Archive for January, 2006

OCLC Symposium - Extreme Makeover: Rebranding an Industry Part 1

January 24th, 2006 by Michelle Boule

I took about 6 pages of notes during the presentation, so this is a highly condensed version of a very wonderful session. To make it readable, I am going to post it in four parts, separated by speakers.
The title implies that this session will be about libraries as industry, as business, and from the beginning, [...]

LITA Blog Combined Feed

January 24th, 2006 by K.G. Schneider

Sing ho for Kevin, Kevin ho! Last fall, Kevin Clarke set up a combined RSS feed for the LITA Blog that updates when a comment is added to a post (as well as when a post is added), and it’s truly RSS-alicious. If you want to follow the various comments and kibitzing–and let’s face it, [...]

ETIG - emerging technology interest group

January 24th, 2006 by AaronDobbs

A free wheeling discussion was had and enjoyed by all. here’s what I had presence of mind to note while cogitating…

ALA Council II — Dues proposal status

January 24th, 2006 by AaronDobbs

After much discussion, Council voted to place the proposed dues increase on the 2006 Spring Ballot for member consideration and voting.

The LITA Town Meeting

January 24th, 2006 by Pat Ensor

Well, first of all, if you were at the conference and not at the Town Meeting, you missed a great food spread. There was real food, folks — breakfast tacos, yogurt, fruit, bagels, pastries, AND a variety of juices.
While we ate, we got to view a photo montage of past involved LITA members who [...]

Top Tech Trends: The Trends

January 24th, 2006 by Lauren Pressley

Sunday, January 22, 8am-10am, Marriott Rivercenter, Conference Room 3/4
(This runs a bit long, so it’s been broken into two parts: the business meeting dealing with the TTT events and the Top Technology Trends discussion.)
With a little bit of time left after the business meeting, the discussion moved to the juicer topic: Top Technology Trends. [...]

Top Tech Trends: The Business End

January 23rd, 2006 by Lauren Pressley

Sunday, January 22, 8am-10am, Marriott Rivercenter, Conference Room 3/4
(This runs a bit long, so it’s been broken into two parts: the business meeting dealing with the TTT events and the Top Technology Trends discussion.)
The agenda for the Top Tech Trends meeting this midwinter was “more of a traditional business meeting than a discussion of [...]

Heads of Library Technology (HoLT) Interest Group

January 23rd, 2006 by rwayne

We discussed potential solutions to a number of administrative or technical issues (from our day-to-day work). We also addressed some annual program (”Core Competencies”) issues.

Town Meeting notes (table 1)

January 23rd, 2006 by AaronDobbs

LITA Educational programs brainstorming session ably facilitated by A & A Cohen. We had great participation, the main post is merely the table notes from ‘table 1′

Web Advisory Committee, the Dues Increase, and TANSTAAFL

January 23rd, 2006 by K.G. Schneider

Michelle Frisque, ALA WAC chair, will no doubt have far more fulsome coverage of this meeting later on, but as a WAC member, I wanted to share that we said our piece to Jim Rettig, ALA Executive Board member and WAC liasion, regarding the importance of ensuring that the ALA dues increase would support ALA’s [...]