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		<title>ASIST conference in Austin and the Blogs and Wiki Workshop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arrived late yesterday&#8230;luckily my hotel is very close to a few restaurants..sampled my first authentic Austin breakfast burrito and watched the original Ugly Betty (Betty la Fea) before going to bed very early.  I&#8217;m speaking at a panel workshop on the use of blogs and wikis as conference communications tools this afternoon.  I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a Library Thing..</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A little ATCQ reference&#8230;Tim Spalding has just begun talking about some of the social information content within Library Thing&#8230;They even make room for user-submitted covers&#8230;Tim Spalding&#8217;s Author Gallery. All publicly available or permission granted.  Spalding views Library Thing as a wikipedia like catalog&#8212;all user generated content can be changed by users &#8212; and thinks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LibXing from the conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Godmar and Annette have been talking about scalabilty and modularity&#8230;Nicole mentioned a book called Design Rules: The Power of Modularity by Brown and Clark..I just used PC&#8217;s test edition to have the book held at my library&#8230;.Lunch time!
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		<title>Money money money money..!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[IMLS has awarded Annette and Godmar a National Leadership Grant to support the development of LibX over the next two years&#8230;.They will be making an Edition builder interface so that libraries can build their own editions.  Check this&#8230;Virginia Tech is still only using IE. Annette &#038; Godmar plan to build a plug-in for IE..They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Godmar Back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Godmar is discussing the functionality of the LibX plugin and OpenURL technology&#8230;applause when he dragged the title of an article from a bibiliography on a pdf document to Google Scholar and the window opened up to the new source.  Discussing &#8220;cues&#8221; now&#8230;
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		<title>Go forth and embed&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m at our NEASIST program today&#8230;SOLD OUT!! Annette Bailey is up now talking about LibX.  LibX actually came about when she was interviewing for jobs last year. Bailey wanted to have something cool and useful to wow prospective employers.  Annette and Godmar&#8217;s initial conversations included the LibX tool&#8217;s potential as a &#8220;virtual librarian.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Camping We Will Go&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Library Camp East is underway&#8230;Lichen is keeping us in the know on her very prettyful blog.  I wish I could hear Casey Bisson&#8217;s OPAC discussion.  He&#8217;s my Innovative hero&#8230;I know, it&#8217;s too early in the week for puns.  My consortium upgraded to III&#8217;s WebOpac version over the summer and I am on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edificeref.info/?p=87</link>
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		<title>Fall ramblings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It feels very silly firing off an &#8220;I&#8217;m baaaaaaaaaaaaaack&#8221; post, since I&#8217;ve been &#8220;gone&#8221; for a long time and even I managed to forget about the blog I started in earnest last March. But what&#8217;s a blog/journal for if you can&#8217;t post a mea culpa every now and again?  I think I&#8217;ll make this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some final impressions of the ASIST conference in Charlotte</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I attended so many stimulating sessions and can say that after a second year of sitting in on one of Karen Fisher&#8217;s presentations, I realized that attending an ASIST conference means I can get to hear about her most recent research.  This year I attended the &#8220;Information Grounds&#8221; session.  Like many other people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edificeref.info/?p=85</link>
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		<title>Tips for Ending PowerPointlessness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Free webcast on Thursday, November 10th (3-4pm) from the Blended Librarian folks&#8230;http://home.learningtimes.net/library.  I&#8217;ll be tuning in for this.
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		<link>http://edificeref.info/?p=83</link>
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