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LITA Happy Hour

January 8th, 2008 by mbeatty

Friday, January 11, 2008, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Please join the LITA Membership Development Committee and members from around the country for networking, good cheer, and great fun! Expect lively conversation and excellent drinks.
Cebu Restaurant and Bar123 Chestnut Street, Old City, Philadelphia (215) 629-1100
The hosts at Cebu have offered LITA the following:
Drink Specials:
$3 House [...]

LITA Applicants for the ALA Emerging Leaders Program

August 2nd, 2007 by mbeatty

It’s time to apply to the ALA 2008 Emerging Leaders program.
What Is the Emerging Leaders Program?
Emerging Leaders began in 2007 and ALA has committed to making this program available annually. The Emerging Leaders program enables 120 new librarians to get on the fast track to ALA and professional leadership. To find out how you can [...]

LITA Standards Interest Group program

July 7th, 2007 by mbeatty

At the Annual 2007 American Library Association conference in
Washington in June, the LITA Standards Interest Group sponsored a program
entitled “Using Metadata Standards in Digital Libraries: implementing METS,
MODS, PREMIS and MIX”. This session explored how libraries are using
emerging standards to manage and provide navigation for digital library
objects and featured the following:
* Rebecca Guenther, Library of Congress: [...]

Lita Town Meeting 2007 Report

June 17th, 2007 by mbeatty

Lita Town Meeting 2007 Report:
Including Results from the Group Snow Card Activity.
Big huge thanks to Michelle Boule for compiling the large stack of papers and cards into something that resembled an organized mass.
LITA Town Meeting
What does success look like for LITA and it’s members? Mark Beatty, LITA Vice President, gave a quick environmental scan. [...]

Committee and IG Reports

April 27th, 2007 by mbeatty

Folks,
I’ve just added a Committee and IG Reports category to the blog listings. So if you are putting committee and IG reports or meeting minutes, please use this new category so it’s easy for folks to find those useful reports. Thanks.
Mark

LITA Town Meeting

January 19th, 2007 by mbeatty

LITA President-Elect Mark Beatty invites LITA members to the LITA Town Meeting, to be held on Monday, January 22, 2007, from 8–10 a.m. in Room 606 of the Washington State Convention & Trade Center in Seattle.

Recent years’ Town Meeetings have focused on gathering input for the LITA Strategic Plan, which was approved by the LITA [...]