Archive for May, 2008

Official Call for LITA Bloggers at ALA Annual

May 29th, 2008 by Tiffany Smith

The ALA Annual Conference is just a few short weeks away, and we are again looking for volunteers to post brief summaries of LITA-sponsored sessions on the LITA Blog (http://litablog.org).  While you’re visiting Anaheim to learn, meet up with old friends, and engage in discussion about the newest new things in library technology, why not [...]

gCalendar of LITA events at Annual 2008

May 29th, 2008 by AaronDobbs

A while back, BIGWIG started up Your BIGWIG as a place to collaboratively do stuff.  One of the resources on Your BIGWIG is an embedded gCal.
One day, in a spirit of “too much stuff to do, so I’ll do something completely unrelated instead” I populated this calendar with all the LITA events I could find [...]

2008 LITA Election Results

May 2nd, 2008 by mprentice

Vice-President/President-Elect: Michelle Frisque
Directors-at-Large (Serving 3-year terms): Mona Couts; Colleen Cuddy; Lorre Smith
New ALA Councilors who are LITA Members: Aaron Dobbs; Ling Hwey Jeng; Wei Jeng-Chu; Carla J. Stoffle; Julie Su
More information about the winners is available at the LITA Web site.

2008 National Forum Registration Open

May 1st, 2008 by mprentice

Online registration is available beginning May 1 for the 2008 LITA National Forum, “Technology & Community: Building the Techno Community Library,” to be held October 16-19 at the Hilton Netherland Plaza Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio. Visit http://www.lita.org/forum08 to register for the Forum and for information on keynotes, preconferences, concurrent and poster sessions.

Your BIGWIG

May 1st, 2008 by jgriffey

The LITA Blogs, Interactive Groupware and Wikis Interest Group (otherwise known by the sobriquet BIGWIG) is pleased to announce a new online presence for the group:
www.yourbigwig.com
What is YourBIGWIG? Straight from the site itself:

BIGWIG has created this website in order to facilitate communication between BIGWIG members, potential members and interested parties. We hope to use this [...]