Information Tyrannosaur

A few days ago I found out about a presentation tool called Prezi from my friend Becky who is doing some very cool things at the University of Dubuque in Iowa. She’s using Prezi as a tool to help with some of the dozens of research and information literacy classes that she teaches.
Unlike PowerPoint your ideas [...]

Saturday was another very busy one that started out with a 9am poster session for me. It started out a little slow as people trickled in. I kept trying to make eye contact and rope people into coming over and talking. I now know how vendors at the booths feel.
But after a little bit the [...]

A few days ago I presented the work that Jonathan (the web librarian) and I had done on getting an instant messaging reference service up and running at Edgewood. It went over very well and even some of the more luddite librarians thought that we could do this. There were a lot of [...]