LITA BlogLITA’s Education Committee welcomed all incoming committee members. The main topic of discussion was the planning of a web based course. Results of a recent educational needs survey were also discussed. The areas identified in the survey as topics of interest include: Open Source Software for Libraries; Metadata Structure and Translation/Crosswalk; Integrating [...]
More standards news from Cindy Hepfer, ALA Representative to NISO (HSLcindy@buffalo.edu):
A systematic review ballot of the published standard, ISO 2108:2005, Information and documentation — International Standard Book Number (ISBN), has been presented to TC46 Ballot Advisory Group. This is an opportunity for ALA to provide feedback on the 13-digit ISBN. ALA’s vote options [...]
Some new standards news is available from Cindy Hepfer, ALA Voting Representative to NISO. She reports that the ‘Digital Talking Book Standard Revision Project Approval’ ballot is now available, to approve the initiation of a revision of ANSI/NISO Z39.86, Specifications for the Digital Talking Book. The revision proposal submitted by the standard’s maintenance agency, the [...]
Did you attend a LITA program at the 2008 ALA Annual Conference?
If so, please take a few moments to tell us what you thought of LITA’s programming by completing an evaluation; your honest, candid answers will assist us in providing quality programs in the future. Click on the link below or copy and paste [...]
SUSHI- Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) update: http://www.niso.org/workrooms/sushi
Adam Chandler presented an overview of what was happening with SUSHI – it’s available at http://www.niso.org/workrooms/sushi/info/SUSHI_ALA_Annual_2008-nisoupdate.ppt.
First he gave some background on SUSHI itself. SUSHI uses the COUNTER schema – it’s a protocol for moving statistics between two systems. Just the exchange – [...]
Science Fiction and Fantasy: Looking at Information Technology and the Information Rights of
the Individual, Saturday, 28 June 2008, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm in the Anaheim Convention Center, 304 A/B, Anaheim, CA (Disneyland)
Distinguished science fiction and fantasy authors discussed their ideas about old and new technologies, how technology impacts humanity and future implications for privacy [...]
LITABlog was just updated to the newest version of Wordpress, 2.6. For those that poke around behind the scenes, if you are interested in the newest features, here’s a video overview:
Monday, June 30th, 2008
Anaheim Convention Center
Sharon M. Shafer, Vice Chair, welcomed everyone to the 3rd meeting of the Next Generation Catalog Interest Group.
The program panelists included Karen G. Schneider, Equinox Software, Sara Davidson, University of California, Merced, and Amy Kautzman, University of California, Davis,
“Running a Free and Open Source Software ILS does Not Equate to [...]
Getting Started with Drupal (a.k.a. Drupal4LITA Bootcamp)
Preconference, June 27th, 2008
Anaheim Public Library
Cary Gordon of the Cherry Hill Company, a vendor specializing in support of open source software, gave an extremely detailed introduction to Drupal 6.2, the latest version of the open source content management system. The attendees came from a variety of library types, including [...]
If We Don’t Call it Distance Learning, Does it Exist?
Saturday, 8 am-noon, Paradise Pier Hotel in Anaheim, CA (Disneyland)
Presenters:
Kim Duckett, Librarian for Digital Technologies and Learning, North Carolina State University Libraries, Chad Haefele, Reference Librarian, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Samantha Hines, Assistant Professor, Distance Education Coordinator and Social Sciences Librarian, University of Montana, [...]