LITA BlogOne of the best sessions I attended at Annual this year was ERMS Continues: More on Standards and Systems, presented by the ALCTS Electronic Resources Interest Group. Linda Miller (Library of Congress) and Kathy Klemperer (consultant) presented a wonderfully coherent overview of the current standards environment for electronic resources management, how it developed, and what’s [...]
The second of our seven part Top Technology Trend podcasts is here! There were six Trendsters live at ALA Annual, and this second installment is by John Blyberg. The remainder will be spread out along this and next week. Stay tuned to listen to your favorite, or save them up and listen all together.
Now up: [...]
Next Generation Libraries: The 2.0 Phenomenon
Stephen Abram
Joe James
Stephen’s Lighthouse blog for slides
Change is coming and everyone will be effected.
FaceBook – get your name and face out there. Let them know your name. Stand behind your word. Get libraries to evolve by de-cloaking. Show who they are and what their specialties are.
MySpace merging with Yahoo. Thompson [...]
The first of our seven part Top Technology Trend podcasts from this year’s ALA Annual meeting is finally here! There were six Trendsters live at ALA Annual, and the first lucky one to be podcast is Marshall Breeding. The remainder will be spread out along this and next week. Stay tuned to listen to your [...]
LITA Next Generation Catalogs IG
Saturday 1:30-3:30
Inaugural Meeting – meeting following this session at 3:30 p.m. to decide speakers and topics for next meeting.
Speaker 1
Don Barlow
Westerville Public Library
Serve 86,000 people
Quality program and services made available so people will use it.
Users expect info to be delivered to them with highly personalized interfaces.
Combine quality, convenience and social [...]
New Technical Services Supervisor? Check Here for Help
Saturday, June 23, 2007 4-5:30 p.m.
LAMA / SASS
Based on a book that the committee wrote. Available in the store tomorrow (only 20). ALA discount and no shipping because
ALA made a mistake on the count.
Dr. Joan Giesecke
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
Dean of Libraries
Getting Started – Command [...]
Authority Control Meets Faceted Browse, ALCTS Authority Control IG, June 24, 2007
PowerPoints available at the authority control interest group LITA/ALCTS
Kathryn LaBarre,
Science
University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaignklabarre@uiuc.edu
Concept of bringing search and browsing together. We are in the period of experimentation: metadata standards, web 2.0, folksonomy, leverage, and facets.
Look to interconnections available with authority data. Authority [...]
LITA Blog and Wiki Interest Group Social Software Showcase
Sat., 6/23, 1:30-3:00
Renaissance Mayflower Cabinet Room
Part II of the Social Software Showcase. It’s tres cool that the Showcase is via a wiki.
A group of library 2.0 users sat at different tables and discussed and demo-ed different software. It was hard to take it all in. I spent [...]
RUSA MAR–Chair’s Program
Harnessing the Hive: Social Networks and Libraries
Sunday, 6/24 10:30 am-12:00 pm Convention Center Room 144 A-C
A standing room only crowd (300+) greeted what was definitely a hot topic (ubiquitous, too :D). The meeting included the RUSA MARS business meeting, which was brief. The Rethinking Reference preconference was sold out, and will be offered [...]
LITA-IRC Meeting, Monday, June 25, 2007
10:30am -12pm
Renaissance Hotel - Room 17
The focus of LITA’s International Relations Committee meeting was on the selection of the International Visitor Travel Grant candidate to the 2007 LITA Forum, arrangement for the grant recipient’s visit to the United States, report of the 2006 Travel Grant winner and preparation for the [...]
