LITA Blog

Walk a block north of the conference hotel to the Tech Museum, where this exhibit of historic video games opened today. TheTech.org

In a meeting room far, far away…
Mark Phillips from the University of North Texas Libraries spoke to a small gathering of LITA librarians who found their way to the remote Convention Center Meeting Room C1+C4 about web harvesting government information. If you imagine that it is a simple thing to do, you are wrong!
Why [...]

Sean Cordes from Iowa State University
Sean opens by talking about Pong, the Atari game that many of us grew up with, and makes the point that even though it is simple; it is still engaging.
When we first started building web sites, we could envision the entire site in our heads, but now the complexity [...]

Michael Doran from the University of Texas at Arlington presented this session about the process of creating, releasing, and licensing open-source software.

Roy’s opening keynote discusses lessons to be learned from Google and Amazon.

May Chang’s workshop on open source communication and collaboration tools, Thursday, Sept. 29.

I’m on the 25th floor of the San Jose Marriott. They gave me a room facing the right direction, towards the eastern hills. If you look out the other side of the building you have a choice of at least four different freeways to watch the traffic crawling along.

On entering the Marriott, please [...]

If you are unsure of what to do Friday in San Jose, let me suggest the following: Come and watch Serenity with fellow geeks. There is a cinema within walking distance of the conference hotel and they are showing Serenity at 9:35. You can purchase a ticket online from Camera 12 Cinemas for the show. [...]

San Jose State University’s School of Library and Information Science will hold a reception during LITA Forum:

Saturday, October 1, from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Marriott Arcadia Room

All LITA Forum attendees are welcome. SLIS Associate Director Linda Main will host. Stop by, say hi, and grab some munchies!

Join the blogger shindig Saturday night. Proof of blog not required.