LITA BlogYan Han, Systems Librarian at The University of Arizona Libraries, Tucson, AZ and current chair of the LITA Standards IG introduced the program and the first speaker. Reports included NISO’s Strategic Direction, SUSHI, the License Expression Working Group, RFID, Web Services and Practices and ISBN-13.
Posting my response to another thread as a thread for possible discussion. Here’s what I heard a while back regarding what sort of loose earmarks or intentions are lined up for the potential revenue increase. What are your thoughts and how would you prioritize expenditures of dues-based money?
A summary of a panel discussion on copyright and mass digitization moderated by Clifford Lynch on Saturday morning.
The photos of the flip charts are now available on LITA Blog’s Flickr page under the tag TownHall. I tried to explain them as best I could, but feel free to add comments on the page if you remember something I have forgotten.
Chair Laura Cohen summarized the purpose and mission of this interest group and reviewed the programs it has presented at ALA Annual Conferences in recent years.
Plans for the 2006 Annual Conference program were reviewed. This program will be in debate format. Program title: “The Ultimate Debate: Who Controls the Future of Search?” The roster [...]
Sunday, January 22nd, 8 – 9 am, Gonzalez Convention Center, Room 206B
Four committee members and Valerie Emonds-Merritt, ALA staff liaison, attended the meeting. Debra Kurtz, Committee Chair, explained the selection procedures, with the additional notes from the previous chair, Adriene Lim, and Valerie. Debra distributed selection criteria, which are grouped into four categories. [...]
The meeting started with introductions. There were 21 people in attendance representing 13 IG’s.
Margaret Kelly from Bylaws and Organization spoke briefly about IG renewals. IG’s now have a new renewal form. Any IG that is up for renewal should have already been contacted by Margaret. Matt Calsada, the IG Coordinator will be posting [...]
I really saved the very best for last.
Antony Brewerton from Oxford Brookes University Library, UK
(not only does he have a delightful accent, but he has a great sense of humor and keeps the audience laughing)
We need to change the perspective of libraries and reach people from different backgrounds at a local level.
Antony spends a lot [...]
Patricia Martin – Marketing
Libraries: Defending the Brand
Libraries are in the best of times. Disruptive competition drives innovation.
Behold the rise of the second renaissance generation – the RenGen. They live in a knowledge economy. There is a formal delivery system for the knowledge of culture and there is also an informal system that is growing [...]
Jennifer Rice is the owner of a marketing company and she focuses on the 6 major consumer trends that effect everyone. A brand is reputation, an idea formed in the minds of your constituents. What you say is marketing and what you do, reputation, is brand
What can you do that people desire that is deliverable [...]