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8:00 AM- 10:00 AM Location: Morial Convention Center room: Rm. 398-399

Kevin Moderow, Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County
In the 1990’s most of the Charlotte & Mecklenburg County branch libraries hired Automated Support Coordinators to handle public computer problems so the rest of the library staff did not have to answer those types of [...]

LITA Preconference Friday, June 23, 8:30 am – 2:30 pm
Contracting for Content in a Digital World
A panel of experts discussed the forces and interests on the national and international scene that are shaping the new terms libraries, publishers, aggregators and search engines are negotiating in contracts and licenses today. 
Sybil Boutilier, Manager of Contract Administration for [...]

Despite the crowded Monday 10:30 a.m. time slot, this program was packed to the gills, with over 160 in attendance and many more possible attendees who wandered up and then away as they saw how full the room was. My notes are spotty as I ran out of the room a couple of times for [...]

ALA Annual Conference, New Orleans, Monday, June 26, 2006, 8:30 am – 12:30 pm, New Orleans Marriott, Convention Center Hotel, Natchez Room

Members Only Content Report/Update
The task force has gathered the existing Members Only policies however Michelle Frisque was unable to get the task force to come to any conclusions/recommendations based on what we discovered. Michelle [...]

Cathy De Rosa, OCLC
John Horrigan PhD, Pew Internet & American Life Project
Cathy De Rosa, OCLC

She started by asking, “What do we see going on with our users?”
Users start their search on the internet. It is dominant. 84 % start there.

Only 1% start on a library website

Nothing’s changed!

In 1947-1950 there was a public library [...]

The Office of Information Technology Policy (OITP) Copyright Advisory Committee put a new twist on Copyright. The committee offered a poster session on Copyright titled “Copyright 101: Everything You Need To Know About Copyright But Were Afraid To Ask” which was held on Monday, June 26 from 1:30-3:30 at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside [...]

Cataloging Transformed: From Traditional to Emerging Models of Use: Part II
RUSA_RSS “Catalog Use Committee”Co-sponsored by RUSA-MARS “User Access to Services Committee”
Sunday June 25, 2006 4:00-5:30PM
Morial Convention Center Rooms 295-296
This is a continuation of my previous post which focused on Andrew Pace’s presentation (see his new blog here: http://blogs.ala.org/pace.php). To get an idea of the [...]

Web Coordinatng Committee Meeting
Present were:
Kyle Felker (your humble correspondent)
Tim Donahue: New Intern
Michelle Frisque: Outgoing chair
Aaron Dobbs
Nick Baker
Gail Herrera: IG coordinator, rotating off
Steve Turner
Rafal Kaprowski
Online communications/community space:
This has been implemented for a while now-how do we proceed from here/promote use? We already placed a link on frontpage of LITA site, what else? Make a larger graphical [...]

Sunday, June 25, 2006, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Marriott New Orleans at the Convention Center, Fleur de lis

Introductions: Attending: Laura Cohen, Chair; Holly Yu, Vice-Chair; Joe Fisher, incoming Vice-Chair; and Mike Sainsbury, Greater Victoria Public Library. This was one of our smaller meetings in a few years, but membership numbers are less of a key to the [...]

Cataloging Transformed: From Traditional to Emerging Models of Use
RUSA_RSS “Catalog Use Committee”Co-sponsored by RUSA-MARS “User Access to Services Committee”
Sunday June 25, 2006 4:00-5:30PM
Morial Convention Center Rooms 295-296
I was impressed by the size of the room and the attendance. There was an air of expectation and excitement bubbling quietly though the room as people filed [...]