LibConf.com from Information Today

The information professional must prepare for the meeting. Do the research, and go to the company website. You may know more than you think. ...

For the past 3 years, ProQuest has sponsored a study of library market spending trends, which was conducted by ITI's UniSphere division. ...

Now libraries are taking the community to the world. Many books are checked out because they are on display. How do you display an e-book? ...

Blake's presentation,was full of practical information and even scary! Learn the truth about information security....

Storm Cunningham, author of the forthcoming book, ReCivilizing, described community revitalization and concluded by listing roles that libraries could play....

Based on his new upcoming book, ReCivilizing, Cunningham discusses the rise of citizen-led regeneration of communities and nature....

Monday's opening keynote address by Brent Leary, Partner, CRM Essentials, is now online. ...

A panel of 3 librarians described augmented reality (AR) and provided some demonstrations of applications of it in libraries....

We need to develop more flexible models in staffing and challenge our assumptions about what libraries do in our community. Our staff impacts everything. ...

Rebecca (Dysart Jones Associates) and Moe (Markham ON Public Library) conducted a review and discussion of metrics and how to use them in a library....

Some libraries loan things that aren't books. Hacker spaces and maker spaces do this--libraries support them by facilitating access to resources....

Jason Griffey, author of Mobile Technology & Libraries told us why libraries should consider making their own hardware. ...

The exhibit hall opened after the second session, and it was very busy, which should have greatly pleased the vendors.   There were some unusual displays in the booths, even a giraffe…   …and a dinosaur!   I thought that...

Tom Hogan, ITI President, announced that total attendance for this 28th CIL conference is just under 2,000 people from 48 states and 13 foreign countries. ...

  As I mentioned in mast night’s post, the registration area looks much different this morning.  There’s lots of activity as attendees arrive for the conference, and anticipation is running high.   Last minute preparations are...

  The 2013 Computers in Libraries (CIL) conference is ready to go.  The Information Today, Inc. (ITI) staff in Medford, NJ has been hard at work planning and organizing, and now the event is here–ITI’s first 2013 conference.  I am...