Library Camp in Ann Arbor, April 14
Ed Vielmetti of Vacuum is organizing a Library Camp for April 14, 2006, in Ann Arbor.
Ed’s been doing great things as a techie patron/volunteer at the Ann Arbor public libraries. As I understand it the latest generation of library systems don’t necessarily do a lot of magical “web 2.0″ things themselves but they’re open enough to lend themselves to various kinds of mashups anyway. Ed’s been finding like-minded library geeks who are organizing themselves under the banner of “superpatrons“. (What’s a movement these days without an ambiguously ironic neologism?)
As with other fill-in-the-blank camps, attendance at Library Camp is free but be prepared to participate. You start by signing up on the wiki.
Sure wish I could be there! I also wish I could attend the mass digitization symposium this weekend at UMich. But I’ll console myself by hearing the panel on “Book Digitization and the Revenge of the Librarians” at SXSW. Daniel Clancy of Google Print will be there to answer the question, are we evil yet?
March 8th, 2006 at 4:40 pm
An example is Ed’s Greasemonkey script that tells users of Google Book Search when a book is available in the Ann Arbor library. (Via Google Blog.)
March 19th, 2006 at 10:05 am
Ed reports that the UMich symposium webcasts are now available.