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Speaker: Catherine M. Jannik, Georgia Institute of Technology Library and Information Center Program blurb: In August 2004, Georgia Tech Library launched SMARTech with approximately 2,500 legacy items. In the beginning, we focused on authors self-archiving pre-prints and postprints, research and technical reports, and electronic theses and dissertations. As interest in archiving other materials increased and [...]

Friday Oct. 5, 4:20 Edward Iglesias, Central Connecticut State University Suellen Stringer-Hye, Vanderbilt University We were commended to check out the Topic Maps LITA interest group also. Edward and Suellen had an infectious enthusiasm for topic maps, and this session was super! They want to make progress together as a library community, creating and merging [...]

Thomas Dowling, OhioLINK Or: “A cautionary tale in three acts” At OhioLink they decided that the repository should be “A place for our stuff”, including: art collections high quality/high resolution – multiple tens of thousands of images art and architecture slides from U Cincinnati paintings and drawings from U Cinn collection items from Works Progress [...]

LITA Forum Saturday October 6, 3:20 Frances Knudsen, Beth Goldsmith – Los Alamos National Laboratory Our speaker discussed the experiences that they have had working with The Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library’s aDORe Repository. She spoke about philosophical side versus real world side of QA . They run a repository on a home made [...]

Annette Bailey – Virginia Tech The room was over-filled showing that a lot of people are interested in the project. In 2005 the working group thought they’d like to produce a tool that would be a virtual librarian – could they do it wihtout becoming an MS paperclip? Annette reviewed the decision making process through [...]

Jennifer Ward, Head of Web Services at the University of Washington discussed how her library has implemented a pilot project-WorldCat Local (WCL). WCL at UW searches the local catalog, World Cat, and four article databases. Not all resources are included in WCL. Early English Books Online and Eighteen Century Collections Online are excluded from WCL [...]

The speakers for this session were Beth LaPensee of JSTOR and Alice Preston from Ithaka. JSTOR is currently in the process of doing a major site redesign, and Beth LaPensee gave an overview of some of the changes that might (emphasis on the word might; this is still a work in progress) be included in [...]

LITA and BIGWIG would like to thank the volunteers that put forward such a phenomenal effort to capture LITA Forum 2007 for us. Without them, we couldn’t have covered the conference in the detail that we did, and I would like to give them a round of virtual applause for their efforts. *applause* Thanks go [...]

Last in the LITA forum 2007 Podcast series is the Sunday Keynote from Jeremy Frumkin, entitled “In Our Cages with Golden Bars.” I hope that everyone enjoyed the keynote podcasts, and the blogging, from LITA Forum 2007. Join us next year in Cincinnati, OH, for LITA Forum 2008.

Jeremy Frumkin Keynote - LITA Forum 2007 [ 57:24 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (17983)

Speaker: Jennifer Ward, University of Washington Libraries Jennifer started by showing a YouTube video, “Finding Time in the Penn State Libraries,” to illustrate the problems searchers have when looking for material through library catalogs. I was amused when I looked for the video that another librarian has posted a video response, “Finding Time Magazine at [...]