Local search can be used for a wide range of purposes, from a simple contact look-up to comparing markets. This session covers some of the newest and unexpected resources for finding hidden online local information.

Author of six online research books, including Super Searchers Cover the World and Mining for Gold on the Internet, Bates provides tips for conducting business research online and staying current on new business and finance information.

Join Flickr members and comment, tag, and add notes to approximately 3,000 photographs from two photo collections with no known copyright restrictions. This pilot project hopes to make more people aware of photos in the Library’s collection and give them a better understanding of how social tagging and community input could benefit both users of collections and the LC. Hear more about the development and implementation of the pilot, including selection of photos, challenges, pilot goals, and experience to date.

Learn basic photo-editing skills that will let you tune your digital images like a pro—and see these skills in action online in Piknik and with Google’s Picasa. Use these simple tools to take your snapshots to the next level: perfecting the crop, lighting, and contrast. You can then publish your photos to the web or to your blog with the click of a button. All for free!

This is a case study of a library within an organization that educates and serves its constituents and their families affected with AD/HD. It uses InMagic to help publish numerous newsletters, magazines, and newsfeeds and to maintain information portals. Hear how CHADD manages the information influx and provides flexibility for searching, reporting and configuring with minimal IT support.

This cybertour provides a quick intro to the resources and facilities available on Info Island International in Second Life. Seeing is understanding, so join us and view the main hub of the Info Island Archipelago, where libraries, educational institutions, and other cultural organizations reside. Come see where libraries, librarians, and library patrons are calling their virtual home.

The Library of Congress, through its website, offers free public access to more than 11 million rare primary source materials, including maps, photographs, documents, films, sound recordings, and more. Learn about the Library’s Teachers’ page, crammed with innovative materials that bring the power of primary sources into the classroom.

This is an opportunity to meet the editors of Information Today, Inc.’s many publications: Dick Kaser from Computers in Libraries, Marydee Ojala from ONLINE, Barbara Brynko from Information Today, Robert Berkman from Information Advisor, Paula Hane from ITI’s NewsBreaks, and Barbara Quint from Searcher. The editors are on hand to offer brief presentations, followed by a Q&A forum for the readers to interact with the editors about editorial coverage, current topics of interest, and what readers would like to see in each of the publications.

Our experienced podcaster talks about podcasting—what is it and why librarians would be interested in this new technology and media. He illustrates the technology and provides examples and links of interest.

This cybertour presents tips and techniques for using WordPress to build a library website. It discusses how to style a WP theme by modifying CSS and PHP files, how to easily make changes, how to work with PHP without any prior experience, and more. Technical background is NOT required!

With the plethora of published information available, it is important that researchers are able to quickly and easily get the information relevant to their field of study. Online scientific research platforms can aid them by providing personalization features to alert them to favorite journal issues as soon as they are published. Using a case study, this session illustrates how personalization on online research platforms can help to accelerate scientific discovery.

With the declining status of English as the predominant language on the web, we need to take advantage of language tools available online, including translation capabilities for a rapidly increasing number of languages. Learn more about tools for searching in non-English and non-Western characters, language acquisition tools, and new tools such as Google Translate, with its very impressive ability to translate both your search query and the results.

Through a case study of the College of Family Physicians of Canada, hear how you can build a library database using .net technology, and how it works well with databases populated by narrative: Family medicine is shared through stories from family physicians, patients, and their communities. Learn to promote your organization by "pushing " non-traditional content to diverse audiences.

Hear about great ways that wikis can be used in libraries and the information industry. Learn about resources for creating your own wiki and tips for making them successful in your environment.

This cybertour looks at some common interface design mistakes and provides tips and easy solutions that can be put in place at your library. Learn how a dash of JavaScript here or a revised layout configuration there can make for an improved user experience and interfaces that don’t turn to the dark side.

If an ebook device can convince this book-loving skeptic to use it, there’s got to be something to it. The Sony eReader PRS500 is the next step in ebook technology featuring the near-print quality eInk technology, weighing in at only 8.8oz/250g and an iTunes-like interface for transferring content. Hear about this new technology and areas that still need to improve.

Want a glimpse at what the future might look like? Clark uses an example of a partnership with Montana PBS, various independent filmmakers, The Media/Theatre Arts Department at Montana State University, and Montana State University libraries to illustrate a next-gen digital library. He discusses how the library builds/programs/codes the site and has created a content management architecture (metadata, data preservation architecture).