Quick web resources I picked up at CIL2008

During the first week in April I attended the Computers In Libraries Conference in Washington DC. The conference was wonderful and I highly recommend it to anyone working in a library-public, school or academic who is interested in keeping the library up-to date with the world of technology and innovation. It was filled with wonderful speakers from all over the world who work in the library world. They each brought their own area of expertise, and ideas. I attended the pre and post conference as well as the full conference. So all together I attended 18 different sessions, plus listened to 3 keynote speakers. I picked up a lot of great ideas so I thought that I would share with you and post a list of my favorite sites to help you turn your library into a 2.0 library!


http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/presentations/2008/20080406CIL-Gaming.pdf - This is Jenny Levine’s presentation from the conference. Jenny works for ALA and is very passionate about gaming in libraries. It is well worth your time to click through her presentation!

http://del.icio.us/tag/tools -Delicious tag for tools

http://tinyurl.com/ -Tiny URL, Use it to create shorter links.

http://mashable.com -The social network grid. Use The Grid to find Mashable members on your favorite social networks.

http://www.pageflakes.com/ - Pageflakes is your personalized start page with news readers, rss feeds and various other features.

http://web2.0stylr.com/stylr.aspx -Logo Maker just enter your text, select your options and you have a logo in the Web 2.0 STYLr.

http://www.libraryelf.com/ -Let Elf help you manage your library loans and holds.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ -is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.
www.eyespot.com - mix, edit and publish your media…FREE

http://www.odiogo.com/ -It transforms news sites and blog posts into audio files ready to download and play anywhere, anytime, on any device.

http://blip.tv/ -a video sharing service designed for creators of user-generated content.

www.slideshare.net/ -the best way to share your presentations with the world.

http://www.techcrunch.com/ -Group-edited blog about technology start-ups, particularly the Web 2.0 sector.

http://clipnabber.com/ -ClipNabber downloads videos