[Web4lib] personal online calendar

[K.G. Schneider]

That central calendar also a Holy Grail for organizations too small or too
distributed to have internal event calendars. 

At Librarians' Internet Index, to support what we do (which includes a
commitment to providing high-quality websites related to what's happening in
the world), we've spent years trying to figure out how to have an online
calendar that would give us web-based group access for one-time and
recurring events, holidays, occasions, seasons, etc.--a resource ideally
both prepopulated with a lot of information but easily edited and added-to. 

We're looking at Google Calendar, and we may well try it out for a while.
But if there was ever a case for a wiki calendar-type tool that could be
publicly accessed and collaboratively maintained, this would be it. There
would still be the quality control/access control issues to work through...
and various models to follow. But I think a much broader group beyond LII
benefits from knowing that the first half of September includes Lafayette's
birthday, James Fenimore Cooper's birthday, and Chrysanthemum Day, as well
as Labor Day and September 11...

Seems to me that just as a collection development/program planning tool,
this kind of public calendar would be a natural for LibraryLand. 

Karen G. Schneider
kgs at lii.org http://lii.org