Archive for December, 2008

LITA Town Meeting

December 18th, 2008 by Melissa Prentice

LITA President-Elect Michelle Frisque invites LITA members to the LITA Town Meeting, Monday, January 26, 2009, 8:00 am – 10:00 am, Colorado Convention Center, Korbel Ballroom 2C.
Meet your fellow LITA members, and participate in a conversation about what role LITA plays in the larger information, association, community-building, and technology- related landscape. What makes LITA [...]

LITA Happy Hour in Denver

December 18th, 2008 by Melissa Prentice

Friday, January 23, 2009, 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.
Lodo’s Bar & Grill
1946 Market Street
Denver, CO, 80202
303.293.8555

LITA Workshop in Denver

December 18th, 2008 by Melissa Prentice

LITA is offering User Centered Design for Digital Projects prior to ALA’s Midwinter meeting in Denver on Friday, January 23, 2009, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm.
Learn about design process for managing digital projects in libraries, usability theory and methodology. Receive practical steps to implement a design process in your own library plus a copy of [...]

LITA IG plans at Midwinter 2009

December 15th, 2008 by waltcrawford

Seven of the 17 LITA Interest Groups responded to repeated requests for their plans at the 2009 ALA Midwinter Meeting.
You’ll find those plans here, on the LITA Wiki.
One of the other ten IGs has since noted that it’s not meeting at all during Midwinter.
That leaves nine unaccounted for–nine IGs for which one of the following [...]

Wordpress 2.7

December 11th, 2008 by jgriffey

LITABlog is now running the most current version of Wordpress, version 2.7 (codename Coltrane). The backend look and feel of the blog is a little different in this version, so if anyone needs any help navigating, don’t hesitate to let us know in the comments.
Thanks!

LITA/Library Hi-Tech Award Deadline Extended

December 1st, 2008 by ctrainor

Is there a resource or person that you turn to time and again to learn about or brush up on your tech skills? Is there a librarian or professor that you learn from who deserves to have her or his work recognized? Please consider nominating this person for the 2009 LITA/Library Hi-Tech Award. [...]