Paul Miller at Internet Librarian 2006
As I posted earlier this month, the Talis Evangelists are out on the road a fair amount at the moment.
Last week I joined Paul, at Internet Librarian International in London, fresh [I don't think Paul will agree with that description!] from his presentation at Access 2006 in Ottawa. His presentations from those events are available here [Access 2006 - ILI2006]
Yesterday Paul delivered a presentation at Internet Librarian 2006 in Monterey. Being a few hours behind, timezone wise back in the office, I left it until this morning to check a few blogs to see how it went.
I was going to then compose a posting picking up on what Paul said, but others have done it far better than I could. Reading some of the blog postings is [almost] as good as being there. So to give my ‘ol keyboard a rest here is some excellent coverage:
- From Jane at WanderingEye - Paul has a lovely accent to which I am a total sucker as my readers well know. - go get ‘em Paul.
- From SkaGirlie - The whole thing was definitely inspiring. Now I just need to figure out how to do it.
- From Nicole Engard at DUSLA - Paul reminds us that library 2.0 is not just technology, but a fundamental shift in the way that we reach our users. Library 2.0 is about opening the library up and pushing the library everywhere.
- From Sarah The Scattered Librarian - Paul proceeded to shift my paradigms–something that has been happening about every other session so far.
Well that saved me much typing! Reading through the postings there also seems to be a non-Library theme forming. If we can work out how to bottle Paul’s voice I’m sure there would be a thriving market for a product called Miller’s Accent to be sold from a stall outside North American Library events.
Anyway if you missed Paul in the flesh, his IL2006 slides should be up on talis.com as soon as they are available. You can catch him again at the Charleston Conference in South Carolina 8-11 November. If you want a different accent, I will be presenting at the Stellnbosch Symposium in South Africa 2-3 November.
[Update] I have just spotted [thanks to ebyblog for the heads up] that the sessions from Access 2006, including Paul’s, are now available as Podcasts, along with some of the presentations.
