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ALA 2009 is in Chicago — I scanned through the program for sessions that might be Community Informatics related. Maybe I’ll be able to sneak into a couple. It might also be useful to cross-ref with the full program for contact info / citations.

In no special order:

Chicago’s Ethnic Mosaic: Cultural Identity and Neighborhood Change Sunday 8:00 am – 12:00 pm 72a

Information Technology and Communities of Color:  Issues and  Opportunities in a Global Context Sunday 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm 78b

Closing the Gap: Making Information Literacy Seamless Across K-16 Saturday 8:00 am – 10:00 am 57c

Electronic Resource Management Systems: The Promise and Disappointment Monday 8:00 am – 10:00 am 87a [description totally ambiguous, may be of interest]

Collecting for Digital Repositories: New Ways to Disseminate and Share Information Sunday 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm 82c

Online Tools Build Communities Sunday 10:30 am – 12:00 pm 73c

Traditional Cultural Expression and Libraries Saturday 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm 67c

Scenarios from the Copyright Advisory Network Monday 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm 91b

Black Studies and Information Technology Sunday 8:00 am – 12:00 pm 71c

Political Engagement: Facilitating Greater Participation in Civil Society Saturday 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm 63a

Unleashing the Undigitized: Promoting and Accessing Traditional Historical Resources in the Age of Google Sunday 10:30 am – 12:00 pm 76a

With Respect & Dignity: Serving Homeless People in Library Communities Sunday 10:30 am – 12:00 pm 74a

Research Into Practice: Latino Perception of Public Libraries and their Public Library Use Sunday 10:30 am – 12:00 pm 74a

Resources: Funding, gathering, and Digitizing and Providing Access to Cultural heritage-Chair’s Program

Civic Engagement: A Success Model for Libraries Serving Older Adults Monday 10:30 am – 12:00 pm 88b

Open Access Digital Initiatives in the Humanities: Creation, Dissemination, Preservation Saturday 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm 67b

Gov Docs Kids Group: Learn and Have Fun with Government Resources Monday 10:30 am – 12:30 pm 90b

It’s Not the Internet, It’s a Window on the World–Closed to Seniors: A Cost-Effective Model Program to Overcome the Digital Divide for Older Patrons Monday 10:30 am – 12:00 pm 89b

Urban Indian Culture Keepers: Reaching Out and Making Intergenerational Connections Saturday 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm 63a

Local governments and Libraries: working Together for Better Communities  — Sat., 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

and finally, a necessary addition to any conference track: When Is Nice Too Nice? Solutions for Disengaging from the Talkative Patron Saturday 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm 70a

I want a media museum. It is a exhibit museum. It is not Flickr.

It holds media of all types — text, photo, video, audio. I lay out media around a theme — here is a custom-designed page that presents video, audio, text about Chicago. Here’s another that uses some of the same elements, but it’s exhibit about wayfinding.

The exhibits can tour. You can use have some of my pieces to use in yours, but provenance (not scarcity!) is enforced.

Maybe you can comment on things. Maybe you can’t. I suppose you could suggest new pieces for my collection, but it’s my choice whether they appear right away or not, or if I even read your suggestions. Or maybe on this one exhibition we can all work together, because I’ve invited you.

Here’s what the museum looked like in its last revision, if you wanted to know.

Here’s everything in the highest resolution I’ve got.

The future digital humanities museum.

Sign my guestbook?

Does such a thing exist?

Looking to join a buying club this fall, starting 1 September. Know a lot of 3-4 person households who could benefit, too.

Photos of a bulk room serving ~20 people:

A library of food?

It’s much easier to eat new things if they’re readily at hand, in large quantities.

(hm, a bit blurry)

Here are 4 search plugins for the Ann Arbor District Library catalog. They require Firefox 2.

• AADL by keyword — probably the most useful of the four, and perhaps the only one you need, since it searches several fields
• AADL by title
• AADL by author
• AADL by subject — this one is probably the least useful unless you are familiar with the AADL’s mutated Library of Congress taxonomy