LITA BlogDigital Searching to Digital Reading
Speaker: Michael Lesk author of Understanding Digital Libraries
Are people really going to read books online? Do they want to? These are the opening questions that Michael Lesk posed to the audience. People want things electronically, but they do not necessarily want to read it online. Many do not take digitization and [...]
Total registration for this conference is over 25,596–about 5,000 more than Orlando (last year’s annual conference). ALA staff are looking up stats to see if this is the record.
I was intrigued by the opening questions Michael Lesk posed in the LITA President’s Program. “Notwithstanding technical, economic, or legal obstacles, how much will people want to read online? And what will it mean to them?” Yet as I sat in the front row I struggled to stay awake. My adrenaline level had fallen down, [...]
The digital imaging with JPEG2000 (jp2) session was essentially divided into four sections: an introduction to jp2, a description of the standard and its uses, product demonstrations from vendors, and a panel of practitioners. Unfortunately there was some mix up with the busing from McCormick (one bus didn’t take anyone (maybe it was having [...]
O.k., maybe not, but new member Ayse Gider looks pretty happy as she shows off the iPod Mini she won at the drawing that followed the LITA President’s Program, featuring Michael Lesk. Happy iTunes, Ayse, and welcome to LITA!
Siva Vaidhyanathan. Need I say more? Great, thought provoking, and sufficiently interesting to make for disjointed notes (and post) due to intense cogitation.
ALA WO OITP Inaugurated the L. Ray Patterson Award (for defesne of user rights) this year. The Inaugural Recipient is: Kenneth Crews of IUPUI.
Saturday morning RUSA MARS program, Do You Trust Your IT Staff? Do They Trust You?
Implementing a Federated Search Tool
Speakers:
Peter Webster, St. Mary’s University
Marvin Pollard, California State University
Robert Sathrum, Humboldt State University
Joseph Fisher, Boston Public Library
Peter Webster led off the panel with an overview of the basics of federated searching.
First he defined the concept:
Too @#& many interfaces
“One stop shopping”
“Google like searching”
Silo busting
Cross-file searching
He reminded us that cross-file searching isn’t [...]
Joe Janes said that if your reference librarians will not get out from behind the desk to “rove through the reference area offering assistance whenever possible,” as prescribed in Guidelines for Behavioral Performances of Reference and Information Service Providers, telling you that roving is unprofessional, you should fire them. His response to a question [...]