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The Kirtas/BookSurge/Amazon book digitization program is getting press!
Book Standard
Chronicle of Higher Education

This panel featured six speakers who are involved in a new project to digitize books and make them available both online and print-on-demand via Amazon. Two of the speakers, Lotfi Belkhir and Robin Asbury, work for the companies that are behind the project—Kirtas Technologies and BookSurge, respectively—and the other four speakers are with institutions that [...]

Hello LITAblog readers! I’m Julia Bauder, a student in the MLIS program at Wayne State and one of the LITA conference bloggers. I’ll be blogging three sessions this weekend. First up is The Ultimate Debate: Do Libraries Innovate?, featuring Andrew Pace of North Carolina State University as the moderator, Joseph Janes of the University of [...]

Minutes of the JPEG2000 Interest Group are posted to the IG’s page on j2kArcLib.info. Comments there require registration to j2kArcLib, so feel free to post comments here on the LITA Blog as well.

The Boyfriend and I arrived in DC Thursday night. We’re staying at the Holiday Inn on Thomas Circle. It is posh by our standards: we have two bathrooms, a fridge, a microwave, iron, blowdryer, coffeemaker, etc. I have been sick most of the last week with a stomach bug. I can finally eat again, but [...]

Not an agenda post this time, link & minor synthesis instead.
WAC reviewed some Challenged Content Guidelines for discussion and possible adoption by Divisions
History: This is a response to a challenge to program write-up of a Program in 2003
Lots of cool stuff being done by ITTS, see the Agenda for the updates. We had wide ranging [...]

The Membership Committee was bright-eyed and bushy-tailed at 8am on Saturday morning. What more do you want?
Able Chair Pat Ensor got through the two hour agenda with flexibility and grace. She brought news from ALA including discussions and evaluation of the re-branding of our Open House as LITA 101 and its inclusion in [...]

Aaron has once again given the meeting essentials in agenda order, so I’m going to meander through my notes on the meeting nuggets.
After Chairs Coordinator Scott Muir distributed service recognition certificates, he reviewed the various resources available to committees for self-orientation and continuing support. Aaron posted the list in his entry.
If Committees find [...]

Todd Carpenter, NISO’s new Managing Director (since September 2006) gave a talk about the new NISO organization that has evolved out of the recommendations from the 2005 “Blue Ribbon Panel” that reviewed the organization. He started by reiterating facts and perceptions about NISO — that it is the agency responsible for ANSI Z39 standards [...]

I along with Aaron didn’t quite make the beginning of the meeting, so I’m going to ad-lib a bit:
This meeting is for the purpose of introducing new IG and Committee Chairs with each other and with some of the people who will be very important to them during their term of leadership. All current, [...]