LITA Blog8:00 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 Hotel [...]
Cataloging Transformed: From Traditional to Emerging Models of Use: Part II RUSA_RSS “Catalog Use Committeeâ€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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Cataloging Transformed: From Traditional to Emerging Models of Use RUSA_RSS “Catalog Use Committeeâ€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 [...]