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The first session of the day is a session on visualization. The first presenter, Brad Eden, showed a rather dizzying array of different sorts of visualizations — up to and including “virtual Vaudeville” (http://www.virtualvaudeville.com/), which simulates an actual Vaudeville show from the early 20th century.… Read the rest
Greetings from Austin! I’m having a good time at my first LIS conference. It’s been a lot of fun to meet students from so many other schools, and I’m amazed at how international the conference is. I have seen people from Japan, Finland, Australia, Ireland, India…
I’ve created a page on our wiki for the notes I’ve taken during sessions.… Read the rest
This is my first time at an ASIS&T conference, and so far it’s been an interesting experience. I don’t have a lot of time right now (wireless access at the hotel costs $10/day, and we’ve opted not to pay the fee, so myself, Ellen, Brittany and Jen have only the time we’re at the apartment we’re staying in to be online), so this will be very brief and impressionistic.… Read the rest
The I-School Movement was discussed by a panel of five this morning, which included our very own Dean Michele Cloonan. They discussed various topics across the I-School movement, including whether or not it was a good idea, the benefits of the movement, and what it should be called or encompass.… Read the rest
Yesterday was my first day as a volunteer and I found the experience somewhat exhausting. I was positioned in the Placement Center directly under an air conditioning vent for four hours and was, at the end of the day convinced of two things: My eyes were dry and they did not advertise the Center in an efficient manner.… Read the rest
