LITA BlogDay 2 of the pre-conference was presented by Amy Begg De Groff and Luis Salazar of Howard Country Library (Md.). Amy and her IT staff of six (which includes Luis) have successfully switched their 279 public computers over to the “Groovix” operating system (www.groovix.com). Groovix is based on Ubuntu, one of the most popular Linux [...]
Do library’s need to blog?
If you’ve thought of blogging your library, don’t dismiss blogging but don’t rush to embrace it, either. If your reasons are: administration says I should, everybody else is doing it or we’ve got to stay up with technology, think again. If, on the other hand, you see it as a tool [...]
Day 1 was presented by Gary Wan of the TAMU libraries. He showed about 20 of us how to install and configure the following library-relevant open-source products: Koha, Greenstone, Swish-e, and Wordpress.
First, he explained open-source and the LAMP platform. LAMP is the software bundle commonly used for OSS products. LAMP stands for: Linux (the operating [...]
The room is full for this session by Hongbin Liu from Yale and Win Shih from University of Colorado — despite the number of other really interesting-sounding sessions in this time slot!
Hongbin had done a web site redesign project for both the public and internal sites at his previous job in New Orleans. The [...]
Thom Gillespie directs the Mime program at Indiana University. He told the story of how it started: When he was teaching in the school of library and information studies, he was interested in games and media: “I wasn’t sure where I was going, but I was pretty sure it wasn’t where the [...]
Gregg Silvis presented his view of the not-so-rosy future of the local OPAC to a capacity crowd on the first day of the 2006 LITA National Forum.
Reviewing the origins of today’s OPACs in the card catalogs of yore, he focused on the duplication of effort that has always been a part of the [...]
The full title of this presentation was ‘Building a Web Service for the Library World, from the Ground Up’ and that’s exactly what the three presenters covered. We heard about the project’s beginnings and current status, what it means for content providers, and how it affects vendors of ERMs (Electronic Resource Management packages). The presenters [...]
Kristine Hanna was the main speaker for this session, and Linda Freuh also contributed. Both are from the Internet Archive.
The session opened with a brief outline of the history of the Internet Archive. They were founded in 1996, and are a non profit organization dedicated to, well, archiving the Internet. They crawl [...]
“Save America’s Treasures: Preservation of Rare Acetate and Vinyl Recording Transcriptions”
Speaker: Dr. John Rumble, Senior Historian
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
(operated by the non-profit Country Music Foundation)
Dr. Rumble spoke about the history of the CMHFM, which opened in 1967. It new location opened in 2001, and the Bob Pinson Recorded Sound Collection now [...]
Eric Delozier of Penn State presented Many Users, One Computer, and Access to Web Services: Information Technology Risk Management in Libraries. I arrived a bit late, so I’m starting where I came in:
Liability issues: without adequate protection, patrons’ personal files and information might be lost or stolen; systems can be damaged.
Causes for loss:
Hardware failure [...]