LITA Blog

LITA Blog is looking for volunteer bloggers for ALA Annual 2008 in Anaheim. If you would like to write a review of a session you are planning to attend, please email Tiffany Smith with your contact information and the session you would like to cover. We will be taking volunteers up to and during the conference.

Wondering what exactly is going on during each session? Visit the official LITA at Annual page or the Meetings and Schedules page for all ALA events to see complete descriptions.

Names of bloggers appear in bold next to session. If there is no name after a session title, please feel free to sign up for it!

Friday - June 27

• Library-Wide IT Proficiency 08:00 am - 05:00 pm
• Datagrid Technologies and Libraries 09:00 am - 05:00 pm
• Getting Started With Drupal: An Open Source Web Content Management System 09:00 am - 05:00 pm, Chris Strauber
• Executive Committee Meeting 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
• Electronic Resources Management Interest Group 06:30 pm - 08:00 pm, Jaclyn Bedoya
• LITA 101: Open House 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm
• LITA Happy Hour 05:30 pm - 08:00 pm

Saturday - June 28

• Blogger’s Room 08:00 am - 06:00 pm
• Joint Committee and Interest Groups Chairs 08:00 am - 09:00 am
• RFID in Libraries: The Myths, FAQs, and ROI 08:00 am - 10:00 am
• If We Don’t Call it Distance Learning, Does it Exist? 08:00 am - 12:00 pm, Lisa Gieskes
• Board of Directors 09:30 am - 12:00 pm
• Building and Supporting Koha , an open-source ILS 10:30 am - 12:00 pm, Chris Strauber
• Committee Chairs 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
• MARBI (ALCTS/LITA/RUSA Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information Committee) 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
• Interest Groups Chairs 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
• Public Libraries Technology Interest Group 10:30 am - 12:00 pm, Paul Keith
• Brett Butler Award Committee 01:30 pm - 03:30 pm
• Human Machine Interface Interest Group 01:30 pm - 03:30 pm
• Legislation and Regulations Committee 01:30 pm - 03:30 pm
• MARC Formats Interest Group 01:30 pm - 03:30 pm
• National Forum Committee 2008 01:30 pm - 03:30 pm
• Publications Committee 01:30 pm - 03:30 pm
• Social Software Showcase 01:30 pm - 03:30 pm
• There’s No Catalog Like No Catalog: The Ultimate Debate on the future of the Library Catalog 01:30 pm - 03:30 pm; Lisa Thomas
• What the User Expects and How to Get There 01:30 pm - 05:30 pm
• Education Committee 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm, Pat Ball
• Science Fiction and Fantasy: Looking at Information Technology and the Information Rights of the Individual 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm, Lisa Gieskes
• Transformational Change: The Evolving Role of Library IT Departments 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm
• Standards Interest Group 04:00 pm - 06:00 pm
• Web Coordinating Committee 04:00 pm - 06:00 pm

Sunday - June 29

• Archiving in Practice with JPEG2000 08:00 am - 10:00 am
• Bylaws and Organization Committee 08:00 am - 10:00 am
• Membership Development Committee 08:00 am - 10:00 am
• Technology and Access Committee 08:00 am - 10:00 am
• Creating the Future of the Catalog and Cataloging, 08:00 am - 12:00 pm
• Heads of Library Technology Interest Group 10:30 am - 12:00 pm, Pat Ball
• Internet Resource Services Interest Group 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
• JPEG 2000 Interest Group 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
• The Open Library: Promise and Peril 10:30 am - 12:00 pm, Jacqui Grallo & Stacy Dematteo
• Program Planning Committee 10:30 am - 12:30 pm, Ranti Junus
• Technology Electronic Reviews Committee 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
• MARBI (ALCTS/LITA/RUSA Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information Committee) 01:30 pm - 06:00 pm
• You Know FRBR, But Have You Ever Met FRAD 01:30 pm - 05:30 pm, Glenda Claborne
• Top Technology Trends 01:30 pm - 03:00 pm, Robin Hastings, Cindi Trainor
• Awards Reception 03:00 pm - 04:00 pm
• President’s Program: Isn’t it great to be in the library…wherever that is? 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm, Nancy Deegan

Monday - June 30

• Blog and Wiki Interest Group (BIGWIG) 08:00 am - 10:00 am, Cindi Trainor
• Imagineering Interest Group 08:00 am - 10:00 am
• National Forum Planning Committee 2009 08:00 am - 10:00 am
• Emerging Technology Interest Group 10:30 am - 12:00 pm, Jim Hahn
• ITAL Editorial Board Committee 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
• Legal Issues in Developing Open Source Systems for Libraries 10:30 am - 12:00 pm, Chris Strauber
• Next Generation Catalog Interest Group 10:30 am - 12:00 pm, Richard Guajardo
  
• Assessment and Research Committee 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
• International Relations Committee 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
• Library Consortia and Systems Interest Group 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
• Program Planning Committee 10:30 am - 12:30 pm, Ranti Junus
• Bylaws and Organization Committee 01:30 pm - 03:30 pm
• Keeping Your Computers Up and Running — We Can Help! 01:30 pm - 03:30 pm, Robin Hastings
• MARBI (ALCTS/LITA/RUSA Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information Committee) 01:30 pm - 03:30 pm
• National Forum Committee 2008 II 01:30 pm - 03:30 pm
• Open Source Systems Interest Group 01:30 pm - 03:30 pm, Chris Strauber
• Collaborative Digital Initiatives: Show and Tell and Lessons Learned 01:30 pm - 05:30 pm

Tuesday - July 1

• Board of Directors 01:30 pm - 04:30 pm

Sessions TBD: