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Posts from June 2007

ALA 2007: Top Tech Trends

At the ALA Top Tech Trends Panel, panelists including Marshall Breeding, Roy Tennant, Karen Coombs, and John Blyberg discussed RFID, open source adoption in libraries, and the importance of privacy. Marshall Breeding, director for innovative technologies and research at Vanderbilt University Libraries (TN), started the Top Tech Trends panel by referencing his LJ Automation Marketplace [...]


Presenting at ALA panel on Future of Information Retrieval

The Future of Information Retrieval Ron Miller, Director of Product Management, HW Wilson, hosts a panel of industry leaders including: Mike Buschman, Program Manager, Windows Live Academic, Microsoft. R. David Lankes, PhD, Director of the Information Institute of Syracuse, and Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University. Marydee Ojala, Editor, ONLINE, and contributing feature [...]