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The design concept for the ALA website is now available for review. It’s up in Philadelphia on kiosks in the Pennsylvania Convention Center, but anyone can get to the site from anywhere. The URL is http://alamockups.luminanze.com.
Please visit when you get a chance. , Feel free [...]
I have posted my Top Tech Trends on LibrarianInBlack.net. Feel free to comment either here or there (though actually reading the trends first is preferred).
I just posted my trends over at Free Range Librarian. I realize I left off OPACs, after writing about them all fall. I’ll keep those thoughts as a extra-speshul treat for our meeting this Sunday morning at o’dark-thirty. See you all then!
Friday, January 11, 2008, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Please join the LITA Membership Development Committee and members from around the country for networking, good cheer, and great fun! Expect lively conversation and excellent drinks.
Cebu Restaurant and Bar123 Chestnut Street, Old City, Philadelphia (215) 629-1100
The hosts at Cebu have offered LITA the following:
Drink Specials:
$3 House [...]
Here, listed in no priority order, is a set of top technology trends/predictions for fellow librarians to chew on during the ALA Mid-Winter Meeting, 2008.
The use of Linux as a server platform as well as a desktop platform will increase - The latest version of Windows seems to have gone over like a lead balloon. [...]
For those blogging at Midwinter a blogging table and 4 chairs will be set up in the ALA office area in the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Additionally, free wireless internet service will be available in the Pennsylvania Convention Center in meeting rooms and corridors, (but not the exhibit hall) for use of ALA attendees during the [...]
The business meeting for BIGWIG (Blogs, Interactive Groupware, Wiki Interest Group) will take place on Sunday 1/13/2008 from 10:30 am to noon in Room 307B of the Philadelphia Conference Center. We currently have the following agenda items for the meeting.
1. Questions for LITA election podcasts
2. BIGWIG and Transparency
3. Conference podcasting: Guidelines, Procedures, Plans for Annual.
4. [...]
The LITA Public Libraries Technology Interest Group will meet on Sunday, January 13, from 10:30 am to noon in the South Ballroom of the Four Seasons Hotel. Kimberly Bolan and Robert Cullin, authors of Technology Made Simple: An Improvement Guide for Small and Medium Libraries, will join the group to talk about their guide and [...]
In Denver, I presented a 5 minute topic regarding the book a colleague of mine and I are writing a book entitled “Federated Search: A Librarian’s Guide”. We are surveying both library practitioners and the federated search vendors to get a complete picture of what the profession is looking for and what the current / [...]
As most of you have probably noted, I’ve been trying to make sure that information about standards activities coming through NISO (either NISO or ISO activities) gets onto the Standards Watch portion of the LITA Blog. The majority of these posts refer to upcoming ISO votes in which ALA has some interest as a NISO [...]