LITA BlogLITA Blog and Wiki Interest Group Social Software Showcase
Sat., 6/23, 1:30-3:00
Renaissance Mayflower Cabinet Room
Part II of the Social Software Showcase. It’s tres cool that the Showcase is via a wiki.
A group of library 2.0 users sat at different tables and discussed and demo-ed different software. It was hard to take it all in. I spent [...]
RUSA MAR–Chair’s Program
Harnessing the Hive: Social Networks and Libraries
Sunday, 6/24 10:30 am-12:00 pm Convention Center Room 144 A-C
A standing room only crowd (300+) greeted what was definitely a hot topic (ubiquitous, too :D). The meeting included the RUSA MARS business meeting, which was brief. The Rethinking Reference preconference was sold out, and will be offered [...]
The Boyfriend and I arrived in DC Thursday night. We’re staying at the Holiday Inn on Thomas Circle. It is posh by our standards: we have two bathrooms, a fridge, a microwave, iron, blowdryer, coffeemaker, etc. I have been sick most of the last week with a stomach bug. I can finally eat again, but [...]
ALA RUSA MARS–Hot Topics
Libraries2Go: Library Services for Handhelds
Sat., 6/23 10:30 am-12:00 pm
J W Marriott Salon IV
Moderator, Mark Dehmlow of Notre Dame University joined via Skype. Home (Indiana?) awaiting birth of child.
GRE word for the day is ubiquity. 95% of students have cell phones. Libraries need to portal their services to where the users are (except [...]
6/25/2005
RUSA/MARS User Access to Services Committee
Do You Trust Your IT Staff? Do They Trust you?
Talk about a topic close to my heart! Though somehow, in thinking about it before the conference, in my mind it morphed into “Does Your It Staff Hate You?” In fact, around Wednesday, I had to talk to someone in IT [...]
ALCTS PARS Reformatting Committee
Sunday, June 26, 2005
8:00-10:00 a.m.
Analog and Digital Preservation Technology
Apologies for the lateness and the brevity of this post. I was both late for this session and had to leave early—the very worst kind of guest. However, I determined that I still really wanted to blog it. I went for the brief time [...]
ALCTS Newspaper Users Discussion Group
Sat., 06/25/2005
2:00-4:00 p.m.
Palmer House Private Dining Room 5
Smallish room, approx. 25 attendees tops. I recognize most from previous NUDG sessions at midwinter and annual.
OCLC Terminologies Project and the Newspaper Genre List.
Eric Childress and Diane Vizine-Goetz, both from OCLC
The mapping of fields from the U.S. Newspaper Project (circa 1970-1990) to MARC fields [...]
“We will all be out of our comfort zone for a while.”
Googling the Better Mousetrap: Cyber Resources on the Front Line of Reference
RUSA 2005 President’s Program
Monday, 06/27/2005
Sheraton Chicago Ballroom VI/VII
[Mere minutes late! Getting better at timing leaving the McCormick wifi teat and busing to a hotel. In my next life, I’m staying at the Sheraton. [...]
LITA top trends
[Note: I keep editing this on shuttle buses--hotel room does not have chair, back is killing me, and related issues. But still...]
7th floor historic tower of Hotel Inter-Continental
Just little late this time—like 5 minutes while searching for Grand Ballroom. 7th floor not intuitive. Not as grand as Hilton grand ballroom (or GB in [...]
At OCLC Symposium (arrived 40 minutes late. came directly from airport. traffic, etc.).
These are pretty rough notes. Overall, it was a very interesting program on the role of libraries in the long tail, with a variety of viewpoints. Wish I hadn’t been late. I tend to be kind of worried about this issue. One questioner [...]