LITA BlogLITA 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 addition, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. The [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]