The CLA Access 2012 Conference committee has begun posting all their talks on their Youtube channel. Here’s a link for those of you interested in watching our presentation on 3D printing at Dalhousie University Libraries:
Notable speakers at the CLA Access Conference in Montreal
On October 20th fellow SIM student Michael Groenendyk and I went to Access 2012 and presented our Killam Library 3D printing and scanning pilot project to a room of over a hundred tech-focused Information Professionals. We’ll have a detailed report on the conference and our presentation in SIM’s upcoming issue of Inform.
You may want to check out some of these notable speakers we got the opportunity to hear:
The first talk on Friday was by Aaron Straup Cope, formerly of Flickr, now working with the Smithsonian National Design Museum. Here’s a video of another great talk he gave in New York: Stories from the New Aesthetic
Art Rhyno was a favourite at the conference—he spoke Saturday morning on his OCR newspaper digitization project at the University of Windsor. He doesn’t often come to Access and many people were eager to meet him.
watching Art Rhyno talking about newspapers, ocr, tesseract, backblaze github.com/artunit/ossocr #AccessYUL
— Ed Summers (@edsu) October 20, 2012
Alistair Croll presented Friday and held a very memorable talk on Big Data—a great speaker worth hearing and a topic worth looking into.
We’d like to thank the Dalhousie University Libraries and SIM for this great opportunity.
Dal Libraries May 8th Lunch & Learn: 3D Printing and Scanning in Libraries
SIM students and faculty are invited to the upcoming Dal Libraries Lunch & Learn on Tuesday May 8th where Michael Groenendyk, Riel Gallant, and IT Systems Director Marc Comeau will present their 3D printing and scanning pilot project. The presentation will be held from noon to 1pm in room 2616 on the second floor in the Killam Library.
For more information, please visit this link or view this video.