LITA BlogStephen Abram, VP of Innovation at SirsiDynix, closed out the 2006 LITA Forum on Sunday morning.
One of his first statistics was that libraries collectively ship and circulate more than Amazon.com every day. But we’re not like Amazon in a lot of other ways. We’ve decided we should be making decisions for [...]
Robert H. McDonald and Shane Nackerud summarized two different aspects of low threshold digital publishing. Robert covered Florida State University’s program of various institutional repository tools, and Shane outlined the University of Minnesota’s UThink blogging platform.
One of the big advantages of an institutional repository program to FSU was that it gave them something to [...]
(note: the preconference material referred to the software as CUIPID 3, but a new version has since been completed)
CUIPID (pronounced “cupid”) is the University of Rochester’s Catalog User Interface Platform for Iterative Development. Built by their Digital Initiatives Unit, it serves as an experimental base for library catalog enhancements.
David Lindahl and Jeff Suszczynski were [...]
Tim Daniels and Doug Goans from Georgia State University presented this talk.
I had never heard the term ‘cyberinfrastructure’ before this presentation, and am still not sure I entirely grasp the basics. But here’s what I picked up:
Cyberinfrastructure is really a mindset or an overall vision at an institution. It takes a more global [...]
Kristine Hanna was the main speaker for this session, and Linda Freuh also contributed. Both are from the Internet Archive.
The session opened with a brief outline of the history of the Internet Archive. They were founded in 1996, and are a non profit organization dedicated to, well, archiving the Internet. They crawl [...]