What's Hot in Technology Presented by: Scott Bauer, Redwood City Public Library Sarah Houghton, Marin County Free Library Steven Silveria, Watsonville Public Library

Free Wireless Access "A Hard Look at Wireless Networks" by Marshall Breeding. NetConnect, July 15, 2002. The Wireless Librarian

Digital Rights Management Wikipedia entry on DRM John Herron's DRM News blog Electronic Frontier Foundation's DRM section Digital Rights Management: A failure in the developed world, a danger to the developing world Who To Read/Talk With: Karen Coyle, Digital Libraries Consultant, formerly with the Univ. of California's California Digital Library

Desktop Video/Collaboration Software Review from Technology Research News Facetop Technical Report from UNC Chapel Hill Facetop Pictures

Instant Messaging Reference St. Joseph County Public Library's IM Program Thomas Ford Memorial Library Marin County Free Library

RSS RSS Directories Syndic8s News is Free RSS Search Engines Daypop.com Feedster Who To Read/Talk With Sarah Houghton, e-Services Librarian for Marin County Free Library

Open Source Software ILS Open Source software Koha LearningAccess ILS Avanti OpenBiblio phpmylibrary Emilda Productivity Open Source software OpenOffice OpenOffice 2.0 Feature Guide Open Source Blog software Word Press Open Source product Wikipedia Open Source Chat Software Inter Chat V.3

Pestware Awareness "Uncovering the 'Spy' Network: Is Spyware Watching Your Library Computers?" by Daniel Fidel Ferrer and Mary Mead. Computers in Libraries. May 2003. Pest Patrol Research Center ZoneAlarm firewall Windows Updates Mac OSX Updates Norton Anti-virus AVG Anti-virus Ad Aware Spybot Spyware Guard Spyware Blaster

Open URL National Information Standards Organization's site on Open URL Who To Read/Talk With: Eric Van de Velde, PhD. Director of Library Information Technology, California Institute of Technology Libraries

Power over Ethernet (PoE) "Even Fewer Wires: Power-over-Ethernet (PoE)" by Jim Geier

Browsers Other than Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox Opera Safari (for Macs)

RFID Who To Read/Talk With: Laura J. Smart, Electronic Resources Cataloger, Calif. State Polytechnic Univ., Pomona and creator of the RFID in Libraries weblog

Library LAN Parties LANparty.com's LAN Party Hosting Guide "Throw a LAN Party with Windows XP" by Joel Durham, Jr. "Video Games as a Service: Hosting Tournaments at Your Library" by Erin Helmrich and Eli Neiburger. VOYA, February 2005.

MP3 Audio e-Books Listen Ohio ListenIllinois Mid-Illinois Talking Book Center Who to Read/Talk With: Jenny Levine, Internet Development Specialist, Metropolitan Library System

Podcasting What is Podcasting? video tutorial Podcast Alley "How to: Create Your Own Podcasting Show On Windows" from ZefHemel.com Podcasting Librarians Greg Schwartz (Open Stacks) Karen Schneider (Free Range Librarian) Michael Stephens (Tame the Web)

New Technologies, New Attitudes "Librarians are from Venus; Technologists are from Mars" by Doug Johnson How we really use the Web "Sex Is Out, Consuming Is In" by the Associated Press