Sarah Giersch’s photos from the poster session of the 2007 Annual Meeting can be found here. Above, Kim Lightle of Middle School Pathway whoops it up with Susan Van Gundy of NSDL Core Integration.

Bob Peck Chevrolet building, Ballston, VA
There isn’t much that’s distinctive about Arlington, VA. The rooms and snacks at NSDL’s conference hotel, the Westin, were great - they were just as good as in any Westin anywhere - but that’s the point. Arlington is anywhere and nowhere. Except for the building across the […]

(l-r) Panelists Sherry Hsi, Rob Rothfarb, Mick Khoo, and Mimi Recker
Why do people come to your website? What do they do there, and what could you be doing better? The 2007 NSDL Annual Meeting panel “Beyond Webmetrics” showed how to seek answers to those questions by gathering user data from a variety of […]

Michael Sirois’ photos of the 2007 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing are posted here.

When the 2007 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing convened on Monday morning, the difference was apparent. Most of the 400 people in the room were younger than 30, and pale-skinned guys were in the minority. There was a roughly equal mix of black and Latino students, and there were more women than men. […]

(L-R) GameCATS: Michael Eagle, Lane Harrison, Eve Powell
Eve Powell has loved computer gaming as long as she can remember, and she knew long ago that she wanted to learn computer game design in college. There weren’t many opportunities for game enthusiasts at the University of North Carolina- Charlotte (UNCC) when she arrived, so Powell […]

Sarah Giersch of NSDL Core Integration attended this meeting with Andrew Walker and Deonne Johnson of Utah State University. We represented Digital Libraries go to School (DLgtS), a three-year project which was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2006 (ESI #0554440) to develop a professional development workshop curriculum that enables in- and pre-service […]

Miss Honey Bee, aka Beautrice Lennartz (1904-1998), was a beloved Boulder music teacher who lunched often in the Boulderado Hotel. Her life-sized portrait hangs near the top of the hotel’s five-story grand stairway, which connects the 160 rooms in the 1909 building to an opulent lobby with a stained glass skylight for a roof.
Miss […]

Tamara Sumner describes the Strand Maps service while NSDL co-PIs (l-r) Kaye Howe, Dean Krafft, and Kate Wittenberg listen. Over 50 of NSDL’s leaders met in Boulder this week.
NSDL’s Pathways partners gathered in Boulder, CO on August 1 and 2 to share stories and trade good ideas. NSDL’s Core Integration staff joined staff […]

Please excuse this diversion — the following post doesn’t have anything to do with what we’ve seen recently at conferences — but the post “Shrek Gets Fired” (May 23, below) opens a can of worms, and I can’t resist. In a free society where delicious food is cheap, plentiful, and heavily advertised, how should we […]