LITA BlogVice-President/President-Elect: Michelle Frisque
Directors-at-Large (Serving 3-year terms): Mona Couts; Colleen Cuddy; Lorre Smith
New ALA Councilors who are LITA Members: Aaron Dobbs; Ling Hwey Jeng; Wei Jeng-Chu; Carla J. Stoffle; Julie Su
More information about the winners is available at the LITA Web site.
Online registration is available beginning May 1 for the 2008 LITA National Forum, “Technology & Community: Building the Techno Community Library,” to be held October 16-19 at the Hilton Netherland Plaza Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio. Visit http://www.lita.org/forum08 to register for the Forum and for information on keynotes, preconferences, concurrent and poster sessions.
Library webmasters, usability teams, and administrators will want this authoritative reference on usability.
In Making Library Web Sites Usable, a LITA guide to be published by Neal Schuman on February 11, 2008, authors Tom Lehman and Terry Nikkel show library webmasters, usability teams, and library administrators how to turn confusing, unappealing Web sites into the kind [...]
Help shape the future of LITA’s website! LITA is looking for an energetic, creative and experienced Web Manager. The LITA Web Manager is responsible for the content and services available on the LITA website. The Web Manager makes policy recommendations to the Board on issues such as page appearance, standards and technologies used on [...]
LITA Congratulates Lauren Pressley- the New Emerging Leaders Program Participant.
The Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) Board is pleased to announce its sponsorship of Lauren Pressley to the ALA Emerging Leaders Program. Lauren is currently the Instructional Design Librarian at Wake Forest University and co-chair of the LITA Distance Learning Interest Group. In [...]
Job Description and application process
In cooperation with the LITA Board, LITA staff, and the Web Coordinating Committee and interest group chairs, the Web Manager is responsible for the content and services available on the LITA website. The Web Manager makes policy recommendations to the Board on issues such as page appearance, standards and technologies used [...]
LITA is offering our User Centered Design Regional Institute prior to ALA Midwinter in Philadelphia on Thursday and Friday, January 10-11, 2008.
Day 1: Design Process; Day 2: Usability
Learn about design process for managing digital projects in libraries and usability theory and methodology. This workshop covers two days, and can be attended for either day, [...]
Please consider submitting nominations for the following 2008 awards:
-Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology is sponsored by OCLC and LITA. The deadline for nominations is December 31, 2007. For full details, please see the press release: http://www.lita.org/ala/lita/newandnoteworthy/2007_Kilgour_Award_nominations_sought_.cfm
-LITA/Brett Butler Entrepreneurship Award is sponsored by Thomson Gale and LITA. [...]