Tuesday, September 17, 2002

The New Librarians: The new librarians [LISNews.com] are here!  LISNews links to an article in the Montreal's The Gazette about the new librarians graduating from Canada's LIS programs and their distinctive skill sets. 11:23:49 AM

CLS Staff  to Present at the ILA Conference: CLS staff will be some of the many great speakers at next week's ILA Conference.  Kathryn Deiss's presentation "The Art of Mentoring, or Move Over, Obi-Wan" is scheduled for Tuesday, September 24 as a pre-conference.  Veronda Pitchford will be moderating a pre-conference with Emily Guss of the Chicago Public Library on Tuesday, September 24.  Their pre-conference is a rockin' bus tour called "Exploring Library Service in and to Ethnic Communities Bus Tour."  Veronda also will be sharing her experiences working and visiting South Africa's libraries as part of the panel for the program, entitled "Masifunde Sonke and Bibliotecas Para Todos: Building A Nation of Readers," on Friday afternoon, September 27. Teri Ross Embrey will help you sync up to the latest in technology as part of two panel presentations.  The first, entitled "From Pocket to Palm: Hotsync Yourself to the Latest Information on Handheld Computers and Libraries" with Jenny Levine and Tom Peters, is scheduled for the morning of Wednesday, September 25.  The second program, entitled "The Forecast for Tomorrow Is... Top Tech Trends in Illinois and Beyond" with Tom Peters and Matt Gullett, will occur mid-day on Thursday, September 26. 10:00:34 AM

Join SLS This Week In Classes to Help With Your Information Shifting: "Learn How To Shift Your Library!. If you're a librarian in the Chicagoland area, there is still time to register for two good workshops we're holding at SLS this week..." [The Shifted Librarian] SLS still has spaces available.  The classes are "Reference Without Boundaries" and "Wireless Networks in the Library." 9:45:47 AM

One Step Closer to  Wireless Nirvana: "PalmSource ships Web browser. The subsidiary of Palm begins shipping a Web browser to licensees of its operating system, as it tries to distinguish itself from Palm's mostly hardware history." [CNET News.com] It is probably going to be another 3 to 10 years before the world goes totally wireless.  But browsers for handhelds and other Internet devices are helping to speed up that timeline.  9:26:55 AM

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