This is a 5 minute video of the November 26th Social Daunce Irregulars Victorian Grand Ball. Purists beware. The last dance is not any dance in particular, but a pastiche of three different set dances, done to a completely unrelated piece of music.

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These are the briefing slides for a presentation made by Walter Nelson at the Internet Librarian conference in Monterey California in October of 2011.(More information)

I (Walter Nelson) am the organizer for the Los Angeles Area EOS Users' Group. EOS is an integrated library system ("ILS") which combines the features of an online catalog with a system to manage subscriptions and other internal library functions.

Website for more information on the EOS ILS
http://www.eosintl.com/

Our group communicates using "Google Groups". If your organization uses the EOS system, and you want to join our group, enter your email below.

Video taken at the Queen Mary Art Deco Weekend tea dance, put on by the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles.

Music by Ian Whitcomb and the Bungalow Boys, with vocals by Alex Mendham.

At Internet Librarian 2011, October 17-19, in Monterey California, I will be speaking, along with Marshal Breeding, on the topic of the present and future of the Library catalog. My particular focus will be a how they really need to change or they will become obsolete and extinct (cheerful, eh?).

I have provided A/V support to a wide variety of programs and have done countless of my own simple and complex presentations over the years and I think it might be useful to set down in writing some of the issues that come up time after time. Perhaps, if I document them, people might be less likely to repeat the errors of the past.

I will focus here on technical issues. Stylistic issues like not burying your head in your notes and reading in a monotone or in that odd, artificial sing-song style many people take on when presenting; or not filling your slides with text; or not reading your slides verbatim; I will leave to another time.

On Sunday, May 29th 2011, we will premiere what I hope will be the first of many "Lanterman Summer Whites Picnic and Ukulele Rendezvous" annual events.

This event is a bit of a departure for me. My previous productions have been characterized by structure, scheduling and organization. A certain amount of latitude was provided for creative people to be creative, but we always knew whose job it was to do what, when. That is not the case here. This event is deliberately unstructured, and is intended to be more like a party - where the guests are not passive observers but ARE the show.

This is a very nice compilation from the end of the Victorian period, which provides some choreographies for many of the most popular figure dances.