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Monday, November 16th, 2009 Posted in For Libraries | No Comments »
Ask-WA Statistics – October, 2009 Ask-WA picked up significantly in October, beating September and August in every category. Except Qwidget requests, which remained about even, percentage-wise. In numbers: Email questions received: ... Read more..Friday, November 6th, 2009 Posted in For Libraries, For the Public, News and Updates | No Comments »
These media mentions are compiled by Brian Zylstra, Deputy Communications Director for the Office of the Secretary of State, and passed along to us. We had a special mention in ... Read more..Thursday, November 5th, 2009 Posted in For Libraries, For the Public, News and Updates | No Comments »
If you've received an email from anyone at the State Library this week, you may have noticed that our email addresses have changed, and pretty significantly. No, we're not sending ... Read more..Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 Posted in For the Public | No Comments »
Please join us on Thursday, November 12th at 6:30 when we host Richard LeMieux, author of Breakfast at Sally's: One homeless man's inspirational journey. Breakfast at Sally's: ... Read more..Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 Posted in For Libraries, For the Public, Technology and Resources | No Comments »
Ask-WA had its television debut last Friday night on Komo News! All the video they took was from the UW, but they covered the service well, and in a ... Read more..Friday, October 30th, 2009 Posted in For Libraries, Technology and Resources, Training and Continuing Education | No Comments »
Day 4 of the conference started with another great keynote: a panel of two high school students and one college student talking about how they view technology, education, and ... Read more..Friday, October 30th, 2009 Posted in For Libraries, Technology and Resources, Training and Continuing Education | No Comments »
Day three started off with a funny and interesting keynote with Paul Holdengraber (who had interviewed Vint Cerf the previous day), and continued in good form with some great ... Read more..Friday, October 30th, 2009 Posted in For Libraries, Technology and Resources, Training and Continuing Education | No Comments »
Vint Cerf started the day, and the beginning of the actual conference, with an amazing keynote. The interchange between Vint and Paul Holdengraber, his interview, was oftentimes hilarious as ... Read more..Friday, October 30th, 2009 Posted in For Libraries, Technology and Resources, Training and Continuing Education | No Comments »
Technically a pre-conference, Sunday was well-spent attending the Searcher's Academy. A number of speakers covered a number of topics, all relating to searching, and many of them very useful. ... Read more..Friday, October 30th, 2009 Posted in For Libraries, Technology and Resources, Training and Continuing Education | No Comments »
I just returned from the Internet Librarian Conference (and sunny Monterey, CA) yesterday, and my brain is definitely still trying to absorb new ideas, concepts, and nifty web tools. ... Read more..