LITA BlogFirday 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 thinking about [...]
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 [...]
LITA Top Technology Trends 2007 - Joan Frye Williams [ 7:37 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3944)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, [...]
LITA Top Technology Trends 2007 - Walt Crawford [ 16:25 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3865)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 break [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
LITA Top Technology Trends 2007 - John Blyberg [ 11:15 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (10786)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 [...]