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Travel logs

My job and my profession offer me opportunities to participate in many conferences, meetings, and workshops. The following links point to an incomplete list of essays -- travel logs -- describing what I saw and learned:

  • Open Library Developer's Meeting: One Web Page for Every Book Ever Published - I attended an Open Library Developer's Meeting on Friday, March 29, 2008 in San Francisco's Presidio, and this travel log outlines my experiences there. In a sentence, it was one of the more inspiring meetings I ever attended. (2008-03-12)

  • Dr. Strangelove, or How we learned to live with Google - This is as reverse-travel log -- notes from a mini-symposium held here at the University Libraries of Notre Dame. (2007-11-15)

  • A Trip to Rochester to Learn about XC - On February 8-9, 2007 I had the opportunity to visit the University of Rochester River Campus and meet with a number of very smart people to discuss a thing called XC (eXtensible Catalog, extensiblecatalog.info). This travel log documents the experience. (2007-02-16)

  • Institute on Scholarly Communication - This travel log documents my experiences at the first Institute on Scholarly Communication (July 12-14, 2006) facilitated by both ARL and ACRL. In a sentence, the Institute was a workshop aimed at helping librarians advance scholarly communication in a networked environment. For the most part I believe the Institute was a success, but its benefits are difficult to measure. (2006-08-21)

  • OAI4: To CERN and Back Again - I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the OAI4 conference at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland between October 20 and 22, 2005. This text outlines what I heard and learned there. (2005-11-30)

  • A short visit to CRL - This is the tiniest of travel logs describing a trip to the Center for Research Libraries (CRL). (2005-05-24) 

  • IOLUG Spring Program - On Friday, May 20 I attended the Indiana On-Line User's Group (IOLUG) Spring Program called "Marketing your library on the Web", and this text outlines what I learned there. (2005-05-24)

  • Indiana Library Federation Annual Meeting - This text documents my experiences at the Indiana Library Federation Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, March 24, 2005. (2005-03-28)

  • IESR/OCKHAM in Manchester - This text documents my experiences at a joint IESR/OCKHAM meeting in Manchester, UK, March 2-5, 2005. (2005-03-28)

  • European Conference on Digital Libraries (Bath, England) - This text chronicles my experiences at the European Conference on Digital Libraries, September 11-15, 2004, Bath, England. (2004-10-01)

  • OCKHAM in Corvallis, OR - This is brief travel log documenting an OCKHAM meeting on Corvallis, OR, August 26 - 28, 2004. (2004-09-02)

  • Usability test results - This text summarizes the results of the Libraries' recent usability test against its website. (2004-01-05)

  • MCN Annual Conference - This is going to be one of my briefer travel logs, a description of my experiences at the MCN Annual Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 5-8, 2003. (2003-11-22)

  • LITA National Forum - This is a travel log documenting my experiences at the LITA National Forum, Norfolk, VA, October 3 - 5, 2003. (2003-10-17)

  • Symposium on open access and digital preservation - This text documents my experiences at the Symposium on open access and digital preservation, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, October 2, 2004. (2004-10-08)

  • Texas Library Association Annual Meeting - This is a travel log documenting my experiences at the Texas Library Association Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, April 2 - 4, 2003. In summary, the experience broadened and rebalanced my perspective on the definition of librarianship. (2003-04-06)

  • DAIAD Goes to Ann Arbor - The Digital Access and Information Architecture Department (DAIAD) went to visit the University of Michigan libraries between January 27 - 28, 2003 to network and learn how they do some of their work. This text outlines our experiences there. (2003-02-03)

  • OCKHAM@Emory - This is the briefest of travel logs describing my experiences at Emory University discussing the ideas of OCKHAM. (2003-01-21)

  • Web Services at OCLC - This text documents some of my experiences on a recent trip to OCLC, December 16 - 17, 2002 to discuss Web Services. (2003-01-03)

  • Access 2002, Windsor, Ontario - This text documents my experiences at Access 2002 in Windsor, Ontario, October 21-23, 2002. The annual Access conference is Canadian in bent and brings together the more computer technologically minded people from all types of libraries -- academic, public, government, etc. What follows are my notes from many of the presentations. (2002-11-11)

  • European Conference on Digital Libraries - This travel log documents my experience at the 6th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL), Rome, Italy, September 16-18, 2002. In a sentence, this conference, attended by mostly university computer science faculty, facilitated the sharing of digital library research ideas and experimental results. (2002-10-19)

  • ALA Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA - This text documents my experiences at the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Meeting held in Atlanta, GA, June 14-17, 2002. (2002-07-05)

  • OCKHAM in Atlanta - This is a travel log documenting by experiences at Emory University to discuss a concept coined OCKHAM (Open Community Knowledge Hypermedia Administration and Metadata), May 3, 2002. The purpose of OCKHAM is to articulate and design a set of "light weight reference models" for creating and maintaining digital library services and collections. (2002-05-28)

  • DLF in Chicago - This travel log documents my experiences at the Digital Library Federation Spring Forum, Chicago, IL, May 2002 (2002-05-19)

  • ASIS&T 2002 Information Architecture Summit - This text documents my experiences at the ASIS&T 2002 Information Architecture Summit, March 15-17, 2002, Baltimore, MD. (2002-03-20)

  • Ontario Library Association (OLA) Annual Meeting - This is brief travel log outlining my experiences at the Ontario Library Association Annual Meeting 2002, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (2002-02-03)

You might also bse interested in some of my "musings" -- articles and writings on libraries and librarianship.

Date created: March 12, 2007
Date updated: March 12, 2008
URL: http://www.library.nd.edu/daiad/morgan/travel/
 

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