Brownbags
From ml2sig
"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." - Douglas Adams
Brownbag sessions are open to the public
Past Brownbags
Software and Formats for Effectively Communicating Your Ideas
- Monday, January 24th
- Noon to 1:00 PM
- Gallery Lab, Hatcher (Note NEW location)
- The possibilities when delivering a presentation are more vast than ever. Lightning talks and PechaKucha presentation formats are cropping up in academic conferences, and Ignite has been a popular event here in Ann Arbor. Keynote, Prezi and other software and websites are pushing us all to think beyond Powerpoint. Easy ways of sharing slides, both technological and in terms of intellectual property, are also available. Mobile devices, from your smartphone to your tablet, make it possible to pass content to a projector without a laptop or desktop computer being involved.
- Kat Hagedorn presented recently at the DLF Fall Forum on an iPad. She will demonstrate how she did this, and talk about what went well and what didn't.
The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet
- Monday, Sept. 20, 2010
- Noon - 1pm
- 806 Hatcher
- We discussed the cover story in the September 2010 issue of Wired: "The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet." by Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff. You can read the story online.
Browser Extensions
- Browser Extensions
- Monday, Mar 15, 2010
- Noon - 1pm
- 806 Hatcher
- Join us in Hatcher Room 806 as Julie Piacentine talks about browser plug-ins to enhance your productivity and Jake Glenn shares information about Zotero 2. We'll have time at the end for you to share your favorite ways to extend the functionality of your browser! Although some of these plug-ins may only work with Firefox, feel free to share examples of plug-ins for other browser flavors.
The Creepy Treehouse
- (more on what the heck that means)
- Lead by Katie Dover-Taylor & Emily Hamstra
- Monday, January 19, 2009
- Noon - 1pm
- 806 Hatcher South
Gaming
- David Carter
- Discussion of the new Video Game Archive at the AAEL
- Monday, November 17, 2008
- Noon to 1pm
- 806 Hatcher South
Flickr
- Suzanne Chapman, Molly Kleinman, & Julie Weatherbee
- Short show & tell + open discussion of other ways we can use flickr to show off our collections & services. Also how we can be more systematic in our tagging & use of library flickr accounts
- Monday, October 20th
- Noon to 1pm
- 806 Hatcher South
Blogging
- Monday, September 15, 2008
- Noon to 1pm
- 100 Hatcher
Dave Carter moderated a panel and lead a discussion on blogging. Panel members included Paul Courant, Patricia Anderson, Suzanne Chapman, Sue Wortman, Ken Varnum and Dave Carter.
Drupal
- Monday, August 18, 2008
- Noon to 1pm
- 100 Hatcher
Drupal - Jeremy York discussed how SPO used Drupal to revamp their Intranet.
Second Life
- July
Health Science Library staff will present their acclaimed Second Life skit and engage a discussion about the use of the virtual reality world in library services.
Twitter Panel
- Monday, June 16, 2008
- Noon to 1pm
- 100 Hatcher
Twitter - you’ve likely heard about this micro-blogging site, but what is it exactly, and what can you do with it? Join moderator Suzanne Chapman and panelists Molly Kleinman, John Weise, Kat Hagedorn, Devon Persing, Gillian Mayman, and Patricia Anderson as they talk about the different ways that library staff use Twitter for their personal and professional networking.
Mirlyn API (application program interface)
- Monday, May 19, 2008
- Noon to 1pm
- 100 Hatcher
The library's Mirlyn system is home to millions of records describing books and journals, electronic and paper items, holdings and URLs -- but these data are locked behind Mirlyn's single web interface. What would you do -- what would you build -- if you could easily hook into that ocean of data?
At the ML2SIG Brown Bag on Monday, May 19th, Bill Dueber will describe just such an API he's building on top of Mirlyn. We'll briefly look at how it's put together, linger over what functionality it provides, and take our time showing an example of how anyone can use simple javascript to build their own mini-application.
Then comes the real fun: a discussion during which we'll brainstorm ways to use this new system to mash up Mirlyn data with whatever else we can scour from the University or wider Internet.
Marketing with Web 2.0
- Monday, April 21, 2008
- Noon - 1pm, 100 Hatcher
Molly Kleinman will lead a discussion on how to use Web 2.0 to market library programs and services.
Intralibrary Communication
- Monday, March 17, 2008
- Noon - 1pm, 100 Hatcher
Over the last year we’ve talked about how Web 2.0 technology can be used to reach out to our library users. How about turning that inward? How can this technology be used to help us become better communicators between our colleagues, departments and locations? Is there a better way to centralize our communication so we don’t have to rely on finding an elusive email in our over packed inbox?
Join this discussion/presentation led by Sue Wortman which will focus on what other libraries are doing about office communication and offer a chance to brainstorm possible solutions on how emerging technology can be used to pull together all the threads of information which bombard us daily. Here are the slides for this presentation and here are a couple of links from the presentation that don't show up in the PDF version:
- University of Maryland Library Staff Newsletter Blog
- DePauw University Library Newsletter Blog
- UC Berkeley Library Staff Web Page
- Cornell Library Staff Web Page
- University of Minnesota Library Staff Wiki
Creating a Culture of Communication - for continued discussion, ideas and minutes from the March 17th brown bag.
Open Discussion of Library2.0 Topics
- Monday February 18, 2008
- Noon - 1pm, 100 Hatcher
Microformats
- Monday January 28, 2008
- Noon - 1pm, 100 Hatcher
Jacob Glenn will present a brief introduction to microformats, a simple, lightweight means of publishing structured data in XHTML. He'll cover the basic types of microformats and demonstrate their use in a web browser. He'll then examine microformats as a component of various strategies to expose bibliographic data on the web, in the interest of provoking discussion about how the library can make our collections more visible to the web at large. Slides are available here (8.8 MB PDF).
We will also discuss possible topics for future brownbags.
