Monday at SLA
Jun. 4th, 2007 02:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rowanfI didn't have any vendor breakfasts lined up this morning so I got to sleep in (which was good because I was up way too late last night resynching my dead phone and talking to Spike). So my first session was a panel at 9am on the future of librarianship with Chris Lynch, Eugenie Prime & Stephen Abram moderated by Tom Hogan. It was interesting but predictable, eg half of MLIS students work in non-traditional jobs. During the question & answer section someone asked about Second Life and they all thought it (or something like it) was the wave of the future. Spike & I ran into Jill after the session. Her article on SL in the current issue of Information Outlook (which is in the packet of all 5,000+ attendees) is sure to keep that buzz going.
Then we went to Turning the Pages: Bringing our "Treasures" to Life Through Technology by the British Library about their initiative to digitize manuscripts and make them available to everyone for study. They have 15 books available at the moment including two da Vinci codices and the original handwritten Alice, Blackwell's Herbal and the Lindisfarne Gospels. They did a big thing with Vista and Bill Gates let his da Vinci notebook be digitized for the project. There are non-Vista viewers too and a Linux viewer is under development, he says. The Vista viewer he demoed with had lots of nice features including audio and pop up translations. In the case of the da Vinci notebooks you can reverse the mirror writing to make it readable (if you read Italian). They are licensing their software and it looks quite interesting.
I was going to head out and look for lunch whilst Spike went to a Medical Section program, "First, Do No Harm - Information, Teamwork and Patient Safety" which was a paid, box-lunch session. I noticed someone had put a tickdt to that session on the message board for free and decided to join her. It was a great program by Dr. Michael Leonard, Physician Leader for Patient Safety, Kaiser Permanente. He detailed some interesting studies on teamwork, communication (esp. hierarchy issues b/n nurses and doctors) and how to structure the workplace so that communication could be improved. He mentioned a health literacy site Ask Me 3 based on the three questions a patient should ask a heath care provider.
Then I went to "Vendor Licensing: Tackling the Contract and Budgeting Monster" but let after the first speaker because it was so obviously meant for people in very different situations than mine. His advice re negotiatinig with vendors was to go in with your own pre-written terms and all kinds of BATLA metrics about what you would accept. Uh-huh. One funny thing he said was "A budget is a method of worrying before as well as after you buy". I headed back to the hotel and dropped off my conference bag so I won't be carrying so much stuff for the rest of the day.
Now I'm off to caucus meetings, an SJSU SLIS reception and the Thompson vendor party. I am *not* staying up as late as I did last night!
Then we went to Turning the Pages: Bringing our "Treasures" to Life Through Technology by the British Library about their initiative to digitize manuscripts and make them available to everyone for study. They have 15 books available at the moment including two da Vinci codices and the original handwritten Alice, Blackwell's Herbal and the Lindisfarne Gospels. They did a big thing with Vista and Bill Gates let his da Vinci notebook be digitized for the project. There are non-Vista viewers too and a Linux viewer is under development, he says. The Vista viewer he demoed with had lots of nice features including audio and pop up translations. In the case of the da Vinci notebooks you can reverse the mirror writing to make it readable (if you read Italian). They are licensing their software and it looks quite interesting.
I was going to head out and look for lunch whilst Spike went to a Medical Section program, "First, Do No Harm - Information, Teamwork and Patient Safety" which was a paid, box-lunch session. I noticed someone had put a tickdt to that session on the message board for free and decided to join her. It was a great program by Dr. Michael Leonard, Physician Leader for Patient Safety, Kaiser Permanente. He detailed some interesting studies on teamwork, communication (esp. hierarchy issues b/n nurses and doctors) and how to structure the workplace so that communication could be improved. He mentioned a health literacy site Ask Me 3 based on the three questions a patient should ask a heath care provider.
Then I went to "Vendor Licensing: Tackling the Contract and Budgeting Monster" but let after the first speaker because it was so obviously meant for people in very different situations than mine. His advice re negotiatinig with vendors was to go in with your own pre-written terms and all kinds of BATLA metrics about what you would accept. Uh-huh. One funny thing he said was "A budget is a method of worrying before as well as after you buy". I headed back to the hotel and dropped off my conference bag so I won't be carrying so much stuff for the rest of the day.
Now I'm off to caucus meetings, an SJSU SLIS reception and the Thompson vendor party. I am *not* staying up as late as I did last night!
