Manitoba Libraries Conference 2005 Day 2

Whew! Day 2 of the Manitoba Libraries Conference has come and gone bringing to an end the blogfest I have participating in the last two days. These are today's posts:

• Manitobia, Mark Leggott
• Riding shotgun down the avalanche: strategies for keeping current, Roy Tennant
• Tools for the non-programmer working with the web, Peter Scott
• Navigating the library catalogue: how FRBR helps our users, Christine Olive

Today had to be my favourite day of the conference. This is partly due to the sessions I attended and also due to the opportunity to hang out with Peter Scott. Peter taught me HTML coding, Netscape Composer, Blogging and RSS. He's one of the reasons I am doing the work I am doing, so it was fun to talk to him and scheme with him over lunch. I also finally had the opportunity to meet Roy Tennant whom I have heard of and read but not yet heard speak. He is a very compelling speaker and struck just the right balance between humour and education for this conference. Today was interesting on the blogging front. Once attendees understood what the bloggers were doing they started to ask when posts were going up and where they could see our notes! I'm almost sorry that the conference has ended. I say "almost" because now I have the time to read what I've missed!