LITA BlogJason Griffey of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga presented a brief, bright and breezy look at the basics of wikis and their use in libraries to an attentive group of about 60 attendees at the end of day two of the 2006 LITA National Forum.
The basic appeal of the wiki is that it is [...]
On the final day of the 2006 LITA National Forum, Helene Gold, electronic services librarian at Eckerd College (St. Petersburg, Florida) described how thin clients are being integrated into the computing environment in the college’s new library. The 25 people who braved Forum-fatigue to attend were not disappointed by Helene’s engaging and accessible presentation.
When [...]
This session was subtitled “E-Commerce, Self-Service, Bindery, ILL, Statistics - New Applications for the NCIP Protocol”, and as the session began attendees got an answer to the question posed by the title, as presenter Ted Koppel of Ex Libris admitted that new applications for NCIP have not been as plentiful as was anticipated, so the [...]
Gregg Silvis presented his view of the not-so-rosy future of the local OPAC to a capacity crowd on the first day of the 2006 LITA National Forum.
Reviewing the origins of today’s OPACs in the card catalogs of yore, he focused on the duplication of effort that has always been a part of the [...]