LITA BlogLITA is offering some great preconferences this year. Both are full-day workshops held on Friday, July 10, 2009 in Chicago. Though they are held in conjunction with the ALA Annual Conference, you do NOT need to attend Annual to register for them. Creating Library Web Services: Mashups and APIs del.icio.us subject guides, Flickr library displays, [...]
LITA currently does not have a single system to gather, evaluate and approve program proposals that are submitted and share the information among the relevant committees. The LITA Program Planning Committee, LITA Education Committee, LITA National Forum 2009 Committee and LITA Camp are all using various systems to review and select appropriate programs for their [...]
Another announcement by Cindy Hepfer, ALA Voting representative to NISO (and recent recipient of the Ross Atkinson Lifetime Achievement Award!) has arrived. This announcement builds on earlier efforts to establish voting pools for standards requiring reaffirmation, forwarded by the NISO Content and Collection Management Topic Committee. This group has been assigned the name of Group [...]
Cindy Hepfer, ALA Voting representative to NISO, sends us a new ballot announcement to start our week. This one is ISO/CD 13028, Implementation guidelines for digitisation of records. The text supplied with this ballot explains: “This is the first ballot on a new standard, ISO/CD 13028, Information and documentation — Implementation guidelines for digitisation of [...]