Monthly Archives: March 2010

Register now for the ITART & TSRT Spring Conference

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Registration is now open for the ITART & TSRT Spring Conference. Ebooks: Readers Wanted, to be held at Bellevue University on April 23, 2010. Cost is $20 for ITART or TSRT members and $25 for others.

We also have a virtual conference option – the morning sessions will be accessible by Internet – free to ITART or TSRT members, $5.00 for others. The afternoon session will follow an unconference model with topics for breakout sessions to be decided onsite.

Registration closes April 2nd so sign up today!

https://web.memberclicks.com/mc/quickForm/viewForm.do?orgId=nlia&formId=75653

Preliminary Program:

8:30 Registration & welcome
9:00 NLA Presidential address by Scott Childers
9:15 eBooks overview by Michael Sauers, ITART chair
10:00 break
10:15 Circulating e-book readers at UNO: What we know…for now by Joyce Neujahr
11:15 Vendor presentations
Noon lunch
1:15 1st breakout session
2:00 break
2:15 2nd breakout session
3:00 ITART & TSRT business meetings

Deirdre Routt, TSRT Chair
Michael Sauers, ITART Chair

Integrate drop.io into Outlook

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mainSeveral times I’ve talked about the need to end sending attachments via e-mail and the various alternatives including Windows Live Sky Drive, Dropbox, and drop.io along with various ways to integrate these services into your workflow. For you Outlook users, the new drop.io Outlook Plugin might be the solution for you. Once installed, instead of clicking on Outlook’s built-in attach item button, you click on the new “Attach Files with drop.io” button. Then just select your file (up to 100MB) and it will automatically be uploaded to drop.io and a link to the file will be inserted into your e-mail. It couldn’t get much simpler than that.

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Hype alert: Why cyberspace isn’t, and will never be, nirvana

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From a Clifford Stoll article published in Newsweek in 1995:

cliffordstoll…The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works…

…What the Internet hucksters won’t tell you is that the Internet is one big ocean of unedited data, without any pretense of completeness. Lacking editors, reviewers or critics, the Internet has become a wasteland of unfiltered data. You don’t know what to ignore and what’s worth reading…

Be sure to read the whole thing. How many people do you know that still agree with this?