. The sessions themselves were, mainly packed. As in past years, there were three tracks, each with a different theme. The breaks between sessions, however, were longer, probably designed to allow delegates to go down to the exhibition [...]

Bring On Those Ebooks

ITI Bloggers — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:18:22 +0000

The session on Ebooks–Finally Gaining Traction was standing room only Thursday morning, as Robin Hunt, research fellow at CIBER at the University College London, led with his rapid-fire talk and slide show to the packed audience about the "death of print" and the emergence of ebooks. "The ebook," he says, "is the elephant in the room" [...]

My Chat with Ian Russell & Ending on a Semantic Note

ITI Bloggers — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:02:46 +0000

ALPSP’s Ian Russell Yesterday I had the opportunity to meet for the first time ALPSP’s "new" executive director. Veteran publisher Ian Russell has actually been at his post at the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers for two (short) years now. I don’t seem to have taken a picture of him. (Hmmm. ???) So I hope [...]

Time Travel

ITI Bloggers — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:25:45 +0000

Rossella Proscia, marketing director at Cengage Learning EMEA, turned back the hands of time during a tour of the State Papers Online, one of Gale/Cengage Learning’s latest research resources. The State Papers Online brings primary documents from the British government (1509-1714) to life. When the four-part project is completed in 2011, users will have access to nearly [...]