LITA BlogSince we’re in Nashville, of course our first keynote is Saving America’s Treasures: Preservation of Rare Acetate and Vinyl Recording Transcriptions, featuring speakers from the Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum.
John Rumble spoke, with Alan Stoker and Steve Maer to answer content and technical questions.
The Hall of Fame is run by the non-profit Country [...]
Registration is now open for the 2006 LITA Forum.
I was supposed to blog the danah boyd keynote [note: she has now posted it here], but it’s now difficult to view it outside the context of the subsequent Michael Gorman luncheon speech. When I dutifully met with the other members of the LITA Forum 2005 committee on Sunday morning, they remarked [...]
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Streaming multimedia - why to do it, how to do it, what they do with it at the National Agricultural Library. If you missed this one, let me just say, you missed a good show. John Gladstone is a fun speaker, and, well, it was a talk about multimedia, so we [...]
Walk a block north of the conference hotel to the Tech Museum, where this exhibit of historic video games opened today. TheTech.org
May Chang’s workshop on open source communication and collaboration tools, Thursday, Sept. 29.
I’m on the 25th floor of the San Jose Marriott. They gave me a room facing the right direction, towards the eastern hills. If you look out the other side of the building you have a choice of at least four different freeways to watch the traffic crawling along.
On entering the Marriott, please [...]
San Jose State University’s School of Library and Information Science will hold a reception during LITA Forum:
Saturday, October 1, from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Marriott Arcadia Room
All LITA Forum attendees are welcome. SLIS Associate Director Linda Main will host. Stop by, say hi, and grab some munchies!
Going to San Jose for LITA Forum? San Jose Public Library happens to be seeking some Senior Librarians. Applications are due by next Wednesday, August 24. They expect to be able to arrange interviews for the week when you’re in San Jose for LITA Forum.