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 their own research habits. Some of my favorite sessions happened on the last day. I loved some of the comments that the teen panel made, particularly when the guy from high school said that in the future technology will make our leaves easier [and better], but ONLY if we use it in the right way. I got to attend my first Pecha Kucha session, too, which was neat (20 slides per presenter, 6 minutes and 40 seconds to present).

• Keynote: Growing and Grown-Up Digital: Net-Gen Speaks
  Facilitated by Stephen Abram, SirsiDynix
• Mashups for Library Data
  Nicole Engard, Director of Open Source Solutions, ByWater Solutions
• Technology: The Engine Driving Pop Culture-Savvy Libraries or Source of Overload?
  Elizabeth Burns, Pop Goes the Library ; Sarah Houghton-Jan, LibrarianInBlack.net
• Pecha Kucha: Innovative Practices
  Amy Affelt, Nicole Hennig, Steve Harris, Matt Hamilton

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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 well as poignant. Vint talks some about the history of the internet, and taking off from there, where the internet may be heading. He touches on important topics like bit rot, privacy and user rights with e-materials, mobile technology, and the neutrality of the net. After the keynote, my day was pretty social networking heavy, but covers some interesting topics.

Sessions attended on Day 2 include:

• Opening Keynote: Digital Publishing, Preservation, and Practices
  Vint Cerf, VP and Chief Internet Evangalist, Google
• iGoogling with the Library: Customized Omnipresent Homepages
  Jason Clark and Timothy Donahue, Montana State University Libraries
• Creating Connections and Social Reference in Libraries
  Margaret Smith, Physical Sciences Librarian, New York University
• Cloud Computing in Practice: Creating Digital Services and Collections
  Laura Harris, Kendra Levine, Amy Buckland, Jason Clark
• 2.0 Too: Web Services for Underfunded Libraries
  Sarah Houghton-Jan, LibrarianinBlack.net
• Evaluating, Recommending, and Justifying 2.0 Tools
  Marydee Ojala, editor for Online Magazine, Information Today, Inc.

Other IL posts: Index | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4

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