One of this morning’s keynote speakers was Mary Lee Kennedy. One of the things she’s done was to work with Microsoft to develop SharePoint 2003. CA serious software package for sharing information for online meetings.) One of the was she illustrated her points about “getting personal” was the use of IM programs to provide reference service. As Michael Stephens said the other night, “What I’d like to see is a library dump $20,000 virtual reference software and just get an AOL screen name.”
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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