Internet Librarian 2002: Navigating in Turbulent Waters

Gary Price and I spoke at Internet Librarian 2002: Navigating in Turbulent Waters, and I brought my trusted digital camera along for the ride. I got to spend a few days, not only with Gary, but with Jenny, and Aaron. I also said “Hi” to Marylaine, got to see Both Peters, and enjoyed the warm desert sun before returning to the cold and dark Midwest.
I don\’t have time for a long write up, but below are my pictures and comments.
Thanks to everyone for making this the best conference yet.

Note:All images are thumbnails that link to full size pictures.

This is the room we spoke in, I think it was set up to hold about 1,000 people,
and was maybe half full for our talk.
This a looking from the back to the front….

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And this is looking from the stage to the crowd.

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Jenny \”Shifty\” Levine and
her talk on Gadgets with Barbara Fullerton. Not a good talk to go to when
you are poor and already have gadget envy….

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Peter Morville also spoke alone on IA stuff, another good talk.

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Darlene Fichter gave a
nice talk on Blogging as well, but her angle was a bit different. She covered
how they can be used for knowledge management in libraries. It was a great
talk, and she had some good ideas.

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The Good Peter Vs. Bad Peter talk was quite fun. They talked
about some interesting ideas for web design and answered alot of good questions.

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My last night there we had a nice reception, pool side, for everyone.
Spent a few hours with Aaron , Jenny, and 2 Law Librarians from San Fransisco,
a good time was had by all, and we closed the party.

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I snuck away for an hour or two to hike up the moutain that holds Palm Springs
in place. I managed to snap alot of rather uninteresting pictures, but a
few of them are worth sharing.
This is the skeleton of a dead cactus, all that was left was the spines.
You know the drought is really bad when the cactii are dying.

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Another dying caturs, looked like pudding, but felt like leather.

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I\’m not sure what this this is, but it had these neat little \”flowers\”. They
weren\’t actually flowers, but rather some kind of fancy leaf I think.

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When hiking, the proper foot gear is essential. Rockport dress shoes are
not the proper foot gear.

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A look down at Palm Springs from a few hundred feet up.

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I chased this darn lizard around for about 5 minutes to get this picture.
Those things are fast!

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Elevators make for funny pictures.

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Shifty and Aaron try to play Ping Pong in the dark. The competition was fierce
for about an hour that night, I think The Hard Core Librarian beat us both.

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Palm Springs was quite nice. I am a big fan of the desert southwest, but
had never been to Palm Springs, here\’s a few shots that take a look around.
The first two come from Peter Morville of Semantic Studios
and The Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture