"The Cleveland Area Metropolitan Library System has linked to The Handheld Librarian and are sponsoring a really neat program The Dog Ate My PDA. The speaker is Steve Bush, the editor of Pen Computing magazine. The program will provide an overview of mobile computing and pdas; case studies from high schools and universities; hands on use of a pda; and popular applications from course scheduling to e-books and more. CAMLS even has their own blog, Jenny!" [The Handheld Librarian]

We're doing a more informal take on this topic at SLS on May 9 for our next "Tech Summit." We've decided to try and convene a panel of local experts together to discuss specific PDA projects. Teri has agreed to discuss her planned project at CLS (thanks, Teri!), a gentleman at School District 230 will talk about their Palm program, and I'm still hoping Lori will be able to highlight her ongoing PDA project within her medical library (please oh please oh please!).

Staff at SLS libraries can sign up using the SLS Calendar of Events - May 9 at 1:30 p.m.! Any non-SLS folks are welcome to come, but you'll have to register via fax, email, or phone. I'm pretty happy about this because I really wanted to highlight this topic before the schools let out for the summer.

I couldn't pull together the DMCA/CBDTPA panel fast enough for this session, but I will keep trying for a future one. Keep you posted....

I'm adding Todd Gitlin's book, Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives to The Shifted Reading List, thanks to Librarians Anonymous.

I'm also going to try to keep up with LA, but it's getting more difficult to keep up with blogs that don't have RSS feeds because I have to manually visit them all, rather than having them appear automatically in my aggregator. Steven did this, and now I keep up with his site very easily. So if you have a Blogger site, you might want to consider using RSSify to create a feed for it.