CLA Emerging Technologies Interest Group

Access 2011 goes west!

ae-j — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 17:30:07 +0000

Congratulations to Vancouver for winning the bid to host Access 2011! The conference will be held from October ~~5-8~~ 19-22 at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver. Your Access 2011 host committee is made up of members from a number of institutions:

Watch this space for more info on Access 2011 as it becomes available. And see you in Vancouver in October 2011!

Feliciter issue on emerging technologies

amy — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:08:32 +0000

Hi everyone – since Amanda and I were the guest editors for the recent Feliciter issue (vol. 56 no. 5), and since the CLA allows all authors to repost their articles (Creative Commons licenses FTW!), here’s a collection of the featured articles for the issue.

Theme: Emerging technologies in libraries

Emerging technology as an enabler (guest editorial) – Amy Buckland & Amanda Etches-Johnson

A user experience primer – Cecily Walker

Building communities with large group methods and social media – Ryan Deschamps

Using a local chat server in your library – John Fink

Libraries evolve to stay connected: Building the YourLibrary iPad app – Rob Zylstra & Stephanie Thero

Livres numériques: le papier est la meilleure platforme – Patrick M. Lozeau

Thanks to everyone involved – especially the awesome folk at the CLA head office!

Access 2011 needs a home!

ae-j — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:16:26 +0000

The Emerging Technologies Interest Group is now accepting applications to host Access 2011!

Check out the hosting guidelines and previous host websites. Applications are due by November 15, 2010.

If you have any questions about hosting, or about the submission process, feel free to get in touch!

Access 2010: go!

ae-j — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:09:51 +0000

Folks! If you haven’t yet registered for Access 2010, you still have time. Access is Canada’s premier library tech conference and this year’s program looks stellar (click the tabs at the top to see the program for each day).

Run, don’t walk, to get registered!

Call for papers – Access 2010

amy — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:45:06 +0000

The call for papers is out for Access 2010 in Winnipeg, October 13-16, 2010. [Check out their drupalicious site!]

a new application of existing technology

user design / usability testing

anything mobile

open source

something really new

geo-tagging, geo-blogging, anything geo

semantic web

digital collections

teaching and learning

ebooks and libraries

If you made it to Access 2009 in PEI, we fully expect to see you in Winnipeg this October. And if you missed Access 2009, do yourself a favour and come this year!

Access 2010

ae-j — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:09:14 +0000

We’ve got official word on Access 2010!

When: October 13-16, 2010
Where: Hotel Fort Garry, Winnipeg Manitoba
Who: Hosted by the University of Manitoba

See you in Winnipeg in 2010!

Congrats to UPEI for Access2009

amy — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:06:46 +0000

Mark Leggott and his team did a killer job, and organized one heckuva great conference.
Check out the presentations from Access 2009 and enjoy!

Access 2009 Travel Grant

ae-j — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:53:28 +0000

Planning on attending Access 2009? Need a little help getting there? ETIG can help!

We have a $500 travel grant available to members of ETIG to help you get to PEI this fall. Simply send us a message letting us know you’re interested in the grant and we will draw one winner from all applicants (names-in-a-hat style). Email us at:

amybuckland AT gmail.com
etchesjohnson AT gmail.com

Deadline to apply is September 5, 2009.

And If no one applies? Well then the Access2009 Travel Grant becomes the ETIG Convenor Beer Fund! (OK, we can’t really do that. So apply!)

ETIG Library Camp FTW!

amy — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:08:08 +0000

Whew!

What a great day – I’m still reeling.

Notes from the camp session and all of the presentations (a big thanks to Jason, John, and Jessamyn – ya, there’s a theme there) are on the wiki.

Amanda and I are pretty sure we’re going to try and make this a yearly thing – so see you in Edmonton in 2010!

still time to sign up for ETIG Library Camp!

amy — Wed, 20 May 2009 04:12:17 +0000

We’re about 10 days away from the ETIG Library Camp (Friday, May 29 @ McGill) and things are gearing up nicely: the schedule for the day is up, we’ve got three fun speakers lined up for the morning (Jessamyn West, John Fink, Jason Hammond), we already have some great suggestions for an interesting & informative afternoon, and there are all sorts of awesome folks signed up who I can’t wait to meet/see again!

If you’re in the area and haven’t signed up yet, we still have space for about 15-20 more, so head over to the wiki and register. We’ve even got a neat treat for every attendee, but you’ll have to register & show up to find out what it is (as if you needed further enticements)!