Category Archives: Presenting

punypng

Posted on 24 September 2009 by Rick Mason

punypng is a great service for those who work with the .png image format.  If you work on web sites, presentations, or other projects that involve image files, this is really worth adding to your toolkit. What it does is … Continue reading →

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OLC Cancels Conference

Posted on 24 July 2009 by Rick Mason

The Ohio Library Council has announced that they are canceling their annual conference due to low expectations of attendance.  The organization surveyed library directors throughout Ohio and determined that most libraries simply don’t have the funds to participate. Is this … Continue reading →

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One Big Library Unconference Report (part 2)

Posted on 2 July 2008 by Rick Mason

continued from here… Evergreen and Project Conifer (John Fink) was a progress report / Q&A session about the installation of the Evergreen ILS for a consortium of academic libraries (McMaster University, University of Windsor, and Laurentian University). John gave a … Continue reading →

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One Big Library Unconference Report (part 1)

Posted on 2 July 2008 by Rick Mason

Previous posts here and here… I attended the One Big Library Unconference (Facebook too) last Friday, and haven’t had a chance to post about it yet, so here goes: I arrived in Toronto around 7 p.m. on Thursday after a … Continue reading →

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Wikipedia of Public Libraries – Presentation

Posted on 10 April 2007 by Rick Mason

The Wikipedia of Public Libraries : A quickie wiki primer, the PLWiki project, and You (pdf) is a presentation by Andrea Mercado, PLA Blog Manager, on wikis and how they can benefit libraries.   It contains a link to a request … Continue reading →

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Libraries and Open Source Software

Posted on 25 January 2007 by Rick Mason

Libraries facilitate open access to information with open source software is an interesting article posted on Linux.com. I have opened my Open Source Software and Libraries with the same observation that the open source movement and libraries share many of … Continue reading →

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Ten Do’s and Don’ts for Conference, Workshop, and Program Organizers

Posted on 21 September 2006 by Rick Mason

This list is from Rachel, aka The Liminal Librarian. The comments add a great deal of information beneficial to those of us who present, as well as those of us who organize conferences. At this moment, it is too much … Continue reading →

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Jessamyn

Posted on 22 August 2006 by Rick Mason

Jessamyn West did a couple of presentations for the library system that my library belongs to. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to attend (grrrrr… I have heard nothing but rave reviews for her presentations and would like to attend one someday), … Continue reading →

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