Author Archive

Next Generation Libraries: The 2.0 Phenomenon

June 28th, 2007 by Jen

Next Generation Libraries: The 2.0 Phenomenon
Stephen Abram
Joe James
Stephen’s Lighthouse blog for slides
Change is coming and everyone will be effected.
FaceBook – get your name and face out there. Let them know your name. Stand behind your word. Get libraries to evolve by de-cloaking. Show who they are and what their specialties are.
MySpace merging with Yahoo. Thompson [...]

LITA Next Generation Catalogs IG

June 28th, 2007 by Jen

LITA Next Generation Catalogs IG
Saturday 1:30-3:30
Inaugural Meeting – meeting following this session at 3:30 p.m. to decide speakers and topics for next meeting.
Speaker 1
Don Barlow

Westerville Public Library
Serve 86,000 people
Quality program and services made available so people will use it.
Users expect info to be delivered to them with highly personalized interfaces.
Combine quality, convenience and social [...]

New Technical Services Supervisor? Check Here for Help

June 28th, 2007 by Jen

New Technical Services Supervisor? Check Here for Help
Saturday, June 23, 2007 4-5:30 p.m.
LAMA / SASS

Based on a book that the committee wrote. Available in the store tomorrow (only 20). ALA discount and no shipping because
ALA made a mistake on the count.

Dr. Joan Giesecke
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
Dean of Libraries

Getting Started – Command [...]

Authority Control Meets Faceted Browse

June 28th, 2007 by Jen

Authority Control Meets Faceted Browse, ALCTS Authority Control IG, June 24, 2007
PowerPoints available at the authority control interest group LITA/ALCTS

Kathryn LaBarre,
Science
University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaignklabarre@uiuc.edu
Concept of bringing search and browsing together. We are in the period of experimentation: metadata standards, web 2.0, folksonomy, leverage, and facets.
Look to interconnections available with authority data. Authority [...]