Been a busy week in Library Land this week and I have been wishing that I was elsewhere because of it.

Firstly, I wanted to be in Washington DC, where the 2010 Computers in Libraries conference was held this week. I was fortunate to be able to attend CIL in 2007, so I know from experience how good it is.

Fortunately, due to the wonders of Twitters, blogging and the Internet in general, you can get some idea of the experience and the content from this premier US library conference.  Check out the program, before getting into the details below.

The Computers in Libraries 201o conference blog gives you all the news and happenings from the conference. They also had a Ustream channel, a Twitter account and many of the presentations are already available on Slideshare.

To get a more personal perspective, amongst my regular RSS feeds, I have discovered good CIL reports from David Lee King, Information Wants to be Free, Librarian in Black and Swiss Army Librarian. You can also do your own twitter search on the hashtag #cil2010.

Then on Friday, I wanted to be in Canberra, for the National Library of Australia’s Innovative Ideas Forum. Fortunately, many colleagues were and Twitter was overflowing with tweets from the day – many of which were fed into the Forum’s Social Networks page.  This page covers not only Twitter, but also Google, Flickr and Slideshare.  You could also find tweets by searching the #iif2010 hashtag.

Presentations will be uploaded to Slideshare, so its worth watching that space and the audio of the presentations will also be available in the near future. I also look forward to reading some blog posts about it (hint, hint), so let us know of any that you come across.

Nice to be able to benefit from our library colleagues, who are ready and willing to help us with our professional development, regardless of our geolocation.