Archive for November, 2007

LITA’s new emerging leaders

November 20th, 2007 by Melissa Prentice

LITA Congratulates Lauren Pressley- the New Emerging Leaders Program Participant.
The Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) Board is pleased to announce its sponsorship of Lauren Pressley to the ALA Emerging Leaders Program. Lauren is currently the Instructional Design Librarian at Wake Forest University and co-chair of the LITA Distance Learning Interest Group. In [...]

Success and Failure

November 13th, 2007 by Diane Hillmann

I was really looking forward to watching the webcast this afternoon of the recommendations of the Library of Congress’s Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control (their website is at: http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/). It turned out that a lot of other people were planning on tuning in as well, and, from what I can determine, hardly [...]

LITA Seeks Web Manager

November 13th, 2007 by Melissa Prentice

Job Description and application process
In cooperation with the LITA Board, LITA staff, and the Web Coordinating Committee and interest group chairs, the Web Manager is responsible for the content and services available on the LITA website. The Web Manager makes policy recommendations to the Board on issues such as page appearance, standards and technologies used [...]

LITA Workshops at 2008 ALA Midwinter Meeting

November 13th, 2007 by Melissa Prentice

LITA is offering our User Centered Design Regional Institute prior to ALA Midwinter in Philadelphia on Thursday and Friday, January 10-11, 2008.
Day 1: Design Process; Day 2: Usability
Learn about design process for managing digital projects in libraries and usability theory and methodology. This workshop covers two days, and can be attended for either day, [...]

2008 LITA Awards and Scholarships

November 13th, 2007 by Melissa Prentice

Please consider submitting nominations for the following 2008 awards:
-Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology is sponsored by OCLC and LITA. The deadline for nominations is December 31, 2007. For full details, please see the press release: http://www.lita.org/ala/lita/newandnoteworthy/2007_Kilgour_Award_nominations_sought_.cfm
-LITA/Brett Butler Entrepreneurship Award is sponsored by Thomson Gale and LITA. [...]

Travel Grant: 2008 LITA Forum

November 11th, 2007 by chill

Grant Available to Attend Library Information Technology Association
National Forum October 2008 USA
Sponsor: Mrs. Grace Hope Hill in Memory of Professor Errol Gaston Hill
Conference Theme:
Technology and Community: Building the Techno Community Library
October 16-19, 2008, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
The Library and Information Technology Association, a division of the American Library Association, announces a grant to support and [...]

Integrating Information Resources: The tale of the Primo development partnership at Vanderbilt

November 11th, 2007 by MChantiny

PROGRAM BLURB:
Vanderbilt formed a partnership with Ex Libris to develop Primo, a new search and retrieval platform for library and university resources. The session will cover:
· Project management experience from the project
· Working with staff that are not confident with the product
· Shifting time schedules
· What happens when the deliverables change
· Staffing needs
· Technical development
· [...]

Welcome To Our New Server

November 3rd, 2007 by Blake

Please let us know if you spot any bugs!