Internet Librarian 2005

Internet Librarian’s 2005 conference is coming up soon and I’m hoping to attend. It’s October 24-26 in Monterey, California. I attended last year’s conference and really enjoyed hearing people like Gary Price, Chris Sherman, Raul Valdes-Perez, Greg Notess, Rita Vine, Mary Ellen Bates and other prominent librarians and information professionals who are involved in search. I also got to reconnect with former colleagues and former library school classmates.

This year’s program again features a couple of search related tracks. On Monday, October 24th, Track A is called Information Discovery & Search. Be sure to check out Mary Ellen Bates’ Thirty Search Tips in 40 Minutes.

On Wednesday, October 26th, Track A is called Search Engines (SEs) & Beyond. It features some of the people I’ve named above as well as others such as R.J. Pittman, CEO of Groxis. I had a chance to meet him earlier this year and was impressed by his vision of clustering and visual search.

Last year’s event had a frenetic energey about blogging. As much as I’m a fan of blogging, hopefully this year’s event will not be quite so blog-heavy. I say that only because there are so many other topics to cover and I think by now most Internet Librarian attendees will have a good understanding of blogging.

My only complaint about this year’s program is about the keynote addresses. Out of five keynote addresses (including one evening session), three of them are about Google. Seems a bit Google-heavy to me, but maybe the speakers think that having Google’s name in the title of their talks will draw more attendees.

If you’re headed to IL this year, drop me a line and let me know you’ll be there.

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