Infopeople News

Carole Leita is home again after her hip replacement surgery last Friday. Doctors described her as a "model patient" (we knew she would be) and were so pleased with her progress that they sent her home yesterday. She is walking (with a walker), her pain is under control, and she is in excellent spirits.

This was the last day of CLA. Things wrapped up at noon, but in the morning, Infopeople had another busy schedule of demos, and a last rush of visitors to the booth. We gave away the last of the Infopeople rocks (that makes them collectors' items now!), then packed up and headed for our various homes.

Day three at CLA, and another full day of demo sessions at the Infopeople booth area. Everyone is pretty pooped at this point and looking forward to heading home tomorrow. But it's been a lot of fun! Here are some images of today, for a flavor of all the happenings.

And this Infopeep should be in bed asleep, but noooo...instead the ever faithful web manager is slaving away over a hot computer doing another late night update from CLA. It was quite the busy day, starting bright and early meeting up with the Rural Initiative folks to help them with their great conference idea: cow bookmarks!

It was setup day at CLA. All us Infopeople were busy opening boxes, setting up booths and in general preparing for opening day tomorrow. There's a busy demo schedule planned, so things should be hopping. Here are some photos of the day's events.

The "alpha Infopeep," Carole Leita, who has been involved with Infopeople from the beginning and who is, in many people's minds, synonymous with Infopeople, is scheduled to have hip replacement surgery this Friday, November 12, at the UCSF Medical Center.

At next month's conference in San Jose, Infopeople is coordinating a giant shared exhibit space devoted to "Celebrating Collaboration." Eleven organizations and statewide projects are participating in the exhibit, i.e.: Califa Group, California Center for the Book, California Library Literacy Services, California Preservation Program, California State Library/Library Development Services, California State Library Rural Initiative, clioinstitute, Infopeople, Librarians' Index to the Internet, Libris Design, and UCLA Department of Infor

Popular "Extreme Googling" instructor Joe Barker is experiencing back problems that will prevent him from teaching on-ground sessions of this course for the next two months. Accordingly, Linda Rodenspiel has notified those registered for the upcoming sessions of this workshop that the sessions have been cancelled and will be rescheduled when Joe is cleared to teach again. That's the bad news. The good news is that Joe can - and is eager - to teach an online version of "Extreme Googling" in the interim.

Under the auspices of the 2004/05 Rural Initiative grant, awarded to the North State Cooperative Library System by the California State Library, Infopeople will expand training in the rural areas of California. In this grant year, we will offer a total of 20 on-ground workshops in rural areas. Various locations in North State will host 10 workshops while Mono County and Calexico will each host 3 workshops.