LITA Blog

Last Updated June 22, 2006

LITA Blog is looking for volunteers to blog sessions, areas of interest, and goings-on in New Orleans.

Below you will find a preliminary list of programs; these are the priority coverage areas for ALA Annual, but LITA welcomes and encourages input on other programs, meetings, and events. Please feel free to volunteer for items not listed. Note that multiple blogging of events is acceptable and even for big events encouraged.

To volunteer, prior to June 23 contact Michelle Boule, the coordinator for the LITA Blog Conference Schedule. For on-site volunteers we will add information closer to conference.

Unsure of your schedule and still want to volunteer? Be indecisive and be a TBA Blogger!
TBA Bloggers
Kristin Boyett
Aaron Dobbs
Pat Ensor
Zoe Stewart-Marshall

Local Color:

Friday, June 23rd

8:30a.m.-2:30p.m.
LITA Preconference: Contracting for Content in a Digital World Will Stuivenga

8:30a.m.-4:30p.m.
ACRL Preconference:Take Your Library Liaison Program to the Next Level: Strategies for Outreach and Integration Steve McCann

7:30p.m. Electronic Resource Management IG

Saturday, June 24th

8a.m. Publisher Packages in the E-World Rick Roche

8a.m. LITA Committee and IG Chairs Kitti Canepi
8:30-9:30a.m. LITA Committee chairs only Jennifer Ward
8:30-9:30a.m. LITA IG chairs only Kitti Canepi

8:30a.m.-10a.m
Free eReserves: Saving Money, Saving Time, and Expanding Services with Open Source
Software

1:30p.m.-3:30p.m.
Computer Industry Certifications for Librarians and Library Staff
RFID in Libraries: An International Perspective
The Ultimate Debate: Who Controls the Future of Search Chris Strauber
Science Fiction: The Literature of Ideas Cassie Wagner
Web Coordinating Committee Kyle Felker, Michelle Frisque

1:30p.m.-5:30p.m.
ALCTS: Digital Rights Management and Institutional Repositories: Achieving Balance
in a Complex Environment Claire Stewart

4:00p.m-5:30p.m.
LITA Standards IG Diane Hillmann

5:30p.m.-7:00p.m.
Opening General Session with Madeleine Albright Will Stuivenga, Steve McCann

5:30p.m.-7:30p.m.
LITA Happy Hour at The Wolfe Restaurant, located in the New Orleans Marriott

10:30p.m.-Midnight
Leslie Burger’s Blogger Bash Karen Schneider

Sunday, June 25th

8a.m.-Noon
Core Competencies in Library Technology: What IT is and where IT’s going Michelle Frisque

8:30a.m.-10a.m.
Open Source Programs for the Reference Librarian Chris Strauber

10:30a.m.-Noon
Podcasting the Classroom: Impact, Implications, and Implementations…
BIGWIG IG Meeting Michelle Boule

1:30p.m. Your Library’s Intranet Rick Roche

1:30p.m.-3:30p.m.
ALA Video Round Table – Are we there yet: Digital delivery of moving image media in libraries

1:30p.m.-3:30p.m. Top Technology Trends Alex Cohen

1:30p.m.-5:30p.m.
Questions Authorities: Adapting Authority Control to the Changing Needs of Library Users Steve McCann, Laura Akerman

3:30p.m.-5:30p.m.
President’s Program: Reading, the Essential Skill

4p.m.-5p.m.
LITA President’s Program: Internet Culture: What Do We Know About User Behavior? Lauren Pressley, Rick Roche

4p.m.-5:30p.m.Catalog Transformed from Traditional to Emerging Models of Use Jennifer Smathers

Monday, June 26th

8a.m.-Noon
EBook 3.0: The Convergence of the Mobile Lifestyle Media Platform Chris Strauber

10:30-Noon
Next Stop Blogging: Building a Professional Blog… Michelle Boule
Emerging Technology Interest Group Michelle Kowalsky

1:30p.m.-5:30p.m.
Future Directions for Digital Library Initiatives: Addressing the Challenges of Collaborations and Sustainability Jen Wolfe

1:30p.m.-3:30p.m.
ALA OITP Copyright Advisory Committee – Copyright 101: Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask Pat Ball

Tuesday, June 27th

8a.m.-9a.m.
Closing Session Will Stuivenga, Jennifer Smathers