LITA Blog

Last updated 10/23/2006

LITA Blog is looking for volunteers for the LITA Forum in Nashville. If you would like to write a review of a session you are planning to attend, please email Michelle Boule with your contact information and the session you would like to cover. We will be taking volunteers up to and during the conference. You can either email Michelle as directed above or find our on site volunteer coordinator, Jason Griffey.

Wondering what exactly is going on during each session? Visit the official Concurrent Sessions, Keynote, and Preconference lists from LITA to see a complete description.

TBA Bloggers

Aaron Dobbs
Ranti Junus

PreConferences

Thursday, October 26, 1–5 p.m. and Friday, October 27, 8 a.m.—noon
Open Source Software Installfest Christina Hennessey
Developing Best Project Management Practices for IT Projects Rachel Vacek

KeyNotes

Friday, October 27, 1–2:30 p.m.
Save America’s Treasures: Preservation of Rare Acetate and Vinyl Recording Transcriptions Genny Engel, Danielle Plumer

Saturday, October 28, 9–10:30 a.m.
Libraries and Public Interest Entertainment Genny Engel

Sunday, October 29, 10:30 a.m.–noon
Web 2.0 and the Library 2.0 in Our Future Genny Engel

Concurrent Sessions

Concurrent Session 1: Friday October 27, 2:50pm-4:00pm

The Impending Demise of the Local OPAC Roger Hiles

Unbundling the ILS @ NCSU: implementation of a faceted catalog search (repeat session)

Evolutions in Subject Searching: the use of Topic Maps in Libraries Genny Engel

Preserving Born-Digital Government Information: UNT’s Congressional Research Service Reports Archive

Adding Bells & Whistles to the Web: The Blog and the Pod Laura Castillo

The Internet and the Experience Effect: a Closer Look Joy Weese Moll

Concurrent Session 2: Friday October 27, 4:20pm-5:30pm

Archiving the Digital Frontier: Saving Today’s Information for Tomorrow’s Use Chad Haefele

Building a Web Service for the Library World, from the Ground Up: The NISO Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) Brenda Chawner

One Size Does Not Fit All: Multi-Component Federated Search

Many Users, One Computer, and Access to Web Services: Information Technology Risk Management in Libraries Genny Engel

Aping Amazon: Making it Easy to Pay

Concurrent Session 3: Saturday October 28, 10:50am-noon

Improving Library Services with AJAX and RSS Feed Genny Engel, Nikki Wright

Use What You Have: Managing Digital Projects with Limited Resources

Web Delivery of Copyright Protected (DRM) Digital Media from Library Online Catalogs Danielle Plumer

Implications of Distributed GIS and Interoperative Web Map Services to Libraries

Are There No Limits to What NCIP Can Do? E-Commerce, Self-Service, Bindery, ILL, Statistics – New Applications for the NCIP Protocol Roger Hiles

Integrating Library Services Into Student and Researcher “Work Life” Campus Wide and Beyond

Concurrent Session 4: Saturday October 28, 1:30pm-2:40pm

Putting All the Pieces Together: Developing a Cyberinfrastructure at the Georgia State University Library Chad Haefele

Unbundling the ILS @ NCSU: implementation of a faceted catalog search (repeat session) Genny Engel

It’s About Time, It’s About Place: Designing Interoperable Modular Web Applications for Delivering Online Library Instruction Joy Weese Moll

Using the MPEG-21 DID Standard to Package Digital Content Danielle Plumer

Not So Different After All — Creating Access To Diverse Objects in Digital Repositories

Interactive Library Guides and Quizzes and How They Can Help

Concurrent Session 5: Saturday October 28, 3:20pm-4:30pm

Wikis: When is a Wiki the Right Answer? Roger Hiles

CUIPID 3: How to build a faceted searching and browsing interface for your library catalog Chad Haefele

Multimedia Tutorials for Remote Users Laura Castillo

New Tools for Preserving Digital Collections: An Update on the Web-at-Risk NDIIPP Grant

RFID and Libraries: Necessary Technology or Expensive New Mousetrap?

ALA Office for Information Technology Policy Update

Poster Sessions 8:00am-10:00am

Genny Engel
Laura Castillo

Concurrent Session 6: Sunday October 29, 9:00am-10:10am

Supporting Electronic Publishing in the Library: Developing DPubS, an Open Source Electronic Publishing Application Brenda Chawner

Thin Clients: The Spin on Thin Roger Hiles

Low Threshold Strategies for Libraries to Support “Other” Types of Digital Publishing Chad Haefele

How a Small Academic Library Developed Database Driven, Library Specific Web Applications Using Macromedia’s Cold Fusion