LITA BlogThe Bash
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Leslie Burger threw a great party last night. Everyone had a blast and there was lots of mingling. It was nice to have the Gulf Coast Librarians there and they told us to stop having book drives for them, but we can donate particular things they need by going to www.deweydonationsytem.org
Stopped off at Leslie Burger’s Blogger Bash, which turned out to also be a Celebration for Gulf Coast Library Heroes (the PL employees who just kept coming to work to hlep the public — even though they may have been/still are in the same or worse straits as the general public).
Had a grand time, tik-takking [...]
LITA Standards IG, Saturday, June 24, 2006
Managing Identifiers
Moderator, Pat Stevens
Pat told a story about attending an ISO meeting in Asia where one topic was the international trade in ring tones. She pointed out that public identifiers are critical to link heterogeneous services, they require support—technical and social infrastructure. The presenters were asked to talk [...]
The Ultimate Debate: Who Controls the Future of Search
sponosred by LITA’s Internet Resources Interest Group
Saturday June 24, Convention Center
Moderator:
Roy Tennant, California Digital Library
Disputants:
Stephen Abram, Sirsi/Dynix (also president-elect of SLA)
Joe Janes, Univ. of Washington
Be it resolved that the future of search will occur without library influence.
A series of sample questions, paraphrased as:
Will large commercial search services [...]
ALA Membership Committee I
6/24/2006 10:30 AM — 12:00 PM
Morial Convention Center Rm. 290
Mostly fyi, since I’m sure tired of the whole membership dues issue, Council tasked the ALA Membership Committee to study what should be covered in a study about the possibility of a graduated dues structure. Dizzying resolution, imho.
If you’re interested in this sort [...]
Just a reminder to those attending: The LITA Happy Hour is tonight (Saturday) from 5:30-7:30 at the Wolfe Restaurant in the New Orleans Marriott. Love to see you there!
The LITA Board of Directors usually devotes at least an hour of its Saturday meeting to discussion of an issue important to LITA. For this meeting, it was membership recruitment.
Discussion was focused around these issues:
Who do we want to recruit?
How do we attract members of other ALA divisions?
How do we target the different audiences we [...]
The meeting was facilitaed by Matt Calsada, LITA IG Coordinator.
* IG Renewals - Mary Ellen Tyckoson, Bylaws & Organization Committee, discussed items missing from renewal forms and IG’s not heard from re: their renewals. Suggestion was made to change wording so IG only has to attach reports from the last 3 meetings if they [...]
The meeting was chaired by Scott Muir, LITA Committee Coordinator and Matt Calsada, LITA IG Coordinator.
* LITA President Pat Mullin reminded everyone to get the word out quickly about program/meeting changes (use the blog, for example).
* The incoming LITA Web Manager is David Altenhof (couldn’t be here due to flight cancellation).
* LITA Vice President Bonnie [...]
Okay, I admit it. The main reason I coughed up $200 for this seminar was so I could figure out what to do with my subject guides. Happily, the experience was more than worth it, as I came away from ACRL’s “Taking Your Library Liaison Program to the Next Level” a little brighter and a [...]