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CJRLC Technology Group - Gadget Petting Zoo - Thursday, May 7th

The CJRLC Technology Group will be wrapping up another spectacular year of meetings with our final get together for the 2008-2009 season on Thursday, May 7th from 3:00 to 4:30 pm at Princeton Public Library. This meeting will feature a Gadget Petting Zoo!

As many of you know, bringing your tech toys and gadgets is always encouraged at our meetings, but we really want you pull out all the stops and bring your latest, cutting-edge stuff to the May 7th meeting. If you discovered anything new lately at regional meetings or national conferences like Computers in Libraries, please feel free to bring those ideas also.

If you have not yet seen Aaron Schmidt's revolutionary DCPL app for the iPhone, I plan on demonstrating it at the session. This app is already helping to transform mobile access to libraries. In order to encourage other libraries to grow their own iPhone apps, Aaron has graciously made the code available under a Creative Commons Attribution – Noncommercial - Share Alike license and it can be downloaded from the DCPL Labs website.

Please register for the May 7^th meeting here. Directions to the Princeton Public Library and parking information can be found here.

After the May 7^th meeting, the CJRLC Technology Group will return in the fall with all-new 2009-2010 programming!

So mark your calendars for May 7th, power up your best gadgets and we'll see you then!

New & Noteworthy for March 2009-PDF to Word Converter, Twitter in Libraries, Web 2.0 directory, Webook

Why Twitter Is My Personalized Search Engine
By Corvida on search engine
Mike Arrington is right, it’s definitely time to start thinking of Twitter as a search engine. I’m going to tell you exactly how powerful Twitter’s search data is and why you might want to start using Twitter’s search engine a lot more than Google.
SxSW Interactive
For the past three day’s because of Twitter, I’ve been able to score a Press Pass for SxSW Interactive (free) and stumble upon a ride to Austin from Atlanta (I just need to help with driving) with the awesomesauce Grant Robertson, lead blogger of Download Squad (a must subscribe), and his awesomesauce other half Christina Warren b.k.a @film_girl from The Unofficial Apple Weblog. They’re native residents of Atlanta. Guess who told me that? I’m generating great sponsorship offers to accommodate the outrageous hotel prices for SxSW Interactive because of Twitter search also.

After all this, the surprises didn’t stop there. Today I became a panelist for the panel: Can the Afrosphere Survive the Age of Obama (If you have room on your schedule, stop by). I DM’d the Moderator of this panel a few months back when it seemed she might need an extra panelist. I saw her tweet about the dilemma because of Twitter search. I highly doubt she would’ve been in Google’s results and she was exactly who I was looking for. Now I have access to a few Film panels too.
All of this was made possible with a few connections that gave great advice, and a lot of playing with keywords on Twitter’s search engine to find everything I needed to gain sponsorship. Twitter was where I gathered the bulk of my results. Not our beloved Google.
Pay Attention
How I came across the information is by paying attention to the context of the tweets and who tweeters were responding to. Twitter’s search engine is full of connections. You only have to pay attention to the stream. The results are so much more personalized all because it’s YOUR creation. It’s a human powered search engine in a lot of ways! It has a TON of potential once the masses figure out how to use it.
Something to ponder, yes?

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Twitter basics for Librarians
http://www.leoraw.com/blog/2009/02/17/twitter-basics-for-librarians/
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4 Reasons To Not Increase Your Followers On Twitter
By Corvida on social networks
Following over 700+ people on Twitter can become one of the most tedious and time consuming tasks of social networking. People are constantly following you and unfollowing you. All you really want is for people to stick around, the opportunity to build your very own micro-community, and for people to listen and be listened to in return. So there’s a bunch of tips out the web on how to increase your followers on social networks. Assuming you plan to follow most, if not all of those new followers, here are are 4 reasons why you probably don’t want to do that.

1. Too Many Connections To Manage
The biggest problem that occurs when increasing your followers/following count is managing those connections. It becomes harder to keep track of why you followed someone or why someone may have followed you. As the list increases it also becomes harder to follow your “real” connections & those that are just information firehoses. If you happen to be experiencing this problem now, check out 2 Great Apps For Cleaning Your Twitter Contact List & Tweetsum.

2. Decrease In Connections
Ah, the decrease in connections. I won’t keep you long on this. In fact, just head over here: Decreasing Connections While Increasing Our Networks.
Maybe growth on some of these networks isn’t the best thing in the world. Should there be self-imposed limits on how many people you befriend? No because in the end, while your network growth may increase, your connection with your network still increases. However, the rate at which the connection can increase actually decreases. Did that make sense? Unless your friends are constantly questioning you or keeping tabs on you, it’s going to take a lot longer to make deeper connections the more your network grows.

3. Increase in Noise
AHH, the noise! Twitter can become a horrible place when off-topic noise suddenly floods your Twitter stream. People are forever changing their minds or expanding their interests. In doing so, those new followers may have absolutely nothing in common with what you relate to on Twitter or current followers may become irrelevant to you. Do you really want to constantly prune through thousands of followers just to continuously get a better signal-to-noise ratio?

4. Getting Off Topic In Your Stream
In turn, taking part in these off-topic conversations can change the flow, context, and content of your own Twitter stream. With an increase of followers comes the task of staying on topic and not abandoning your “original” audience, which I like to think of as the first 400 people to follow you.

Professional Advice
In the end, an increase of followers can also increase any headaches you already have with Twitter, and make room for new problems. Connections can be severed and your pleasant Twitter experience can become a nightmare. So please, think twice before increasing your followers and those you’re following. You don’t have to follow everyone back. You shouldn’t follow everyone back. STAY FOCUSED!

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WEbook is about you and User Generated Books
http://www.webook.com/
Let's face it: The traditional process for publishing a book is a lot like ivy-league school admission. Sooner or later, you'll find yourself brownnosing a guy with elbow patches. And then there's the endless waiting. And waiting. And waiting.
That is, until recently. What changed? Well, now there's WEbook, a ground-breaking online resource for aspiring authors, which lets you take charge of your own destiny. This avant-garde book publishing company applies an interactive approach to the process - in every sense of the word - by using the Internet as a platform to connect truly brilliant writers to print publication. Think of us as a virtual studio lounge for writers, where self-professed literati like you can wax poetic about the finer points of writing and online book publishing, collaborate on project work, and provide valuable feedback to one another - all in real time through the power of the Internet. Best of all, if your contribution makes the cut, you won't have to spend a nickel to see your name in real, live print. Instead WEbook funds publication of the best books as printed books, eBooks, and other customized downloads. You and your collaborators share in royalties on book sales.
Be a part of the "WE" in "WEbook." Achieve Your Lifelong Goal of Publishing A Book, with Plenty of Time to Revel in It.
Channel your literary genius through WEbook, where writing loves company. Discover just how easy it is to break into the elite world of book publishing as a member of this site. Join today! It's free!

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http://beta.go2web20.net/
About Go2Web20.net
For the past two years, Go2web20 has been one of the biggest web2.0 directories out there. We built this application to enable people to stay up to date with all the new & hot services that are born daily into the web. In many cases, Go2web20 has been the first to report the existence of a new application.
Today Go2web20 includes over 2,700 services and more are uploaded everyday. We also make sure to disable services that are no longer working and by doing this we ensure a more useful and enjoyable experience when performing a search. We believe that this is a natural behavior and logical progress - not all the services that you see here will live forever, but they'll serve you for as long as they live.
We know that people like our directory as it is - in fact, we have more than 28,000 del.icio.us posts to prove it and we continue to grow. We're not stopping at this, however, in order to give all of you a smoother navigation and some other added values, we've redesigned the site completely. Don't worry, you can still spend hours on the site, we're not taking that from you!
So what's new?
A search engine that searches all the content at the site.
Auto-complete for services and tags.
Search by multiple tags.
Hide-Show for the tagBar for a wider or narrower view.
Ability to choose between a gallery or a list view.
Very sophisticated navigation.
But, that is not all...Each service will now offer its own app page where you can find valuable information whether you're the app owner or a visitor to the site. Basically it's a mashup, but a good one. We really tried offer only the stuff that you'd care about, and want to read, and avoided the data that you won't find interesting. Simple as that. we've done the dirty work for you.
Go2web20 was founded in mid-2006, has thousands of unique visitors per day, indexes thousands of applications that will help your daily life on the net easier, and keep you up to date on the services that you need to know about as they arrive on the scene.

CJRLC Technology Group Meeting - Virtual Communication Skills - New Date! - March 17th

There has been a slight change for our next CJRLC Technology Group meeting.

This meeting was originally scheduled for Tuesday, March 10th, with Dr. Marie Radford presenting, but that had to be postponed. Instead, our meeting will now take place on Tuesday, March 17th, (same time 3 - 4:30pm) with our new guests Beth Cackowski, Project Coordinator, Q and A NJ and Julie Strange, Statewide Coordinator of Maryland AskUsNow!, the MD Statewide Virtual Reference Program. The special topic for our meeting will remain unchanged, with Beth and Julie team-presenting on Virtual Communication Skills during this special “all virtual” meeting! You won’t want to miss the unique team of two leaders of statewide reference services as they talk about the skill set for communicating effectively in virtual environments!

Registration will open tomorrow, Friday, March 6th for a limited number of seats, and this meeting will be recorded and made available to all. Please register at http://tinyurl.com/cjrlctech starting 9:00 am, Friday, March 6th!

What's required to participate in an online virtual meeting? You will need a computer connected to the Internet and a phone for the call-in portion for the audio. You may use a Mac or PC and any browser. There is no charge to you for the phone call or the connection to the online meeting. After you register, sign-on information will be sent to you.

We hope that you can take part in the next CJRLC Tech Group meeting on our new date, March 17th!

CJRLC Technology Group Meeting - March 10th - Virtual Communication Skills

At the last CJRLC Technology Group meeting the topic was Virtual Meetings. Participants attended both in-person and online. Everyone had the chance to learn about and try out the WebEx environment. At the next Tech Group meeting on Tuesday, March 10, we will continue to explore this concept with the meeting taking place entirely online using WebEx.

Appropriately, the topic for March 10 will be Virtual Communication Skills, presented by Dr. Marie Radford of Rutgers University SCILS. As always, the meeting and program are free. However, as there are a limited number of "seats" available, the meeting will be recorded, archived and made available to everyone starting the following day. On Friday, March 6 registration will open. For more information, please see the http://www.cjrlc.org calendar and click on March 10. If you have any questions, please contact Amy Kearns at CJRLC. We hope that other CJRLC groups will take advantage of this type of meeting in the future.

What's required to participate in an online meeting? You will need a computer connected to the Internet and a phone for the call-in portion for the audio. You may use a Mac or PC and any browser. There is no charge to you for the phone call or the connection to the online meeting. After you register, sign-on information will be sent to you. Please register for the meeting at http://tinyurl.com/cjrlcvirtual on or after March 6th!

We hope that you can take part in the next CJRLC Tech Group meeting on March 10th!

Minutes 1-13-09http://www.neptunepubliclibrary.org/cjrlctechjan09.htm

The minutes for the January meeting are available to view.

January 13, 2009

IM tools comparison

I wanted to share this article about IM tools
http://lifehacker.com/375391/five-best-instant-messengers

We're definitely looking at Digsby at Princeton Public.
We were wondering how much traffic local libraries with IM tools are getting. If anyone has feedback, please feel free to get in touch.
Janice Painter
jpainter@princetonlibrary.org

How to Imbed Almost Anything in your Website

How to Embed Almost Anything in your Website from Digital Inspiration

January 13th Meeting - Web Conferencing

The next meeting of the CJRLC Technology Group will take place on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at the CJRLC Offices in Freehold from 3:00 to 4:30 PM.

Remote communication and productivity tools are growing in popularity. Web conferencing is used for online meetings and presentations and allows for travel costs to be substantially reduced when it is not necessary for people to collaborate in one particular geographic location. At our meeting we will look at web conferencing and collaboration service tools such as Webex and others. To illustrate the value of web conferencing, we will conduct this meeting both live at the CJRLC offices and virtually via web conference (the live portion starts at 3:00 pm and the virtual part begins at 4:00 pm). If you are planning to come to the meeting in person, just show up. If you are going to participate virtually via web conferencing, please pre-register by e-mailing Amy Kearns by Monday, January 12th at 2:00 pm at the latest. You will be e-mailed logon information in advance of the meeting. Please note that there are a limited number of virtual seats available - first come, first serve. The virtual meeting will last about 30 minutes.

As always, CJRLC Technology Group meetings are free and open to all attendees. Please bring your new tech ideas, discoveries and tips to share with other group members in the New Technology Roundtable section of the meeting! Don’t forget to bring your business cards for use in networking with other tech (and non-tech) librarians from around the region! Feel free to bring your own handheld devices to use and show off during the meeting! At our last meeting we got to see quite a few new model cell phones, high capacity flash drives and other wireless gadgets!

Directions to the CJRLC Offices can be found here. Hope to see you at the meeting on January 13th!

November 19th Meeting - Digital Storytelling

The next meeting of the CJRLC Technology Group will take place on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at the Hamilton Township Free Public Library, from 3:30 to 5:00 PM. This meeting is also a combined meeting with the NJLA IT Section.

We have another exciting meeting on tap as this one will feature a presentation on Digital Storytelling by Nancy Dowd, Marketing Director for the New Jersey State Library! Nancy will help us create a digital story, as well as explain the concept and show how to use digital storytelling in your marketing activities. Nancy will also fill us in on how harnessing the power of digital storytelling will help with the State Library’s marketing campaign “Solving Life’s Little Problems.” CJRLC will be providing flip video cameras for use during this session, so if you have ever wanted to try out one, this is the meeting to attend!

As always, CJRLC Technology Group meetings are free and open to all attendees. Please bring your new tech ideas, discoveries and tips to share with other group members in the New Technology Roundtable section of the meeting! Be sure to bring your business cards and network with other tech (and non-tech) librarians from around the region! Also, feel free to bring your own wireless devices (laptops, digital video cameras and cell phones) to use and show off during the meeting!

Directions to the Hamilton Township Free Public Library can be found here. Hope to see you at the meeting on November 19th!

September 10th Meeting Minutes Now Available!

The minutes from the September 10th CJRLC Technology Group meeting are now available for download here. Thanks to everyone that participated in our first meeting of the 2008 - 2009 season! More information about our next meeting on November 19th will be posted soon!

web 2.5 is here...

She Geeks In Tech - Web 2.5 Is Here

This is a guest post by the awesomesauce Sarah Perez of Sarahintampa. Sarah is an expert in the field of social media, IT, and web apps. She is also a writer for ReadWriteWeb, and co-founder member of the Grand Effect Network. You can subscribe to Sarahintampa here.

The new social web is an evolution from the Web 2.0 revolution, so shouldn’t we give it a new name?

Web 2.5?

Web 2.5: The emergence of platforms-as-a-service

Posted by Dan Farber

On the road to the elusive Web 3.0 (something to do with semantics, meaning, and context rather than just data, links, and AJAX), core infrastructure is beginning to move...

September 10th Meeting - The New Season Begins!

The first meeting of the CJRLC Technology Group for the new 2008 - 2009 season will take place on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at the CJRLC Offices in Freehold. The meeting will run from 3:00 to 5:00 PM.

Our meeting will feature a program covering the brand new CJRLC forums! These forums are designed to enable you to post your suggestions, questions, announcements and discussion topics within the region and give you the opportunity to interact with your colleagues in the region.

As always, new members are welcome! CJRLC Technology Group meetings are free and open to all attendees. This is the perfect opportunity to meet and network with other like-minded librarians from around the region. Please bring your new tech ideas, discoveries and tips to share with other group members!

Directions to CJRLC offices can be found here. Hope to see you at the meeting on September 10th!

May 13th Tech Group Meeting Minutes

The minutes from the May 13th CJRLC Technology Group meeting are now available for download here. Most of the online resources mentioned in the meeting are available as links in this Word document, skillfully assembled by Krista Horan. Thanks Krista!

Interesting Article on 2.0 Librarians

Am I a 2.0 Librarian and the Library 2.0 Spectrum

Posted on August 1, 2007
Filed Under Future of Libraries, Library 2.0, Web 2.0 |

Recently, I was asked “am I a Library 2.0 Librarian” by someone… and that started off a flurry of thought, mainly because I don’t think there’s a simple answer to that question. For starters, you can’t answer the question by simply dividing the room into tech geeks and non-tech geeks. Knowing xhtml and css does not make one a Library 2.0 librarian! In the same way, you can’t divide the room by age - there are older librarians who “get it,” and younger librarians who don’t.

You can also play the “you might be a 2.0 librarian if” game. Let’s do it now - You might be a 2.0 Librarian if:

• you have a Library 2.0 job. That one’s a no-brainer - if your job consists of implementing emerging web 2.0 and other trends, you’re probably a 2.0 librarian.
• You don’t have the job title, but you implement emerging trends anyway. This could be as part of your job, or something you do as part of your professional interests/activities.
• You don’t do it on-the-job, but you do it personally… you have a blog, a facebook account, multiple IM accounts, etc.

But this yes/no game only covers the more extreme examples. There are many librarians who aren’t extreme geeks. They don’t understand the whole range of web 2.0 tools, but they might understand parts and pieces of it. For example, they might understand the need for IM reference, or for a MySpace teen page.

So - what I’d like to suggest is that there’s a library 2.0 range, or spectrum (click the image to see a larger version of the spectrum). Every library and librarian is somewhere on this spectrum - either on the more traditional, luddite side, or on the “participation, web 2.0″ side.

Library 2.0 Spectrum
My Library 2.0 Spectrum has seven points. In reality, there are many more! These seven points on the spectrum can help you understand where you are in relation to Library 2.0, and where you might be headed. Here’s an explanation of it:

1. On the left-hand side of the spectrum are the Luddites. These are very traditional libraries and librarians who really don’t understand the need to change and/or adapt to emerging trends.
2. next up is the librarian who grudgingly realizes that online databases and search engines are useful tools, and that email reference is a good thing to do.
3. Here, the library/librarian discovers that some customers primarily visit the library’s website, and that the library has alot of non-traditional library usage.
4. The Lightbulb - This is a major point on the Library 2.0 spectrum. Something “clicks” - The library/librarian realizes that the organization/librarian needs to change to meet emerging customer needs. They start trend-watching, and are ready to experiment. At this point, they might not know what to do next!
5. At this point, the library allows staff to “do stuff” - ie., start a library blog, start pilot projects with emerging technology, and maybe decide to keep customer comments open. As a librarian, you are taking a Learning 2.0 course.
6. At this point, pilot projects are finalized, and implementation is underway. As a librarian, you have embraced many of these concepts - you have an IM account, you regularly read blogs, you are not afraid to participate in the digital world.
7. Honestly, I’m not sure anyone has “arrived” on the far right of my spectrum… but this side is for libraries that have embraced and implemented participation, trust, and community wholeheartedly. For librarians, you can talk turkey with Stephen Abram

So… where are you on this spectrum? Where’s your library? How do you bump yourself up to “the next level?”

http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/08/01/am-i-a-20-librarian-and-the-library-20-spectrum/

May 13th Meeting - "Exploring the Current Web Toolbox: Practical Super Searcher Tips & Techniques."

The next meeting of the CJRLC Technology Group will take place on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at the Lawrenceville campus of Rider University. The meeting will run from 3:30 to 5:00 PM.

Our meeting will feature a presentation by Robert Lackie of Rider University entitled "Exploring the Web Search Toolbox: Practical Super Searcher Tips & Techniques". This presentation is a special condensed version of Robert's day-long workshop of the same name that is designed to help you make more effective web searches. Robert will also update us on newly discovered sources since his presentation at our May meeting last year. So, if you ever wanted to identify the best search engines to use for your information searches or get some pointers on more sophisticated web search techniques, you will enjoy Robert's presentation.

As with our previous meetings, new members are welcome and encouraged to attend. Don't forget to bring your new tech ideas, discoveries and tips to share with other group members in our New & Noteworthy Technology section!

Directions to the Lawrenceville campus of Rider University can be found here.

This is our last Tech Group meeting for the year. We appreciate your support and hope that you had fun at our meetings this year. Stay tuned during the summer for an announcement about our 2008/2009 meeting schedule!

Hope to see you at Rider on May 13th!

March 18th Technology Group Meeting Minutes

The minutes from the March 18th CJRLC Technology Group meeting are now available for download here.

Open Source Software

I just attended the OSS program at Princeton Public Library, and wow! Nicole was great. She provided us with alot of information. Including ideas on OSS alternatives to popular pricey software. Here's a link that talks about a few alternatives:
The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy — and Their Open Source Alternatives

January 29th Meeting Minutes

The minutes from the January 29th CJRLC Technology Group meeting are now available for download here.

March 18th Tech Group Meeting: CJRLC Gaming Kits!

The next meeting of the CJRLC Technology Group will take place on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at the Middletown Township Public Library. The meeting will run from 4:00 to 5:00 PM. We hope that you will join us!

This will be a hands-on meeting about Gaming in Libraries, in conjunction with the CJRLC Gaming Committee. The new CJRLC Gaming Kits will debut at the meeting and you will have a chance to find out more about them as well as to try out the gaming consoles. We will have the Nintendo Wii and the Xbox 360 gaming consoles set up and you will be able to sample a variety of games including Rock Band, Dance Dance Revolution and other sports and action games included in the kits. The CJRLC Gaming Kits hold great potential for innovative programming in your library, so please plan to join us and find out more about this new CJRLC service!

Please RSVP in advance if you plan to attend this meeting by calling the CJRLC offices. More information about the program can be found on the CJRLC Blog.

Directions to Middletown Township Public Library can be found here. We hope to see you at the meeting on March 18th!

CJRLC Technology Group Meeting - January 29th - Social Networks: MySpace and Facebook

The next meeting of the CJRLC Technology Group will take place on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at the CJRLC Computer Lab. The meeting will run from 3:00 to 4:30 PM. We hope that you will join us!

Our meeting will feature a program on Social Networks. Amy Kearns, CJRLC Program Coordinator will talk about Facebook and Karen Klapperstuck, Director of the Bradley Beach Public Library will cover MySpace. Both of these fun, online social networking tools have great potential for libraries and professional development. The presenters will show you how to create an account and establish a dynamic presence in each of these networks.

New members are welcome! CJRLC Technology Group meetings are free and open to all attendees. The group is composed of librarians with varying degrees of technology experience. You don’t need to be a library technician to attend our meetings! Please bring your new tech ideas, discoveries and tips to share with other group members!

Directions to the CJRLC Computer Lab can be found here. Hope to see you at the meeting on January 29th!

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

November 20th Meeting Minutes

The minutes from the November 20th CJRLC Technology Group meeting are now available for download here.

November 20th Meeting Screencast!

We hope that you enjoyed our November 20th CJRLC Technology Group/NJLA Reference Section crossover meeting. Presenter Steve Garwood created a screencast of his presentation using Camtasia and you can access it directly from his presentation wiki. Here is your chance to experience Steve's tips on Web 2.0 Tools for Reference from the comfort of your own computer! Thanks to Steve for presenting and to all of you who participated in our meeting. We'll see you at our next meeting on January 29th!

January 2008 Meeting Date Change

The date of the January 2008 CJRLC Technology Group meeting has changed. Previously scheduled for January 15th, the meeting will now occur on January 29th.

September 18th Meeting Minutes

The minutes from the September 18, 2007 CJRLC Technology Group meeting are now available for download here.

November 20th Meeting: "Web 2.0 Tools for Reference" with Steve Garwood

The next meeting of the CJRLC Technology Group will take place on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 at the Monmouth County Library Marlboro branch. The meeting will run from 3:00 to 4:30 PM. This meeting is also a crossover meeting with the NJLA Reference Section. We hope that you will join us!

Our meeting will feature a program on Web 2.0 Tools for Reference. Steve Garwood of Rutgers University School of Communication, Information and Library Studies (SCILS) will present this informative workshop. Steve will focus on several useful Web 2.0 tools that can be used to facilitate reference work in different types of libraries. These include instant messaging, blogs, RSS, wikis, social bookmarking, social networking and screencasting. Steve is noted as one of New Jersey's most knowledgeable library technology gurus and his presentations are always as entertaining as they are enlightening.

New members are welcome! CJRLC Technology Group meetings are free and open to all attendees. This is the perfect opportunity to meet and network with other like-minded librarians from around the region. Please bring your new tech ideas, discoveries and tips to share with other group members!

Directions to MCL Marlboro branch can be found here. Hope to see you at the meeting on November 20th!

David Lisa Addresses CJRLC Tech Group Meeting

CJRLC Tech Group Meeting
Originally uploaded by amy_kearns

David Lisa, co-chair of the CJRLC Tech Group, talks about the exciting upcoming meetings and programs - including Nov. 20th with Steve Garwood.

NOTE LOCATION CHANGE: The meeting/program on Nov. 20th will take place at the MARLBORO BRANCH of the Monmouth County Library, from 3:00-4:30pm. Watch for more info soon!

CJRLC Tech Group Meeting

CJRLC Tech Group Meeting
Originally uploaded by amy_kearns

September 18th was an exciting hands-on meeting of the CJRLC Technology Group here at the CJRLC Freehold office!

Thanks to Melissa Hasbrouk and Laura Nawrocik of Mercer County Library, and Jennifer Worringer, also of Mercer County Library, who shared ListenNJ and Playaways with us!

I will post more about the meeting and about the upcoming meetings, as well as about how I blogged this photo directly from within flickr! ;-)

New found site, where to turn when you need information

Info, Reference, and Search 08.27.07

The sites you turn to when you need information.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2174689,00.asp

September 18th Meeting - Digital Audio Books: PlayAways and ListenNJ

The first meeting of the CJRLC Technology Group for the new season will take place on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 at the CJRLC Offices in Freehold. It will be held in the computer lab. The meeting will run from 3:00 to 5:00 PM.

Our meeting will feature a program on Digital Audio Books. This will be a hands-on workshop. Jennifer Worringer of Mercer County Library will be talking about PlayAways and there will also be a presentation on ListenNJ. Jennifer will be bringing several examples of PlayAways with her for everyone to try, so if you have not yet experienced this wonderful new audio book technology, please plan to come to the meeting! Our presenter on ListenNJ will also be answering questions about the service and giving a demonstration.

New members are welcome! CJRLC Technology Group meetings are free and open to all attendees. This is the perfect opportunity to meet and network with other like-minded librarians from around the region. Please bring your new tech ideas, discoveries and tips to share with other group members!

Directions to CJRLC offices can be found here. Hope to see you at the meeting on September 18th!

2007-2008 Tech Group Meeting Schedule!

The new CJRLC Technology Group returns for another year of fun!

This year's features include:

• Five meetings held in various locations around the region. Follow us around to each meeting!
• Workshops on Digital Audio Books, Web 2.0 Tools for Reference, Socal Software, Web Search Tips and more!
• The CJRLC Tech Group Website presented as a blog, including a RSS feed. Group members can participate in discussions on the blog.
• A continuing focus on real-world technology projects and innovations in library technology.
• Opportunities to network with other NJ library technology enthusiasts!

Here is the 2007-2008 meeting schedule for the CJRLC Tech Group:

September 18, 2007
November 20, 2007
January 29, 2008 (previously scheduled for January 15, 2008)
March 18, 2008
May 13, 2008

All meetings are held on Tuesdays and start at 3:00 PM. Meeting locations and topics to be announced. Postings will be made to this blog with further details.

See you at the next meeting!

May 15th Meeting - The Web Search Toolbox

The next meeting of the CJRLC Technology Group will take place on Tuesday, May 15, 2007 at Monmouth County Library Headquarters in Manalapan. The meeting will run from 3:00 to 5:00 PM.

Our meeting will feature a presentation by Robert Lackie of Rider University entitled The Web Search Toolbox. Robert will talk about practical tips and techniques designed to help you make more effective web searches. He will also talk about some of the best search engines and give pointers on more sophisticated web search techniques. Robert’s presentation will help you keep up with many high-quality sources of information on the Internet.

As with our previous meetings, new members are welcome and encouraged to attend Don't forget to bring your new tech ideas, discoveries and tips to share with other group members in our New & Noteworthy Technology section!

Directions to Monmouth County Library Headquarters can be found here: http://www.monmouthcountylib.org/location_directions.htm

See you on May 15th!

March 20th Meeting - Gaming in Libraries

The next meeting of the CJRLC Technology Group will take place on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 at the CJRLC Offices in Manalapan. It will be held in the computer lab. The meeting will run from 3:00 to 5:00 PM.

Our meeting will feature a program on Gaming in Libraries, which will be a hands-on workshop by Tyler Rousseau of Ocean County Library, Lakewood Branch. Tyler’s workshop will focus on different parts of gaming culture, including who is taking part in gaming and the different varieties of games that they are playing. Tyler will also talk about how libraries can attract additional patronage through gaming activities and he will demonstrate several different games live.

New members are welcome! CJRLC Technology Group meetings are free and open to all attendees. This is the perfect opportunity to meet and network with other like-minded librarians from around the region. Please bring your new tech ideas, discoveries and tips to share with other group members!

Directions to CJRLC offices can be found here. Hope to see you on March 20th!

Links from the January 16 Meeting

Hope you had a chance to make it to our January 16th meeting at Princeton Public Library! We had a great, free-wheeling discussion of new technology! Thanks go out to Janie Hermann for presenting a great beginner's workshop on Flickr and Princeton Public Library for hosting our meeting!

Here are some links shared by Rober Lackie during our meeting. Thanks Robert!

Time.com's 50 Coolest Websites
SEOmoz's Web 2.0 Awards
Internet Librarian 2006: Presentation Links