LITA BlogDid you attend a LITA program at the 2008 ALA Annual Conference?
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Thanks to the Internet Resources and Services Interest Group (IRSIG), there was another Ultimate Debate panel at ALA Annual 2008. The title this year was “There’s No Catalog like No Catalog”, and we are remarkably lucky that we were able to get a full recording of the debate for podcast here on LITABlog.
Enjoy!
Ultimate Debate 2008 - There's no catalog like no catalog [105:47m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadThanks to the efforts of all involved, we were able to get a very clean soundboard recording of this year’s Top Tech Trends program. Hope that everyone enjoys the recording, and comment and let us know what you think! Without feedback, we can’t tell if you like it or hate it.
Just so that everyone is aware: the LITA Blogger’s room, open to anyone who needs a quick ‘net connection, can be found at:
Hilton convention center, Carmel Room. The Carmel room is up 2 escalators from the lobby.
See you there!
This is not an organized LITA endeavor, but as a proof-of-concept for BIGWIG, I am going to be streaming as much as I can from ALA Annual 2008. The service I’m using for this is called Ustream, and the live channel can be found here:
http://www.ustream.tv/griffey
Because of the vagaries of internet access at the various convention [...]
Cindi Trainor, in a fit of Twitter-induced brilliance, started putting together a Google Map for ALA Annual 2008 in Anaheim. Included thus far are hotels and restaurants, but people are still adding to it, so it’s value should increase as we get closer and closer to the conference. Take a look!
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For all of the LITA members visiting Anaheim with us in a couple of weeks that haven’t planned your days yet, BIGWIG has put together a Google Calendar with all of the LITA events listed. Why did we bother? Well, for those of us that use Google Cal, it makes planning your LITA stuff as [...]
The LITA Blogs, Interactive Groupware and Wikis Interest Group (otherwise known by the sobriquet BIGWIG) is pleased to announce a new online presence for the group:
www.yourbigwig.com
What is YourBIGWIG? Straight from the site itself:
BIGWIG has created this website in order to facilitate communication between BIGWIG members, potential members and interested parties. We hope to use this [...]
Hello all! Due to a reasonably severe security issue regarding Wordpress, we had to rush an upgrade to version 2.5. For those that login to post, you’ll notice that the interface is a bit different, but the functionality is still all there. There is a lot of information on the web regarding this new version [...]