Witnessing NSDL Annual Meetings over the years, I’ve seen a natural transition in the themes and topics that bubble to the surface. In the early days, a lot of conversation formed around the nuts and bolts of metadata standards, repository architectures and how best to search in a distributed environment. Now, the themes have moved […]

(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 […]

In the preface to the Proceedings of the 12th World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (E-Learn 2007, held in Quebec City), Conference Co-Chairs Theo J. Bastiaens, of the Open University of the Netherlands, and Saul Carliner, of Concordia University, Canada, observed: “Satisfying e-learners with the experience of e-learning— in addition […]

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

(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 […]

Social networking tools and software were prime subjects at this years’ Western Regional Educause. Here is a short list of sites that people were talking about in their presentations. Some of them I had heard of, some of them not, but all of them were fun to check out and to ponder their […]