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I’m starting to get excited! Internet Librarian is coming in one month!!! Ok, maybe I’m a little bit more excited about the week before that which I will be spending in the Wine Country with Adam. But I am really excited to see my librarian friends, meet some people I’ve been dying to meet, go to some thought-provoking presentations and have some really exciting chats in between them. It looks like it’s going to be a rockin’ conference!

We have a wiki again for this conference and I hope anyone who has been to Monterey will do their part in recommending great restaurants, things to do, etc. At the moment, there isn’t a lot in the restaurant section and that’s usually the most useful section on the wiki — at least for me. I also created a Conference Reports section this time around where people can link to their blog posts or — if they don’t have a blog — can actually post their own conference reports. It would be great to have that sort of stuff all collected in one place. Conference tags are great too, but I find it particularly useful to be able to see all of the coverage on a specific session in one place so that I can see how differently people perceived it. So please, let’s all work make this a truly useful resource that will benefit all of us!

I am doing A LOT of speaking at Internet Librarian — a presentation, a panel, a preconference workshop and a CyberTour. You can find the schedule of my talks and my tentative conference schedule here on the wiki. I’m pretty excited about my RSS and JavaScript talk, both because I have the pleasure of working with Paul Pival and because it’s not about wikis. It’s definitely easier to talk about something you know really well, but it’s much more fun and challenging to stretch yourself to learn a new topic and talk about it. I am feeling a bit overwhelmed by all my upcoming talks in the Fall, so I’m kind of looking forward to a quieter Winter and Spring, speaking-wise. I find speaking a whole lot more stressful and time-consuming than writing.

Hope to see you at Internet Librarian!

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