Summaries of SLA

Nicole C. Engard runs the What I Learned Today blog (http://www.web2learning.net/) and had three good entries on the SLA 2008 conference in Seattle. Here's brief blurbs from each - and I found the one on what the iSchool at the University of Washington the most fascinating.

SLA Going Green for Annual

So, I thought it sounded like a great idea - no bottled water, no handouts and several other changes to have the SLA Annual conference put a smaller nature killing footprint on Seattle and the world. I was wrong!! (cont)

SLA2008: The Promise of 2.0

Olaf Ernst, our speaker for this talk, mentioned right off that integrated econtent is king - without having your content online you can’t have added value to your content - at least not the kind of added value he was talking about today. (cont)

SLA2008: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in … Library School?

This panel was very very insightful. The panelists were all recent grads of the University of Washington’s iSchool. They were Alex Berta, Rebecca Blakewood, Ann
Glusker, Elizabeth Gould, and Beth Sanderson. Joe Janes and Nancy Gershenfeld professors at the iSchool gave us an intro.

University of Washington was the first school that decided to call itself an iSchool. So what does iSchool mean? For the U of Washington, it’s something that allows them to make their programs stronger because so many disciplines are all learning together. They have information science, information management, library and information science and others all in the one school. (cont)