Dinah Sanders has been working the web for the last decade and is a member of the advisory boards for San Jose State University's School of Library and Information Science (for technology in courses) and for SXSW Interactive Conference. She wears her geek badge with pride.
June 6, 2008 :
The view from webgeek central
I attend the web technology conference South By SouthWest every year and always come away with a good overview of new patterns in the way people are using and developing for the web. This year was certainly no exception.
We hope you enjoy this presentation, Trends from the Front Lines of Change, which will give […]
Hi there! Did you miss us?
You’ve just experienced a common ailment called the blog lull, familiar to many as a symptom of life getting very busy for that blogger. In this case our lull was a result of the preparation for and multitude of questions subsequent to the annual Innovative Users Group conference. We had […]
Watch out for the stairs, they’re out to get you!
Or at least so I have concluded after slipping on my front stoop and breaking my ankle (bone chips, fortunately, rather than a severe break) back on February 12th. I’m back at work now and hopping about on crutches, which are tedious, but better than nothing.
On […]
For all the discussion of radical change in librarianship, it’s not hard to find themes which go back generations. One inspiring thinker is Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan, the great Indian librarian who wrote his Five Laws back in 1931:
Books are for use.
Every reader his book.
Every book its reader.
Save the time of the reader.
The library is a […]
Hi! I’m Dinah Sanders and I really truly am named after Alice’s cat in Alice In Wonderland. Maybe that set me down a bookish path from an early age…
Prior to getting my library degree, I worked at and even owned my own bookstore, but for all my fondness for the printed word, the Web is […]
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