Dispatches from the Field

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

I am on the Annual Meeting Committee for AM07 in Milwaukee, so we had a business lunch in one of the hotel restaurants and planned strategy (keynote speakers, session types, sponsorship, and so on). It’s a great bunch, and I am looking forward to next year already.… Read the rest