LITA Blogare belong to you. The official list of all things LITA can be found on the LITA website. We are a busy group, as the time-slot conflicts demonstrate. What is it with the 1:30pm to 3:30pm slot on Saturday (10 overlaps) and the 10:30 to Noon slot on Sunday (9 overlaps)?! I guess we like [...]
The LITA Next Generation Catalog Interest Group (NGCIG) will hold its inaugural meeting at the ALA Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, on Saturday, June 23, from 1:30 to 3:30 in the Madison Hotel Montpelier Salon I. We will have a managed discussion featuring presentations on three libraries’ approaches to next generation catalogs: Don Barlow, Westerville [...]
This is a new category on the LITA Blog from the Technology Electronic Review group of LITA. Enjoy! REVIEW OF: Erik Brown. (2006). Windows Forms in Action. Greenwich: Manning Publications Co. (ISBN-10: 1-932-39465-6; ISBN-13: 978-1-932-394-658). 752 pp. $49.95. Reviewed by Jim Blansett Windows Forms in Action, written by Erik Brown, provides a good foundation in [...]
The last speaker was Jennifer Bowen from the University of Rochester. Jennifer’s most recent claim to fame is as the ALA representative to the Joint Steering Committee for RDA development, but she explicitly preceded her remarks by commenting on the pleasure of speaking for herself at this meeting. She began by explaining the RDA development [...]
This second in a series of ‘hearings’ under the aegis of the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control occurred at ALA Headquarters in Chicago, in a large spare room that Keith Michael Fiels, ALA Executive Direction, quipped reflected the “opulence of the organization.†But there was juice, coffee, and high-end [...]
This is one of our periodic messages sent to all LITA members. This update includes information about the following: *Simplifying Complex Projects Using Dotproject for Project Management. *Sunday Afternoon with LITA *Award Winners to be honored at Annual Conference *2007 LITA National Forum Keynote Sessions Scheduled *Visit the LITA Blog and LITA Wiki
Election Results Congratulations to the following members who have been elected to the LITA Board of Directors: Vice President/President-Elect: Andrew Pace Directors at Large (3 year terms): Mary Alice Ball and Susan Logue Director at Large (1 year term): Karen Starr LITA Councilor: Colby Riggs Elected ALA Councilors who are LITA members: Allene Hayes Janet [...]