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 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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