LITA BlogRoy Tennant, California Digital Library
Andrew Pace, North carolina State University (NCSU)
Packed house which was to be expected. It’s like E.F. Hutton when Roy and Andrew speak. (Do you remember that commercial?) And on top of that, everyone has an interest in OPACs - reference librarians, access services librarians, catalog librarians, etc. Lots [...]
I’ve been reticent about posting my reaction to this late night session. It’s usually lots of fun and you can get a good sense of library technology trends on the bleeding edge. More of the same this year. The theme was library 1.0 versus Library 2.0. It’s all fair game, but [...]
A quickie update from Mary Ghikas on the ALA election stats…
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As of this afternoon’s report (3/22/06) the number voted was:
4,513, including 4467 web and 46 paper
Note that we are finally up to the date of the 1st report in 2005.
As of 3/22/05, the number voted was 2,764.
Lorcan Dempsey
Second day of the conference and my first post… It’s been busy, but exhilirating. This was a good session that really worked to bring together the possibilities of web 2.0 for libraries. Lorcan began by emphasizing the need to make bib data work harder; of releasing the value from Library Marc and [...]