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Slides: NAHSL 2010

David Rothman — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 13:18:38 +0000

Thanks again to the organizers and participants of NAHSL 2010 for inviting me to speak! Newport is lovely and I had a very nice time.

[Slides embedded below]

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As usual, my favorite thing about the event was the people I got to meet. FINALLY met Margo Coletti. I got to meet and chat with Lee Rainie (from whom I learned the word “tweckle”). I was delighted to meet Barbara Davis, who made this trip so delightfully easy and pleasant.

Another memorable moment was meeting Jeanie Vander Pyl of the Cape Cod Hospital Library. We had a brief correspondence in April 2009 that gave me a lasting case of warm fuzzies and reminded me how much I like the cooperative habits of so many librarians. It was a real treat to meet her in person and thank her for that.

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Melissa Rethlefsen’s Continued Awesomeness

David Rothman — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:07:03 +0000

I’d have given anything to see this presentation given. It may not interest you if you’re not a medlib person interested in publishing (or if you don’t know me or Melissa), but I grinned my way through the slides as they show the path to the creation of the book.

Saga of Internet Cool Tools for Physicians, or a Librarian's Social Journey to Publishing

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Then there’s this recent presentation of Melissa’s on mobile health tech for the Midwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association in Madison, WI in September that contains lots of consumer applications I know nothing about:

Mcmla 2010 tech trends

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That’s especially timely, given Pew’s recent report.

Melissa is awesome. She even let me come to her wedding, where we took these photobooth shots:

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MCMLA 2010 slides

David Rothman — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:52:41 +0000

Thanks so very, very much to MCMLA for inviting me to speak at their annual meeting last week- it was loads of fun.

Attendees: If you would like more information on the topics covered that are not addressed in the slides below, please email me- my email address is in the sidebar of this blog.

MCMLA 2010 slides (edited)

It was especially great to meet fun people like Cam Gentry, Kristin Sen, and Lynne Fox- and I got to pester T. Scott Plutchak with questions about his views on publishing until I finally think I understand where he’s coming from. I think I understand now why he says:

“Open access week is coming up. Here’s what I wish librarians would do — if you really care about advancing the openness of scholarship, make a commitment to go to at least one publishers conference or meeting in the next year. Introduce yourself to somebody other than your sales rep. Go have a cup of coffee or a drink. Ask them about what they see as the future of scholarly publishing. And then listen.”

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“Information Overload” vs. “Filter Failure”

David Rothman — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:52:06 +0000

on 1/10/2008, I wrote:

I’m sincerely flabbergasted to hear a librarian (or any information professional) complain that there is “too much data” or “too many RSS feeds.”

“Web 2.0″ doesn’t cause an information glut. What causes an information glut is being an information glutton, taking on more than anyone can reasonably manage. There aren’t too many RSS feeds. Rather, there are users who subscribe to too many RSS feeds. The solution isn’t for less data to exist, the solution is smarter, more selective use of the data. The tools that help us filter and manage the information that we care most about are continuing to improve in power and sophistication.

Nice to see Clay Shirky agree:

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MLGSCA/NCNMLG 2010 Slides (#jm2010az)

David Rothman — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:23:45 +0000

Perhaps I can write a bit more about my trip to Arizona soon, but for now I wanted to get the slides posted for those who attended.

It was lots of fun and a treat for me to get to leave Syracuse in January and gape at palm trees for a couple of days.

Refreshing Take on Technology Trends (MLGSCA/NCNMLG 2010)

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CHLA-ABSC 2009

David Rothman — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:10:09 +0000

Thanks so much to Laurie Blanchard and everybody at CHLA for inviting me to speak! I enjoyed Winnipeg and it was a treat to finally meet people like Francesca Frati (who is awesome) and Mark Rabnett.

The slides for my talk (which look awful in Slideshare) are embedded below.

To clarify for Krista Clement:

I think anything that removes obstacles between users and the information they want is good. If more fully automating some functions of the library makes those functions less visible, I think that’s great. I don’t think that doing a better job for users will result in decreased funding, but I do think that better automation will cut costs.

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Screencast: Evernote as a Medical Student’s Peripheral Brain

David Rothman — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:27:19 +0000

In this video, 4th-year medical student Ryan MacDonald demonstrates how he uses Evernote as his “medical peripheral brain.”

So cool.

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NYLA’s ‘Meet the Bloggers’ Panel (slides)

David Rothman — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:30:43 +0000

Jill Hurst-Wahl’s slides are available here.

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UNYOC (CE slides) and NYLA Tomorrow

David Rothman — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:27:47 +0000

My apologies to the awfully nice folks who attended the CE course I taught at UNYOC a couple of weeks ago! I’ve taken far too long to get these slides posted:

Also: I’ll be on a panel at NYLA tomorrow (Friday, 11/6/2008) afternoon at 4:00 PM- please say hello if you’re going to be there! As usual at these sorts of things, I’ll know almost nobody. But hey- I might get to meet Polly Farrington!

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Screencasting and Podcasting: Experience of the Yale Medical Library

David Rothman — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:30:36 +0000

Lei Wang’s slides from his presentation for the Connecticut Library Association on 10/24/2008:

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