LITA BlogAt the Annual 2007 American Library Association conference in Washington in June, the LITA Standards Interest Group sponsored a program entitled “Using Metadata Standards in Digital Libraries: implementing METS, MODS, PREMIS and MIX”. This session explored how libraries are using emerging standards to manage and provide navigation for digital library objects and featured the following:
Rebecca [...]
The Education Committee met for the last time before merging with the Regional Institutes Committee to become the new (ta-da) Eduation Committee.
Susan Logue, as LITA board liaison, reported on the board meeting and shared information about the board’s assignments and expectations for the newly merged committee.
Included in the charge for the new committee are these [...]
Next up in the ongoing Podcast series from ALA Annual 2007 is the LITA President’s Program, Tag! You’re IT: Online Digital Audio collections meet PennTags
This is the last of the fully-captured sessions from ALA 2007 from LITABlog, but there may still be a few pieces of audio here and there that are unearthed and posted.
As [...]
Next in our series of podcasts from ALA Annual 2007 is The Ultimate Debate: Do Libraries Innovate? Moderated by LITA Vice-President Andrew Pace and featuring Joseph Janes, Stephen Abrams, and K.G. Schneider talking about libraries, innovation, and a great deal more. The audio file is rather large and lengthy (clocking in at an hour and [...]
Ted Koppel raised some compelling issues during his discussions on Ebooks at the ERM Interest Group last week at ALA. In this entry ERM refers to OpenURL, A-Z list and the subscriptions module of this software. ERM software works fairly well with journal content and I believe that library online journal collections have [...]
A very unique session on Copyright. Instead of speakers the session was set up as a poster session. Attendees could visit the various poster sessions on Copyright and ask questions.
Topics covered included: Copyright, A Limited Statutory Monopoly by Carrie Russell, Interlibrary Loan by Patricia Ball, Electronic Reserves for Text and Media by [...]
Scott Reinhart, Associate Director of Operations and Bob Kuntz (IT Manager) from Carroll County Public Library discussed the challenges a small rural library faces as it begins to provide various technologies for its’ patrons and staff. Carol County Public Library is located in a rural area in Maryland. The total population is 163,207. [...]
At the Annual 2007 American Library Association conference in
Washington in June, the LITA Standards Interest Group sponsored a program
entitled “Using Metadata Standards in Digital Libraries: implementing METS,
MODS, PREMIS and MIX”. This session explored how libraries are using
emerging standards to manage and provide navigation for digital library
objects and featured the following:
* Rebecca Guenther, Library of Congress: [...]
The final of our Top Technology Trend podcasts from this year’s ALA Annual meeting is here! Now that all of the Trendsters have spoken their minds, we give them a chance to challenge each other and respond to the audience.
Next week, we’ll begin rolling out more podcasts from ALA Annual 2007, including the audio of [...]
Although not a LITA event, the ALCTS 50th Anniversary President’s Program, held on Monday, June 25, 2007, in the Renaissance Hotel Grand Ballroom South, should be of interest to many LITA members. Peter Morville, author of Ambient Findability and co-author of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, provided an overview of his work [...]
