Internet Librarians

Every year during the last week of October, about 4,000 librarians gather in Monterey, CA for the Internet Librarian conference sponsored by InfoToday. Four librarians from Sacramento Public Library are wandering around in the Monterey fog this week - quite literally, check the weather report - and hobnobbing with the very best Internet Librarians in the world - also quite literally, as we've met folks from Nigeria, South Africa and Canada just in the first few hours. This year's theme is "Net initiatives for tough times," and we're expecting to come back with some exciting ideas we can put to work for Sacramento Public Library.

We are all blogging our conference sessions, and you can follow us by visiting the Conference Calls blog. We've listed our blogs in the right sidebar. Librarians @civillibrarian, @hapalibrarian and @annot8 will be tweeting as well, and photos from everyone will proliferate over the week on Flickr.

Internet Librarian 2007 Conference

Last week I had the great privilege to attend the Internet Librarian Conference in Monterey, California and absorbed the wisdom of 15 presentations and three dynamic keynote speakers. I plan to share many of the exciting tips and hot topics that were offered, starting with the search engine, Exalead. Search expert, Mary Ellen Bates said that if we hadn't heard of Exalead yet, we would all know about it in the upcoming year. Try it out, compare it to the ubiquitous Google and let us know what you think.