Edtechkat

Here’s where I’m going during my travels in March and April.

I’ll be posting to my @libsmatter Twitter account as I go.

The very, very generous VALA, who are sponsoring my travel scholarship to look at Alternative Discovery Layers and Open Source Software, have asked me to prepare an original paper for the VALA Conference 2010 - Connections.Content.Conversations. I’ll be looking at what the systems studied do technically and whether organisations that implement them have anything in common that makes them early adopters - “how come you did this, but the library down the road didn’t?”. Some original material that needs to be in the conference paper won’t be tweeted or posted here.

I’ll also be researching material for a Masters of Information Management at Curtin University. My thesis is tentatively titled: Taking matters into our own hands: Influencing factors and concerning factors for libraries that developed Open Source Library Application Software between 1999 and 2009.

I’ll be presenting a plenary session at Library Camp East on 26 March and be part of a panel session about Unconferences at Computers in Libraries on 31 March. I’m really excited to finish my trip by speaking at the U Game U Learn symposium at Delft in the Netherlands on 23 April. I’ll be asking “What kind of better than free is your library?”.

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Here’s a map of where I’m going - it will probably not show up in my RSS feed -

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