Join your LITA colleagues in Albuquerque, Nov 5-8, 2041 for the 2014 LITA Forum.
- The guaranteed discount hotel rate at the Hotel Albuquerque ends Tuesday Oct. 14th, 2014
- Registration closes Monday Oct. 27th, 2014
This year’s Forum has three amazing keynotes you won’t want to miss:
AnnMarie Thomas, Engineering Professor, University of St. Thomas
AnnMarie is an engineering professor who spends her time trying to encourage the next generation of makers and engineers. Among a host of other activities she is the director of the Playful Learning Lab and leads a team of students looking at both the playful side of engineering (squishy circuits for students, the science of circus, toy design) and ways to use engineering design to help others. AnnMarie and her students developed Squishy Circuits.
Check out AnnMarie’s fun Ted Talk on Play-Doh based squishy circuits.
Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President, OCLC Research and Chief Strategist
Lorcan Dempsey oversees the research division and participates in planning at OCLC. He is a librarian who has worked for library and educational organizations in Ireland, England and the US.
Lorcan has policy, research and service development experience, mostly in the area of networked information and digital libraries. He writes and speaks extensively, and can be followed on the web at Lorcan Dempsey’s weblog and on twitter.
Kortney Ryan Ziegler, Founder Trans*h4ck
Kortney Ryan Ziegler is an Oakland based award winning artist, writer, and the first person to hold the Ph.D. of African American Studies from Northwestern University.
He is the director of the multiple award winning documentary, STILL BLACK: a portrait of black transmen, runs the GLAAD Media Award nominated blog, blac (k) ademic, and was recently named one of the Top 40 Under 40 LGBT activists by The Advocate Magazine and one of the most influential African Americans by TheRoot100.
Dr. Ziegler is also the founder of Trans*H4CK–the only tech event of its kind that spotlights trans* created technology, trans* entrepreneurs and trans* led startups.
See all the keynoters full bios at the LITA Forum Keynote Sessions web page.
More than 30 concurrent colleague inspired sessions and a dozen poster sessions will provide a wealth of practical information on a wide range of topics. Networking opportunities, a major advantage of a smaller conference, are an important part of the Forum. Take advantage of the Thursday evening reception and sponsor showcase, the Friday networking dinners or Kitchen Table Conversations, plus meals and breaks throughout the Forum to get to know LITA leaders, Forum speakers, sponsors, and peers.
This year two preconference workshops will also be offered.
Linked Data for Libraries: How libraries can make use of Linked Open Data to share information about library resources and to improve discovery, access, and understanding for library users
Led by: Dean B. Krafft and Jon Corson-Rikert, Cornell University Library
Learn Python by Playing with Library Data
Led by: Francis Kayiwa, Kayiwa Consulting
2014 LITA Forums sponsors include EBSCO, Springshare, @mire, Innovative and OCLC.
Visit the LITA website for more information.
Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) members are information technology professionals dedicated to educating, serving, and reaching out to the entire library and information community. LITA is a division of the American Library Association.
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