Blog Schedule: LITA National Forum 2008

LITA Blog is looking for volunteer bloggers for the LITA National Forum 2008 in Cincinnati. If you would like to write a review of a session you are planning to attend, please email Michele Mizejewski with your contact information and the session you would like to cover. We will be taking volunteers up to and during the conference. For fuller description of the sessions, see the main page.

NOTE: 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!

THURSDAY, October 16, 2008

1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Preconference I:

  • Marketing the Value of the Library’s IT Department
    Grace Sines & Gary McCone of National Agricultural Library, MD

1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Preconference II:

  • Innovations in Next Generation Library Management Systems — Fagdeba (Bako) Bakoyema
    Andrew Nagy, Villanova University; Tim Daniels, Pines Program Manager; Darrell R. Ulm, Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library

FRIDAY, October 17, 2008

8:00 a.m. - noon Preconference I (continued):

  • Marketing the Value of the Library’s IT Department
    Grace Sines & Gary McCone of National Agricultural Library, MD

8:00 a.m. -noon Preconference II (continued):

  • Innovations in Next Generation Library Management Systems — Fagdeba (Bako) Bakoyema
    Andrew Nagy, Villanova University; Tim Daniels, Pines Program Manager; Darrell R. Ulm, Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library

1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Opening General Session — Eric Schnell

  • Tim Spalding, found and developer, LibraryThing.com

2:50 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions

  • Civil Rights Digital Library — Julie Shedd
  • Crowdsourcing Digitization: Harnessing Workflows to Increase Output
  • The State of Technology Access and Funding in U.S. Public Libraries: A National Study
  • Using Open Source Software to Develop a Digital Video Library
  • User-Centered Design for Humanities Collections within a Digital Library — Carmen Mitchell
  • LibX – Enhancing User Access to Library Resources — Sara Memmott

4:20 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions

  • Portals to Learning: What librarians can learn from video game design — Cody Hanson
  • Distributed Digital Preservation Networks: Three Working Examples — Ranti Junus
  • Podcasting for Public Librarians 101: Or, If a Children’s Librarian Can Do This, So Can You!
  • Course Management Systems: Integrating Library Content, Panel Discussion – Nina McHale
  • Re-swizzling the IT Enterprise for the Next Generation: Creating a Strategic and Organizational Model for Effective IT Management — Eric Schnell
  • Don’t Make Me Choose! (or, Just Get What I Need!): Making It Simple to Borrow — Todd Vandenbark

6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Sponsor Showcase & Reception

SATURDAY, October 18, 2008

8:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Sponsor Showcase

9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. General Session:

  • Hi-Fi-Sci-Fi-Library: Technology, Convergence, Content,Community, Ubiquity and Library, Michael Porter, Community Product Manager, WebJunction

10:50 a.m. - noon Concurrent Sessions

  • Institutional Repositories: Design and Development, Panel Discussion — Gretchen Gueguen
  • Five-minute Madness — Nina McHale
  • Bringing Information Literacy into the Social Sphere: A Case Study Using Social Software to Teach Information Literacy at Wake Forest University
  • Building a Web Based Laboratory for Library Users — Eric Schnell
  • Library 2.0 PDQ: Meeting the Challenges of the Rapid Growth of Distance Learning and Off-Site Courses at a University Regional Campus — Julie Shedd
  • How We Stuffed the Six Floors of Milner Library into the Palm of Your Hand

1:30 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. Concurrent Sessions

  • Hacking Web 2.0: Protecting wikis, blogs and SQL databases
  • Putting the Library Website in Their Hands: The Advantages and Challenges of a Homegrown Content Management System — Eric Schnell
  • Use of Digital Displays in a Library Environment
  • Building your own collaborative Web applications with Drupal, an Open Source Content Management Software — Nina McHale
  • A Faceted Browsing Approach to Duke’s Digital Collections: Using Open-Source Platforms to Enhance the User Experience — Carmen Mitchell

3:20 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions

  • The Chronopolis: Digital Preservation Archive Development and Demonstration Program
  • Navigate Library Mazes through Online Interactive Map
  • ALA Washington Office update
  • Web Site Redesign: Perspectives from the Field, Panel Discussion — Virginia Kinman
  • Participation and Power: Combining Community Features with Existing Metadata in NextGen Public Interfaces — Gretchen Gueguen
  • Universal Search Solution - NELLCO’s IMLS National Leadership Grant

Evening Networking Dinners

Open Gaming Night

SUNDAY, October 19, 2008

8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast

8:00 - 10:00 a.m. Poster Sessions

9:00 - 10:10 a.m. Concurrent Sessions

  • Optimizing Library Resources for Screen Readers — Ranti Junus
  • WorldCat Local – a Statewide Discovery Toolkit Project
  • Community First: using technology to connect people and library service through the decades — Sara Memmott
  • Designing for participation: Building capacity in the library profession through participatory networking — Eric Schnell
  • Illogical Students: Don’t Blame ‘Em, Game ‘Em

10:30 a.m. - noon - Closing General Session:

  • Obligation of Leadership, R. David Lankes, director of the Information Institute of Syracuse University

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