LITA BlogTuesday, March 6, 2007
9:00 a.m. “Science Wars: The Next Generation”
James Boyle, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law, Duke University, and co-founder of Center for the Study of Public Domain, is a member of the Creative Commons Board and one of the principal organizers of Science Commons.
Theme is technology has multiplied materials from which scientific research [...]
11:30 a.m. “Born Digital: Egypt’s New Bibliotheca Alexandrina”
Noha Adly, Director of Information and Communication Technology Department and International School of Information Science, research center, at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
Doing an incredible amount of creation of digital libraries, especially on Egyptian topics. Web site is http://www.bibalex.org/English/index.aspx.
2:00 p.m. “Transforming the National Library for 21st Century Service”
Deanna B. Marcum, [...]
This week, I (as well as other LITA members — it was like a reunion!) attended the De Lange Conference on Emerging Libraries at Rice University in Houston. It took place on March 5 - 7, but I only attended it through midday on Tuesday the 6th. The stated point of the conference was:
Rice University’s [...]
As some of you may have noticed, I have had trouble keeping the Tool Kit for the Expert Web Searcher current. In the process of preparing for my latest update, I found that the wiki function had become available, and the Tool Kit seemed ideal for that — um, once Bonnie Postlethwaite suggested it to [...]
Sunday, June 25th, 2006 8-10am
Hilton New Orleans Riverside – Burgundy
Introductions – Attending: Pat Ensor, Mike Bolam, Kate Montgomery, Richard Kim, James Longwell-Stevens, Jennifer Weintraub, Kari Swanson, Howard Spivak, Christina Biles, Bonnie Postlethwaite. Howard Spivak was the only member present who was outgoing, so pat gave him his certificate of recognition for his service to the [...]
The LITA Board of Directors usually devotes at least an hour of its Saturday meeting to discussion of an issue important to LITA. For this meeting, it was membership recruitment.
Discussion was focused around these issues:
Who do we want to recruit?
How do we attract members of other ALA divisions?
How do we target the different audiences we [...]
Want to be considered for future appointment to the LITA Membership Development Committee? Wonder why we don’t have the wisdom to do things your way? Come and tell us about it! You’re welcome to attend the meeting tomorrow morning. Yes, it’s at 8am — do you have the right stuff?!
Sunday, June 25th, 2006 8-10am
Hilton New [...]
Well, we’ve got a bloggers’ room at Annual Conference! It has separate tables and chairs that I’m sure we’ll end up pushing together when more than one person shows up. And it has power cords. All is right with the world.
I’ve only done one “conference” thing so far, but I want to share my excitement [...]
Well, first of all, if you were at the conference and not at the Town Meeting, you missed a great food spread. There was real food, folks — breakfast tacos, yogurt, fruit, bagels, pastries, AND a variety of juices.
While we ate, we got to view a photo montage of past involved LITA members who [...]
This was my first meeting as a member of the LITA Membership Development Committee; I’ll be chairing it after Annual Conference, so I have a lot of interest in getting the word out about what we do, as well as seeking input about how to get more members and better retain the ones we have.
See [...]