LibConf.com from Information Today

So if you’ve resolved to boost your site’s user experience and online presence for the new year, improving your content accessibility is a great way to start.

EContent Magazine editor Michelle Manafy on Social Media Ettiquette:

“It’s one thing to have an unwanted guest turn up and wrangle his way in.  It’s another to have someone else controlling the guest list and then making it available for all to see.”

Read the rest of Michelle Manafy’s article at  Social Web Etiquette
or follow @michellemanafy on Twitter.

The man in the brown shirt at the speaker’s table is the Google guy.  His name is Dan Clancy, Engineering Director for Google Book Search, Google’s effort to digitize all the world’s books and make them publicly searchable and displayable, purportedly as a service to the public, but most observe Google also has commercial interests. […]

Ah, Chicago.  Hog butcher, etc., etc.  When I arrived yesterday afternoon I took a quick walk through The Loop, Chicago’s historic downtown district.  I even stepped into the old Marshall Fields department store, which reminded me a lot of the old John Wanamaker department store in my hometown of Philadelphia.  Both from the same era.  […]

  Search engine guru Danny Sullivan is always a welcome addition to any Internet Librarian program—he’s so busy traveling to his own company’s events that’s it’s great to grab him when the opportunity presents. He says he likes to come to IL because it forces him to examine if there are big “themes” to discuss. […]