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 [...]
LITA Top Technology Trends 2007 - John Blyberg [ 11:15 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (10767)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 [...]
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 Top Technology Trends 2007 - Marshall Breeding [ 7:18 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (7745)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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 ). The meeting included the RUSA MARS business meeting, which was brief. The Rethinking Reference preconference was sold out, and [...]
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 [...]