The annual Code4Lib conference was earlier this week, and as always, it was inspiring and motivating. This was my 5th Code4Lib, and it has become an important part of my professional life. Talks range from the very high-level to the very detailed, and it is testament to this community that they reliably inspire no matter […]
The past two days, I have been at CUNY’s 23rd annual IT Conference. It’s a conference I enjoy, even though it’s geared toward IT professionals, which I am decidedly not. Nonetheless, the smattering of librarian presentations is usually enough to keep me occupied and contented throughout the conference. I did catch some of the presentations […]
This week, Carrie Jedlicka and I presented at SpringyCamp, the annual Springshare conference. Our talk was called Creating a Fun Library Tour with Augmented Reality and LibGuides! If you have a Springshare login, you can watch the video here. It was fun, although I was nervous because there were ~300 people there! Carrie handled it […]
Code4Lib 2023 wrapped up today. I attended in person this year, as it was nearby, in Princeton, New Jersey. As always, it was really great. One of my favorite things about this conference is that I always go home feeling a lot more optimistic about my profession. I was happy about the large number of […]
My presentation yesterday at the CUNY IT Conference went fine; surprisingly I was not particularly nervous, which was unusual for me, and very welcome. The CUNY IT Conference is a bit unique, because while it is decidedly aimed at technical people, the talks are usually not particularly technical. But I just went for it and […]
On Friday, I’ll be presenting at the CUNY IT Conference on our library’s efforts to apply some features of Vue.js to our library webpage. It’s a one-hour session, which is really a lot of Vue (maybe too much?) for one sitting, but I’ll do my best. It’s interesting that there’s a lot to say about […]
Last week I attended Smashing Conference, which is apparently a conference of somewhat long standing in the field of front-end development, or so I am told. I opted for the online version, rather than in person, because it was cheaper, and because I was out of town on the conference days. So I logged in […]
PyGotham is a fine conference, but it is online again this year, and I have frankly reached my limit on how many online events I can attend. At this point, my eyeballs rebel at the prospect of watching another Zoom presentation. So I am considering some other things. Like PyCon. PyCon 2023 in Salt Lake […]
Well, Code4Lib wrapped up today, and it was as good as I had hoped it would be. It’s wonderful to talk to librarians who share similar responsibilities, interests and preoccupations to mine. I feel a great deal of mutual support and empathy for these colleagues who are on similar paths. The conference sessions got me […]
I am very excited to be attending Code4Lib’s upcoming conference, taking place in May in Buffalo. It will be my first return to an in person conference since the before the pandemic. I am excited about all of it: the train ride to Buffalo, staying in a hotel, the conference sessions, the socializing. There is […]
