GCL Blog Watch

Presentations and general musings from the recent Internet Librarian Conference, held on the 16th and 17th of October, may be found at "Librarian In Black"

Elsewhere, SirsiDynix's new OPAC interface for Symphony, 'e-Library', has been reviewed by Daniel Griffin in Information World Review.

[Presentation] Libraries To Go - Mobile Technology in Libraries - While devices like PDAs, portable phones, and digital music players have been on the scene for almost a decade, mobile devices have now reached an unprecedented level of popularity. Devices like the iPhone, iPod touch, Blackberry, and Kindle, are no longer simply tools for communication--they are now a primary channel through which everyday people interact with news, music, blogs, wikis, television, video, books, academic content, the world wide web, and more. Platforms like Windows Mobile, iPhone, Blackberry, Symbian and the new Google Android will continue to challenge information service organizations to deliver content in new ways, and embed services within these virtual environments.