LITA BlogMeeting had a nice surprise of some new faces… with 15 people in attendance. Yea! What can you see as usefulness of a group like PLTIG? We had a lively discussion on some ideas: Competencies in technology in small & rural libraries … survey being done by Emerging Leaders. Roving Service model and the types [...]
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From 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM the Class of 2009 Emerging Leaders met to learn about their assigned projects, meet with their groups, and learn about the expected outcomes of the program. Presentations by Leslie Berger, Maureen Sullivan, Connie Paul, and Peter Bromberg taught lessons on leadership and working in virtual teams. Jim Rettig and [...]
The LITA Next Generation Catalog Interest Group will meet on Sunday, January 25, 4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. in Colorado Convention Center Room 110 We will have presentations and discussion about two examples of recent next generation catalog endeavors. Beth Jefferson (Founder of Bibliocommons) will share real world examples and implications of “Transforming online library [...]
For each conference, ergo biannually, ALA insiders and ALA staff route information about what’s happening in their area(s) of the Association to Mary Ghikas, who attempts to make sense of it all. The result of all this effort is a ~30 page document deatiling some of the major goings-on at a given conference/meeting. I’ve found [...]
Following in the steps of the BIGWIG Google Calendar for LITA’s Midwinter activities, here’s a Google Map of the Midwinter places, populated by BIGWIG and friends. Thanks, as always, to Cindi for getting the maps for ALA Conferences started. View Larger Map
A special membership town hall meeting has been called for Saturday, January 24th, 2009 from 3:00 to 4:30 in the Colorado Convention Center Four Seasons Ballroom. (which is also where ALA Council meets) What library issues are most important to ALA members to share with President Obama? Â The ALA Town Hall Meeting will discuss this [...]
For those that haven’t seen it, BIGWIG has, for the last few ALA conferences, provided a Google Calendar with all of the LITA events on it. This makes it easy to remix, subscribe to via RSS, or via iCal. Just click on the day, and you’ll see a list of the LITA events happening in [...]
Our semi-annual gathering of trendsters to converse about the leading technologies and tech topics of the day will take place in Denver in just over a week. This year we’re blowing the doors off of Top Tech so that you can follow the conversation and participate in the discussion from anywhere–California, Maine, Florida, or even from another conference session in Denver.
*Reminder* CALL FOR PROPOSALS The 2009 National Forum Committee seeks proposals for high quality concurrent sessions and poster sessions for the 12th annual LITA National Forum to be held at the Hilton Salt Lake City Center hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah from October 1-4, 2009. This year we have switched over to online submissions [...]