Welcome everyone to the official PPL Tech Talk Blog!
My name is Janie Hermann and I am the Technology Training Librarian at Princeton Public Library in Princeton, NJ. I am also the founder and coordinator of Tuesday Technology Talks, a monthly evening program that is now in its sixth season.
The Tech Talk series began in October 2000 and it is dedicated to exploring current and emerging technologies. We rely on invited guest speakers to deliver a talk on a technology topic in their area of expertise. The program opens with a librarian(usually myself) giving an overview of technology training at the library for the month and it concludes with a discussion period that is moderated by a staff member opr the presenter. Topics have included everything from P2P Networking, Linux, Wikis, Blogs, The Invisible Web, Digital Photography and much more.
This blog will be used primarily to promote upcoming Tech Talks, but will also include updates about the extensive training program that is provided in the library's 2nd floor Tech Center. In addition, I will post other technology information that I feel will be of interest from time to time.
Tech Talks are free and open to the public. No advanced registration is required. I am always looking for good speakers, so if you can recommend someone please let me know.
Now, let's start talking about technology!
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About Me
- Janie L. Hermann
- Janie Hermann is the Program Coordinator at Princeton Public Library where she oversees the 1,500+ programs planned annually by the library’s cross-departmental programming team. Janie was a 2007 Library Journal “Mover and Shaker” for her work in developing Princeton’s technology training program and for her founding of Tuesday Technology Talks. She serves on the executive board of ALA’s CLENE Round Table and is active on several ALA committees. A graduate of GSLIS at The University of Western Ontario she has lived in NJ for 10 years where she has been involved with NJLA and was appointed to serve on the Blue Ribbon Task Force on the Future of Libraries in NJ. Janie has given over 100 presentations to librarians at the local, state and national level on a variety of topics ranging from Social Software to Newspaper Indexing. In the evenings and weekend she freelances on the QandANJ virtual reference service. Former positions include Reference & Interlibrary Loan Librarian at Hobart and Wm. Smith Colleges in Geneva (NY), Children’s Literature Librarian at the National Library of Canada, Research Assistant at UWO, and a five year stint as a middle school teacher in Kingston (ON).
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