Archive for January, 2007

Top Tech Trends Part 3 - Clifford Lynch

January 24th, 2007 by jgriffey

The continuing saga of the Top Tech Trends podcast continues here, with Part 3. This is Clifford Lynch relating trends as he sees them, and look out tomorrow for Karen Schneider’s discussion of what she sees coming in technology.

 
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Top Tech Trends Part 2 - Marshall Breeding

January 23rd, 2007 by jgriffey

The second section of our Top Tech Trends podcast has Marshall Breeding outlining his Trends. Once again, if you have any difficulties with the feed or the audio, please leave a comment.

 
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Town Meeting, always interesting

January 23rd, 2007 by Michelle Boule

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Originally uploaded by Wandering Eyre.

The LITA Town Meeting yesterday was action packed even at 8am. I know there were a couple of other people taking actual notes. These are just my thoughts.
The activity that Mark Beatty had the packed room complete involved writing things we [...]

LITA IRC meeting

January 23rd, 2007 by lcuccurullo

About a dozen people attended the meeting on Monday morning from 10:30 to 12:30.
International Visitor Grant
The first topic of discussion focussed on the very generous donor who funded the attendance of a librarian from Trinidad and Tobago at the LITA Forum in October - he was so impressed by the moving thank you he [...]

Top Tech Trends

January 23rd, 2007 by jgriffey

With enormous thanks to Maurice York, the first of many LITA Podcasts!
There are seven segments in all for about an hour and forty-five minutes of trending goodness. For the sake of immediacy, this is pretty much the raw audio–not much editing or finessing. A more refined audio experience will be posted as we go.
If you [...]

 
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LITA Town Meeting

January 22nd, 2007 by Lauren Pressley

Today, I attended my first LITA Town Meeting. It was great, and I hope to attend many more. I liked that it was a good blend of meeting other LITA members, learning about our users, and brainstorming about the future.
The Town Meeting started with a breakfast and introduction to the LITA leadership. [...]

Connecting View..at 6 Arms Brew Pub

January 22nd, 2007 by chill

LITA’s Happy Hour at 6 Arms on 300 E. Pike Friday night was great! About 35 members showed up to network and discuss LITA activities and meetings here in Seattle. The brew pub is a cozy place with a wide selection of frothy, bubbly and hot stuff. And the place was hopping!
In [...]

No Discussion Discussion on RDA

January 22nd, 2007 by Diane Hillmann

Saturday 10:30-12:30: ALCTS/ Electronic Resources Interest Group
[NOTE: I'd promised to blog this session for the new ALCTS NRMIG Metadata Blog, but since one person at ALCTS must approve all potential bloggers and has no sense of urgency about it, I'm posting it on the LITA Blog. Maybe ALCTS will get their act together for [...]

OITP Telecommunications Subcommittee

January 21st, 2007 by AaronDobbs

Welcome & Comments
Legislative/Regulatory Update
* Outcomes of 109th Congress
— “Not too much” harm done?
* “Predictions” for 110th Congress
— Universal Service reform (E-Rate)
— Network Neutrality
— Spectrum Allocation/Ownership
— DOPA (again)
* State Issues
— S-DOPA (State-level DOPA look-alikes)
— Idaho is already facing an S-DOPA
*Other news
— E-Rate is 10 years old this February
Internet2 - Presentation from Lou Fox
* Defined I2
* K20
* [...]

LITA Board Meeting, Saturday

January 21st, 2007 by Michelle Boule

This was a loooooong meeting with a lot of content. I tried to condense it has much as I could. There are three main sections to the meeting and I have bolded them for easier skimming.
Present at the meeting: Bonnie Postlethwaite, Mary Taylor, Mark Beatty, Jonathan Rothman, Andrew Pace, Karen Starr, Barbara Higginbotham, David Bretthauer, [...]