LITA BlogEver-vigilant Cindy Hepfer, ALA Voting Representative to NISO, has forwarded an additional three items to us from NISO. The first is a proposed new work Item on Single Sign-On (SSO) Authentication. From the explanation provided by NISO: “This year NISO has launched a new Chair’s Initiative–a project of the chair of NISO’s Board of Directors, [...]
Cindy Hepfer, ALA’s busy voting representative to NISO, has forwarded to us some additional information on upcoming voting pools. The first one, designated Group 5, invites ALA to join a number of NISO voting pools for three standards due for review. The first two standards listed are the responsibility of the Content & Collection Management [...]
DATE: 1/24/2009 GROUP: Assessment and Research Committee CHAIRS: Diane Bisom, Bonnie Postlethwaite REPORTER: Bonnie Postlethwaite CONFERENCE: Midwinter MEETING: Committee meeting ATTENDEES: 12 CURRENT ACTIVITIES: Discussion Items & Actions: Approved minutes from prior meeting. Mary Taylor presented data files on LITA membership (available on Committee’s Google docs site). Available data points cover various parameters, such as [...]
Polls are open for ALA and LITA elections. Visit http://www.alavote.org/2009 to cast your ballot. Visit the LITA web site for more info on candidates running for LITA office. Polls close April 29.
LITA has volunteered to assist in the implementation of the Electronic Participation Task Force report in any way that is deemed appropriate. Mary Ghikas, ALA Senior Associate Executive Director, has posed the question, if ALA provides Internet connectivity in hotels as well as the convention center for Annual Conferences and Midwinters, what can we do [...]
DATE: 1/25/2009 GROUP: Technology and Access Committee CHAIR: David Nutty REPORTER: David Nutty CONFERENCE: Midwinter MEETING: Committee meeting ATTENDEES: 9 CURRENT ACTIVITIES: Planning for a program at ALA Annual Chicago has been the main focus of the committee prior to and at the Midwinter Meeting in Denver. The committee has focused the topic to Net [...]
DATE: 1/24/2009 GROUP: Education Committee CHAIRS: David Ward, Mandy Havert REPORTER: David Ward CONFERENCE: Midwinter ATTENDEES: 12 CURRENT ACTIVITIES: LITA Education combined with Regional Institutes in the past year. We spent from Annual 08 – Midwinter 09 reviewing our charge and creating organizational documents to track and help guide the newly combined committee’s role. Part [...]
DATE: 1/23/2009 GROUP: LITA/Brett Butler Entrepreneurship Award CHAIR: Martin Halbert REPORTER: Martin Halbert CONFERENCE: Midwinter ATTENDEES: 5 CURRENT ACTIVITIES: The LITA Brett Butler Award Committee met on Saturday, January 24, 2009, at 1:30 PM in the Colorado Convention Center room 712. Several members were absent because of budget cuts in travel at their institutions. Attending [...]
This year the Forum 2009 Planning Committee is trying something new. We are asking the community of LITA members and potential Forum attendees to give the Committee feedback on which proposals they would be most interested in seeing presented as concurrent sessions at Forum. The Committee will add this information to other factors in determining [...]
Have you ever been “speed-geeking?†Been struck by “lightning-talks� Join your colleagues and keynoters Joan Frye Williams and John Blyberg at the first-ever, LITACamp, “The Everywhere Library: Creating, Communicating, Integrating,†May 7-8 in Dublin, Ohio. Participants determine the topic and format of the sessions on-site, sign up for time slots and pitch session ideas to [...]