LITA BlogI just posted my trends over at Free Range Librarian. I realize I left off OPACs, after writing about them all fall. I’ll keep those thoughts as a extra-speshul treat for our meeting this Sunday morning at o’dark-thirty. See you all then!
With my mind distracted by a new job, I feel my trends are a bit watery. However, a few readers have vastly improved what I will bring to the table, and I encourage you to keep putting lipstick on my piglet.
The one trend of mine I would underscore is the fledgling emergence of the open-source [...]
Despite the crowded Monday 10:30 a.m. time slot, this program was packed to the gills, with over 160 in attendance and many more possible attendees who wandered up and then away as they saw how full the room was. My notes are spotty as I ran out of the room a couple of times for [...]
This is the part of the conference where someone usually says, “Well… not too many posts yet on the LITA blog, ay?” And I usually mumble something like “soon you’ll see more,” and then the posts do indeed show up.
My own reality is that within hours of arriving at ALA I am flying [...]
I did a rather belated, cryptic post on my personal blog, Free Range Librarian, but though it refers to something Eric brought up–a certain welcome restlessness with the state of “library automation,” to use an icky phrase, or an acknowledgement that the OPAC sucks, to be more direct–it doesn’t quite snap to the grid of [...]
Ladies and gentlemen, charge your camera phones!
Any erstwhile bloggers, LITA Exec/Board types, sundry LITA members, or staff who would like to post to LITA’s Flickr account, give me or Michelle Boule a holler. We have a special email address you can use for posting (good for cameraphones), or you can send pix to the group, [...]
We’re testing the LITA blog to make sure our feeds properly handle media enclosures (podcasts and whatnot). The podcast isn’t very interesting, but here it is: LITA Blog Podcast Check. It should show up in your aggregator, and the label is probably “enclosure.”
Michelle Boule, LITA Blog Scheduling Maven, has again done a great job (and keep those Midwinter posts coming fast and furious, folks!). We had dozens of high-quality posts which serve as info-tainment for current LITA-lubbers, lure for LITA wannabes and maybes, and a convenient archive for ensuring that usefully incriminating evidence such as past [...]
Sing ho for Kevin, Kevin ho! Last fall, Kevin Clarke set up a combined RSS feed for the LITA Blog that updates when a comment is added to a post (as well as when a post is added), and it’s truly RSS-alicious. If you want to follow the various comments and kibitzing–and let’s face it, [...]
Michelle Frisque, ALA WAC chair, will no doubt have far more fulsome coverage of this meeting later on, but as a WAC member, I wanted to share that we said our piece to Jim Rettig, ALA Executive Board member and WAC liasion, regarding the importance of ensuring that the ALA dues increase would support ALA’s [...]