LITA BlogI’d like to draw everyone’s attention to an important podcast interview by Scott Mace of Open Source Conversations with Karen Coyle. The interview is linked from Karen’s blog, “Coyle’s InFormation” at http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/2007/03/podcast-on-libraries-and-standards.html. Like all of us who do most of our communication in writing, she found things to criticize in what she said during the [...]
Open Source Systems Interest Group meeting
Sunday, January 21, 2007, 4-6pm
The group reviewed the list of programs planned for Annual in DC
Evergreen, the Georgia PINES consortium’s open ILS program
Automating metadata creation with open source software. Patrick Yott from Brown.
The next-generation public library website with Drupal. John Blyberg from the Ann Arbor District Library.
Sakai collaboration and learning [...]
This is one of our periodic messages sent to all LITA members. This update includes information about the following:
*New CMS
*Vote for your favorite candidates in the election this week
*Student Writing Award deadline extended
*Visit the LITA Blog
*LITA Annual Conference plans
*Mark your calendar for the next LITA National Forum
Next in the LITA Election 2007 podcast lineup: Barbara Spivey, who is running for Director at Large - 3 year term.
Next in the LITA Election 2007 podcast lineup: Dale Poulter, who is running for Director at Large - 3 year term.
Next in the LITA Election 2007 podcast lineup: Susan Logue, who is running for Director at Large - 3 year term.
Next in the LITA Election 2007 podcast lineup: Mary Alice Ball, who is running for Director at Large - 3 year term.
Next in the LITA Election 2007 podcast lineup: Colby Riggs, who is running for ALA Councilor. Her opponent in the race, Kay Flowers, did not respond to our request for an interview.
Because of some feedback we’ve received, LITABlog has decided to go ahead and push the remainder of our Election Podcasts out in one group, tomorrow morning. Because the ALA election announcements have already hit everyone’s email, we decided that we should go ahead and just get the remaining interviews out so that people can listen [...]
The other day someone asked me about how we here at Notre Dame managed a team of 28+ members in regards to our one-year institutional digital repository pilot project (www.library.nd.edu/idr). I did my best to address their questions, and I thought I would copy my reply below. It might prove useful in your setting. (Then [...]
