Chris Sherman, editor of SearchDay and co-author of The Invisible Web, delivered this morning’s keynote, “Search Engine Update & A Look Ahead.” Chris is always a wonderful speaker. (He had a workshop rescheduled in Denver two years ago due to 40″ of snow in 48 hours.) He has a new book coming out next month, Google Power which sounds quite interesting. The current trends: local search, personalization, the return of “push” (sorta), collaborative search, e-mail & desktop search, and unified search. Chris’ “push” were RSS feeds. I’ve got to disagree with him on this, as I’ve posted before, since RSS is not push. It might act like it, but it’s not, it’s pull. (I’ll give him points for calling it “push sorta” though.)
Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
Unless otherwise stated, all opinions are my own and are not to be considered those of the City of Logan, UT.
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