LITA Blog

Last Updated 6/11/2007

ALA Annual is in the nation’s capitol in June and LITA Blog will be on hand to report all of the best in technology and libraries. If you would like to have your meeting covered or if you would like to volunteer to write about a meeting which you plan to attend, please email Jonathan Blackburn, the Volunteer Coordinator. We will be taking volunteers up to and during the conference!

You can view the complete list of LITA events on the official LITA ALA Annual 2007 events page.

This is not a complete list of everything that the LITA Blog will be covering at this year’s Annual Conference. The schedule will continue to grow as people volunteer. If you are the chair of a committee or you are attending a meeting which you think is important, please consider volunteering. All events with a volunteer’s name beside it in bold is covered.

TBA Bloggers (for those who are blogging but are not certain which session JUST YET):

• Will Stuivenga
• Aaron Dobbs
• Chad M. Haefele
• Zoe Stewart-Marshall
• Theodore Hornoi-Centerwall
• Jennifer Smathers
• Rose Nelson
• Kevin Clair
• Jason Puckett

Preconferences: Fri, June 22

9am-4:30pm

• Simplifying Complex Projects Using Dotproject for Project Management

Fri, June 22

6:30pm-8:00pm

• Electronic Resources Management I.G., Ranti Junus

Sat, June 23

8:00am-9:00am

• Joint Committee and Interest Groups Chairs Meeting, Lorre Smith

9:30am-10:30am

• Committee Chairs, Lorre Smith
• Interest Groups Chairs, Irmgarde Browne

9:30am - 12:30pm

• Board of Directors 1, Michelle Boulle

10:30am-12:00pm

• MARBI Committee with Open Source Software, Kevin Clair
• Distance Learning I.G., Lauren Pressley
• Imagineering I. G.
• JPEG 2000 I.G.
• Libraries2Go: Library Services for Handhelds, Lisle McKenty

1:30pm-3:30pm

• Social Software Showcase (BIGWIG) Discussion,

Michelle Boule

• Education Committee, Barbara Spivey
• Human Machine Interface Interest Group Lorre Smith
• LITA National Forum Planning Committee I
• LITA/ALCTS MARC Formats Interest Group
• Next Generation Catalogs Interest Group, Jenny Mauer
• Publications Committee
• RFID In Libraries: New Developments
• The Literature of Ideas
• The Ultimate Debate: Do Libraries Innovate?, Julia Bauder

1:30pm-4:30pm

• UNO OCLC Symposium: Is the Library Open?, Lisle McKenty

4:00pm-5:30pm

• The Open ILS: PINES, the Evergreen Open-ILS Program & The University of Rochester Extensible Catalog Project, Karen Schneider

4:00pm-6:00pm

• The Google Five Libraries: Two Years, Six Months, and Seven Days in the Life of Google Library Project, Lisle McKenty
• Standards Interest Group, Eva Bolkovac
• Web Coordinating Committee

5:30pm-8:00pm

• LITA Happy Hour, Claudia Hill

Sun, June 24

8:00am-10:00am

• Bylaws and Organization Committee I
• Membership Development Committee, Lorre Smith
• Public Libraries Technology Interest Group, Pat Ball and Lisle McKenty
• Technology and Access Committee

10:30am-12noon

• Blog and Wiki Interest Group (BIGWIG) Business Meeting
• Building the Next Generation Public Library Web Site with Drupal, Melissa Shepherd and Lisle McKenty
• Digital Library Technologies Interest Group, Julia Bauder
• Heads of Library Technology Interest Group
• Internet Resource Services Interest Group
• Legal Challenges to Digitization Projects
• Regional Institutes Committee
• Sakai Collaboration and learning Environment, Chris Strauber
• Technology Electronic Reviews Committee
• Harnessing the Hive: Social Networks and Libraries, Lisle McKenty

1:30pm-3:00 pm

• Top Technology Trends Panel, Heidi Pettitt and Lisle McKenty

1:30pm-3:30pm

• Bringing Order to Chaos: Managing Metadata for Digital Collections, Abigail Meisterman
• Authority Control Meets Faceted Browse, Jenny Mauer

1:30pm-6:00pm

• MARBI Committee

4:00pm-5:00pm

• LITA President’s Program: Tag! Your IT!: Online Digital Audio Collections Meet PennTags

Mon, June 25

8:00am - 10:00am

• The Future of Information Retrieval, Julia Bauder

10:30am-12 noon

• International Relations Committee, Claudia Hill
• ITAL Editorial Board Committee
• Library Consortia and Systems Interest Group
• LITA National Forum Planning Committee II
• LITA National Forum Planning Committee (2008)
• UNO OCLC Catalog of Art Museum Images Online: Increasing Access to Art Image - an Overview and Demo, Lisle McKenty

1:30pm-3:30pm

• Bylaw and Organization Committee II
• MARBI Committee
• Open Source Systems Interest Group, Chris Strauber
• Copyright 101, Pat Ball

1:30pm-5:30pm

• Using Metadata Standards in Digital Libraries: Implementing METS, MODS,PREMIS and MIX