Smithsonian Libraries

TELDAP 2009 International Conference, Taipei, Taiwan

During the week of February 23-27, 2009 TELDAP International Conference held in conjunction with Global Research Library 2020 and MCN Taiwan Meeting in Taipei, Taiwan.

TELDAP is a nation-wide and centrally-funded project to bring together the cultural and scientific projects in the digital environment.

The TELDAP organizers did an excellent job of bringing together a world-wide group of collaborators to share their own experiences and work with participating TELDAP institutions to analyze the work of TELDAP.

Myself and Michael Edson, Director of Web Strategy in the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) were invited to give an overview of library, archives and museum collaborations, and web strategy for the MCN Taiwan portion of the meeting. Our session, attended by about 150 people, was well received with many comments and questions. You can find my presentation, “A Natural History of Unicorns: Smithsonian Collaborations in the World of Library, Archives, and Museums” is available online.

• TELDAP 2009 Home page
• GRL 2020 Home page

—Martin Kalfatovic

Strategic planning

What will the libraries look like in the future? Staff met this morning to take a first look at a draft strategic plan which included ideas about collaboration, new modes of connecting with users, values, and developing expertise with emerging technologies. —Elizabeth Periale

Libraries hosts a Make-A-Book activity for "Take Your Kids to Work Day"

The Libraries hosted over 20 children and their families at today's Make-A-Book activity in the National Museum of Natural History. Children were able to make books, make their own stickers, and decorate their books with decorative papers, markers, stickers and rubber stamps. The event proved to be very popular with children and their parents!

Richard Naples and Phuong Pham from Preservation Services demonstrate how to make a book

 

Presentation for the Boston Library Consortium

   
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I, along with my colleague Chris Freeland of the Missouri Botanical Garden, was invited by the Boston Library Consortium (BLC) to make presentations on how the Biodiversity Heritage Library has created a portal to biodiversity literature from our diverse collections.

Attending the presentation were over 50 staff from BLC institutions (MIT, UMass-Amherst, Brandeis, MBL/WHOI, Boston Public Library, etc.), including Boston Public Library president Bernard Margolis.

We had an enthusiastic group that asked a number of great questions.

- Martin Kalfatovic

My presentation is available online at SlideShare

Global Library of Life: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Boston Library Consortium Meeting. Boston Public Library. 18 March 2008. Boston, MA.

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