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Questioning Authorities: Adapting Authority Control to the Changing Needs of Library Users. Presented by LITA/ALCTS CCS Authority Control Interest Group. June 25, 1:30 p.m. Large room, full-ish but not packed at the beginning. As usual with this IG, this is a long, intense program with quite varied presentations, so I will break into two entries. [...]

Questioning Authorities: Adapting Authority Control to the Changing Needs of Library Users: LITA/ALCTS CCS Authority Control Interest Group (part 2) Manon Theroux, Authority Control Librarian at Yale, gave a thorough and deliberate presentation on the vernacular field authority control issue which was a bit of a relief to this note taker after trying to keep [...]

Sunday, June 25, 4-5 pm in the Sheraton New Orleans A good crowd appeared for the LITA President’s Program: Internet Culture: What Do We Know About User Behavior? despite some location confusion. The conference program guide correctly identified the location as the Sheraton New Orleans on page 34 but misdirected readers to the Marriott across [...]

Sunday, June 25, 1:30-3:30 pm The portions are too large. This can be said when your red beans and rice comes with two fried pork chops and a big pile of onion rings. It can also be said of the presentation Your Library’s Intranet: The Hidden Tool, Not So Sexy, But Oh So Satisfying. Everything [...]

Open Source Programs for the Reference Librarian: When Your Budget is More Limited Than Your Vision LITA Open Source Systems Interest Group Sunday June 25 8:30-10 Speakers (in order): Ranti Junus, Michigan State Teria Curry, Johns Hopkins Kirsten Allen, American University Mary Evangeline, Univ. of Arizona George Harmon, Florida State (note: editorial parentheticals are by [...]

Very impressive baritone telling people the session is about to start. We need have this guy recorded and announcing that “the library is now closing” all across the country. The session led off with a surprisingly moving video of ALA and New Orleans, outlining the recovery efforts of the past year. They showed some amazing [...]

Top 10 Tech Trends [This is always a great session. This year, the format was a little different and allowed for more time and discussion between the panel members and the audience. I liked the new set up, but I wished the panel members would have gotten a couple more minutes each. They were limited [...]