LITA BlogThe 2012 National Forum Committee seeks proposals for high quality pre-conferences, concurrent sessions and poster sessions for the 15th annual LITA National Forum to be held in Columbus, OH, October 3 – October 7, 2012. The 2012 theme is: New World of Data: Discover. Connect. Remix. The Forum Committee is interested in pre-conferences and presentations [...]
New vacancy listings are posted weekly and appear under New This Week and under the appropriate regional listing. Postings remain on the LITA Job Site for a minimum of four weeks. New Posting: Senior Software Developer (Digital Libraries), Alexander Street Press, Alexandria, VA Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for [...]
WHEN: Monday, January 23, 8:00 am – 10:00 am, Dallas Convention Center, D220 Meet your fellow LITA members, and participate in a conversation about how LITA responds to and involves its membership in the larger information, association, community-building, and technology-related landscape. LITA, like most of the library community, faces many challenges that strike at the [...]
WHEN: Sunday, January 22, 2012, 10:30am – 12:30pm central time WHERE: Dallas Convention Center Room A201/202 Twitter #alamwttt We have a great slate of panelists for the Midwinter 2012 session: Stephen Abram, Gale Cengage Learning Marshall Breeding, Vanderbilt University Library Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC Nina McHale, Arapahoe Library District, Colorado Sue Polanka, Wright State University Libraries [...]
LITA is pleased to announce that Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL) will become an open-access, electronic-only publication, beginning with the March 2012 issue (volume 31, issue 1). This change will help ensure the long-term viability of the journal by making it more accessible, more current, more relevant, and more environmentally friendly. ITAL will continue to [...]
For those of you heading to Dallas in a couple of weeks, remember LITA Happy Hour as you put together your conference schedule. Here’s your chance to catch-up with your LITA friends, and maybe make some new ones. If you’re new to LITA, the Happy Hour is a great opportunity to get to know other members [...]