Oh, I’m lucky.<\/p>\n
Here’s where I’m going during my travels in March and April.<\/p>\n
I’ll try to tweet at @libsmatter<\/a> and post here as I go.<\/p>\n The very, very generous VALA<\/a>, who are sponsoring my travel scholarship to look at Alternative Discovery Layers and Open Source Software<\/a>, have asked me to prepare an original paper for the VALA Conference 2010 – Connections.Content.Conversations<\/a>. I’ll be looking at what the systems studied do technically and whether organisations that implement them have anything in common that makes them early adopters – “how come you did this, but the library down the road didn’t?”. Some original material that needs to be in the conference paper won’t be tweeted or posted here.<\/p>\n I’ll also be researching material for a Masters of Information Management at Curtin University<\/a>. My thesis is tentatively titled: Taking matters into our own hands: Influencing factors and concerning factors for libraries that developed Open Source Library Application Software between 1999 and 2009<\/em>.<\/p>\n I’ll be presenting a plenary session at Library Camp East on 26 March and be part of a panel session about Unconferences at Computers in Libraries<\/a> on 31 March. I’m really excited to finish my trip by speaking at the U Game U Learn<\/a> symposium at Delft in the Netherlands on 23 April. I’ll be asking “What kind of better than free is your library?”.<\/p>\n