Archive for June, 2008

ALA Annual Calendar for LITA Events

June 13th, 2008 by jgriffey

For all of the LITA members visiting Anaheim with us in a couple of weeks that haven’t planned your days yet, BIGWIG has put together a Google Calendar with all of the LITA events listed. Why did we bother? Well, for those of us that use Google Cal, it makes planning your LITA stuff as [...]

NGCIG Meeting at Annual: Next Steps in Next Generation Catalogs

June 12th, 2008 by zoe

The LITA Next Generation Catalog Interest Group will meet on Monday, June 30, 10:30 a.m. - Noon.
Anaheim Convention Center, 213 C
We will have presentations and discussion about two examples of recent next generation catalog endeavors.
Karen Schneider (Evangelist for Equinox’s Evergreen support) will share what she does as an Evangelist by giving some real world, grounded [...]

New Standard: WARC (Web ARCive) file format

June 4th, 2008 by Diane Hillmann

LITA has received news of new standards activity of interest from Cindy Hepfer, ALA Representative to NISO (HSLcindy@buffalo.edu)
“A new ballot has been presented to TC46 Ballot Advisory Group: ‘ISO/DIS 28500, WARC file format’. This is a new standard at the Draft International Standard (DIS) stage, and this may be the last chance to provide substantive [...]

ISBN Systematic Review Is Here!

June 4th, 2008 by Diane Hillmann

Those interested in identifier issues should take note of this updated info from Cindy Hepfer, ALA Representative to NISO (HSLcindy@buffalo.edu).
“A new ballot has been presented to TC46 Ballot Advisory Group: ‘ISO 2108:2005 (ISBN) Systematic Review’. This is a systematic review ballot of the published standard, ISO 2108:2005, Information and documentation — International Standard Book Number [...]

Survey from the Task Force on Electronic Membership Participation (TFOEMP)

June 2nd, 2008 by AaronDobbs

The ALA Task Force on Electronic Membership Participation (TFOEMP) has been charged with evaluating ALA policy as it relates to members’ ability to engage with and interact with the work of the association through committees and other working groups. A survey of members’ practice and attitudes toward serving on Association committees, task forces, and interests [...]