Archive for the 'ALA 2007' Category

ERM and e-Books

July 5th, 2007 by Ranti

Firday June 22, 2007
LITA ERM Interest Group did a managed discussion on e-books. Ted Koppel, Verde ERM Product Manager (ExLibris) gave the talk. (Note: Verde just starts working on e-books management system.) His function in this talk was basically asking questions and raising awareness on e-books management.
Koppel suggested that we start [...]

Top Technology Trends – ALA Annual 2007, part 6

July 5th, 2007 by jgriffey

The sixth and penultimate of our Top Technology Trend podcasts from this year’s ALA Annual meeting is here! There were six Trendsters live at ALA Annual, and this section is devoted to Joan Frye Williams. The Q & A session from Top Tech will go up here tomorrow, full of interesting differences of opinion from [...]

 
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Top Technology Trends – ALA Annual 2007, part 5

July 4th, 2007 by jgriffey

The fifth of our seven part Top Technology Trend podcasts from this year’s ALA Annual meeting is here! There were six Trendsters live at ALA Annual, and this section is devoted to Walt Crawford. The remainder will be spread out along this week.
Next week, we’ll begin rolling out more podcasts from ALA Annual 2007, including [...]

 
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Top Technology Trends at ALA Annual

July 3rd, 2007 by Heidi Pettitt

Hi All,
I’m a student as Syracuse University attending my first ALA and am very excited to be able to blog the Top Technology Trends (TTT) Panel. I see the discussion has already started so I’ll try to keep this short, but there were a lot of ideas discussed. I am also going to [...]

BIGWIG Business Meeting Notes, Annual 07

July 3rd, 2007 by Michelle Boule

Jason Griffey, In-Coming Chair reports
What is BIGWIG? A working IG interested in social and emerging technologies. We do our work and discussions virtually using all tools possible. We are not a simple discussion group.
Our current structure is as follows:
We have an incoming chair, two co-chairs, and an outgoing chair. One chair is always in movement [...]

Top Technology Trends – ALA Annual 2007, part 4

July 3rd, 2007 by jgriffey

The fourth of our seven part Top Technology Trend podcasts from this year’s ALA Annual meeting is here! There were six Trendsters live at ALA Annual, and this section is devoted to the one and only Roy Tennant. The remainder will be spread out, one per day, for the rest of the week.
If you’re enjoying [...]

 
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Top Technology Trends – ALA Annual 2007, part 3

July 2nd, 2007 by jgriffey

The third of our seven part Top Technology Trend podcasts from this year’s ALA Annual meeting is here! There were six Trendsters live at ALA Annual, and this section is devoted to the LibraryWebChic herself, Karen Coombs. The remainder will be spread out along this week. Stay tuned to listen to your favorite, or save [...]

 
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ERMS in Washington

June 29th, 2007 by Diane Hillmann

One of the best sessions I attended at Annual this year was ERMS Continues: More on Standards and Systems, presented by the ALCTS Electronic Resources Interest Group. Linda Miller (Library of Congress) and Kathy Klemperer (consultant) presented a wonderfully coherent overview of the current standards environment for electronic resources management, how it developed, and what’s [...]

Top Technology Trends – ALA Annual 2007, part 2

June 29th, 2007 by jgriffey

The second of our seven part Top Technology Trend podcasts is here! There were six Trendsters live at ALA Annual, and this second installment is by John Blyberg. The remainder will be spread out along this and next week. Stay tuned to listen to your favorite, or save them up and listen all together.
Now up: [...]

 
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Next Generation Libraries: The 2.0 Phenomenon

June 28th, 2007 by Jen

Next Generation Libraries: The 2.0 Phenomenon
Stephen Abram
Joe James
Stephen’s Lighthouse blog for slides
Change is coming and everyone will be effected.
FaceBook – get your name and face out there. Let them know your name. Stand behind your word. Get libraries to evolve by de-cloaking. Show who they are and what their specialties are.
MySpace merging with Yahoo. Thompson [...]