LITA BlogThe ALA Task Force on Electronic Membership Participation (TFOEMP) has been charged with evaluating ALA policy as it relates to members’ ability to engage with and interact with the work of the association through committees and other working groups. A survey of members’ practice and attitudes toward serving on Association committees, task forces, and interests [...]
A while back, BIGWIG started up Your BIGWIG as a place to collaboratively do stuff. One of the resources on Your BIGWIG is an embedded gCal.
One day, in a spirit of “too much stuff to do, so I’ll do something completely unrelated instead” I populated this calendar with all the LITA events I could find [...]
These are my notes from the Dialogue on Government Information meeting way back on December ~18th (sorry for the oversight)
Summary:
While several participants had differing views on why we all assembled, good discussion happened. ALA has mostly good processes for moving issues to and through Council for offical comment, which can break when stressed by the [...]
Per the Web Advisory Committee (WAC)
The design concept for the ALA website is now available for review. It’s up in Philadelphia on kiosks in the Pennsylvania Convention Center, but anyone can get to the site from anywhere. The URL is http://alamockups.luminanze.com.
Please visit when you get a chance. , Feel free [...]
Not an agenda post this time, link & minor synthesis instead.
WAC reviewed some Challenged Content Guidelines for discussion and possible adoption by Divisions
History: This is a response to a challenge to program write-up of a Program in 2003
Lots of cool stuff being done by ITTS, see the Agenda for the updates. We had wide ranging [...]
Saturday June 23, 2007 9:00 - 10:00 am
Washington Convention Center 209
Important Resources for Committee Chairs
LITA Staff
LITA Table at Conferences
LITA Committees web pages
Committee lists and membership
Reports submission form
All meetings are open (except awards or personnel matters
Please submit in timely manner (within a week or two of conference, please; not a week before the next conference) [...]
Saturday June 23, 2007 8:00 - 9:00 am
Washington Convention Center 209
1. Introductions all around
President Bonnie Postelwaithe
Vice President Mark Beatty
(I was stuck on a long bus and missed these 1st three)
Executive Director Mary Taylor
LITA experiences 5% growth this year
Mostly student members, we need to help our new mebers find their place in LITA
National Forum in Nashville [...]
ALA Open Space Technology Conference within the Conference
Washington Convention Center room 101
8:00 am to 4:00 pm
Saturday and Sunday
Do you find the most useful and energizing “session” is the ad hoc discussion in the hallway or during a break? Do you yearn to expand on those conversations with colleagues who share your passion for ideas and [...]
The ALA Web Advisory Committee would like to broaden their input-gathering process, so I’m posting it here. The link to the wireframes and survey has been added to the WebPlanning wiki, at http://wikis.ala.org/webplanning/index.php/Web_Planning
Please have a look at the mockups UserWorks created for ALA as a result of the usability assessment and subsequent exercises [...]
Thursday, June 21, 2007
9:00 - 4:00pm
Washington Convention Center, Room 147 A/B
I’m liveblogging this session over on my blog, so far I’ve heard:
Mark Lloyd, Center for American Progress
Mark was speaking about the necessity of urban library support for the rural libraries provisions in this year’s Farm Bill. Please say to your Senators and Representatives: [...]