Conference Recap by Stephanie

Stephanie Race of NEFLIN wrote a great recap of her experiences at the conference.

It was even voted as the April "Blog Post of the Month" on the NEFLIN Blog. Check it out!

Share your FLA memories

Did you take pictures at FLA in St. Petersburg this year? If so, please share them with us by adding them to the FLA Flickr Group at: http://www.flickr.com/groups/floridalibrary/.

If you did attend - or missed the event, you can also visit our page and see photos of the conference today!

Twine helps fight information overload ...

Imagine having a personal assistant to help you organize, share and discover information from “networks of like-minded people” (Twine). Twine is the web application to help you do this! Twine will sort through an amalgamation of information that you have foraged for and accumulated over the years and try to make sense of it all. Nova Spivack released the beta version of Twine recently and said that he is “trying to amplify human intelligence with machine intelligence” (Thompson). Twine is working to help make sense of the machine-readable Semantic Web.

Want to be part of the Twine revolution? Register for the Invite Beta here. http://www.twine.com/

Please join us at the FLA Annual Conference...

The Internet Member Group is sponsoring: From 'Web Two Point Oh No' To Greatness: Using the Read/Write Web to Uncover Your Inner Leader.

The focus of the presentation is leadership using Web 2.0 tools. Learn about Web 2.0 applications and how you can use these low-tech tools to bring out your inner leader to accomplish collaborative initiatives at your library. Please join us on Wednesday, April 23rd in the Indian Key Room from 3:30-4:45 pm.

FLA 2008 Award Winners

The FLA award winners for 2008 have been announced. Congratulations to all of these terrific people and organizations. Award presentations will be at the Closing Session of the FLA conference, April 25, 2008 at the Tradewinds Resort Hotel in St. Pete Beach.

Library of the Year Award - Pasco County Library System, Linda Allen, Director
Leader of the Year Award - Bradley Ward, NEFLIN, Executive Director
Chavez-Herndandez Libraries Change People's Lives Award - Kathleen Mayo, Lee County Library System (new this year)
Betty Davis Miller Youth Services Award - Clearwater Public Library System, Barbara Pickell, Director
Trustees and Friends Award - Bettye Stevens Coney, Leesburg Friends of the Library
Public Library Web Site Award, Osceola Library System, Edward Kilroy, Director

Friends, Foundations & Boards Member Group Awards:
Newsletter of the Year, Friends of South County Regional Library (Lee County)
Special Projects Award - Friends of the Elsie Quirk Library (Sarasota County)
Outstanding Program Award - Friends of the Bloomingdale Regional Library (Hillsborough County)

FLA New Member's Round Table Present:

Get it Write: Make your resume work for you!

FLA session - Thursday, April 24 from 3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. in the Board Room. Tracey Reed, Chair, NMRT (and Computer Services Librarian, Clearwater Public Libraries), Vic Nunez (Reference Librarian- Bartow Public Library), and Cheryl Davis (Florida Institute of Technology), will be facilitating the session and also participating as reviewers.

Other reviewers include: Linda Chancey, (Director, Bartow Public Library), Kiersty Cox, (Instructor, University of South Florida SLIS), and Roxana Tovrea, (Assistant Director, Bartow Public Library).

The agenda is below. Attendees will be signing up for individual review sessions in 15 minute increments.

Agenda 3:30 - 3:45 p.m. General Q&A 3:45 - 5:00 p.m. Resume review sessions

New WorldCat Facebook Application!

A free WorldCat application for the Facebook social networking Web site is now available. The application lets Web users search the collections of WorldCat libraries and monitor favorite WorldCat lists—their own lists, or those created by other users—right from personalized Facebook pages. Search results are returned from WorldCat.org.

The application includes a Home screen with WorldCat search box, as well as quick links to WorldCat searches based on personal interests a user has input in his or her Facebook profile. The application also includes tabbed access to:

- a built-in advanced WorldCat search
- a "Something to Read" panel that displays books recently added to other users' WorldCat lists
- a panel where the user can invite other Facebook friends to install the WorldCat application

On a user's Facebook profile page, the application adds a custom Facebook "box" with basic WorldCat search. The profile's owner can expand or collapse the box's visibility, and reposition it to a preferred location by dragging its title bar.

If you wish to install the Facebook application use either of these options:

1. Follow the link from the WorldCat plug-ins page at http://worldcat.org/toolbars/

2. Log into a Facebook account and install the application directly from http://apps.facebook.com/worldcat/