CUA SLIS Symposium 2010

I will be attending the second annual CUA SLIS Symposium, "Bridging the Spectrum" to present on "Government 2.0 for the Competitive Intelligence Professional." My 15 minute talk will focus on how to mine the governments' use of social media tools for access to the latest information, focusing specifically on Twitter and data.gov.

I'm excited to explore this area as it is just evolving.

SLA Centennial Conference

SLA conference is here! I'll be attending sessions on Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday so it will make for quite a busy week coming up.

My Contributed Paper is also online and available here.

My schedule looks something like this:

Saturday: How to Become a Federal Librarian

Sunday: Exhibits and Colin Powell's opening keynote

Tuesday: SLA Contributed Papers session...where I'll be presenting followed by a special "Food for Thought" luncheon at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History and behind the scenes tour of Smithsonian digitization efforts. If I can keep the momentum going I hope to attend the Mid-Atlantic Chapters reception for the free drink, tarot card reading, and fun networking atmosphere.

Wednesday: Mary Ellen Bates' session on "Beating the Pants off Google" followed by another trip to the exhibits, the closing session, and finish off the conference with a DC Chapter Young Professionals Happy Hour!

You can also follow all my conference thoughts on Twitter!

Back from Vacation!

I just got back from the most wonderful vacation the other week! I traveled down to North Carolina for one of my best friend's weddings. First, Matt and I stopped off at Durham to visit some of his old grad school friends. The next morning we hit the road to the Murphy's mountain house outside of Mars Hill North Carolina in the Pisgah National Forest. The first couple of days were spent up at the mountain house and included my first white water rafting experience. Later on in the week we headed down to Asheville for sightseeing, shopping, the bachelorette party and of course the wedding!!

Best Practices for Government Librarians 2009: Change: Managing It, Surviving It, Thriving on It

You can find the article I wrote for this year's Best Practices document here.

My article is on page 60 of the pdf file.

The "P" in the Government Printing Office

I had no idea they were still doing marbling!

Twitter for Info Pros

I've started experimenting some more with Twitter...you can follow me at klyall.

Government Transparency and You

Simple and easy to understand video by OMB Watch.