2007

ERM and e-Books

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 thinking about e-books management now. Even though many libraries are just getting used to e-journals management and might still learning the ins and outs of the licensing management stuff, many of these libraries are already delivering e-books. Start thinking on usage scenarios such as use for e-learning, e-reserve, and e-books as e-textbooks. Other e-books scenario are possible: single use circulation, institutional repositories, archiving and preservation especially in the wake of the digitization projects from Google and other commercial companies. There are several functional areas that a library needs to consider, ask, or make decisions: Acquiring e-books commercially…

2007

Top Technology Trends – ALA Annual 2007, part 6

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 our panelists. Next week, we’ll begin rolling out more podcasts from ALA Annual 2007, including the audio of the LITA President’s program as well as the Great Debate. Stay tuned! Now up: Joan Frye Williams.

2007

Top Technology Trends – ALA Annual 2007, part 5

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 the audio of the LITA President’s program as well as the Great Debate. Stay tuned! Now up: Walt Crawford.

2007

Top Technology Trends at ALA Annual

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 this into two parts- part one will be the presenters trends and part two will be the audience questions and discussion. Marshall Breeding, the Director of Innovative Technologies and Research at the Vanderbilt University Library: 1. Library Automation a. The changes in the marketplace especially those related to mergers have caused many libraries to reconsider their choice of provider and to look at open source products b. New commercial companies are looking at ways of interfacing with open source products and creating new ways of thinking about automation and systems c. Better front ends are…

2007

BIGWIG Business Meeting Notes, Annual 07

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 up and down. This will give the group continuity needed for projects as there will always be a chair with experience in office. We also have a Technical Coordinator who does back end work on the blog and a Volunteer Coordinator who organizes blogging efforts for conferences. New positions possibly needed: election interviews coordinator podcast volunteer coordinator Do we want to be a formal committee now that we are doing more committee-like work? Action: Michelle Boule will post committee requirements to the listserv for discussion Michelle Boule, Co-Chair, reports Blog Update categories…

2007

Top Technology Trends – ALA Annual 2007, part 4

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 the podcasts, and want to make sure that this sort of thing continues within LITA and the ALA, let us know! Leave comments and suggestions so that we know what everyone wants to see moving forward… Now up: Roy Tennant

2007

ERMS in Washington

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 still missing. They had good handouts and many examples illustrating their points. The session was blogged by the ERIG new chair-elect, Jennifer Lang on her blog: http://jenniferlang.net/archives/67.

2007

Next Generation Libraries: The 2.0 Phenomenon

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 just bought Reuters. Google Scholar serves your students up to advertisers. Advertisers pay to be on first page. Libraries are more complicated than Fed Ex. They only deliver one way. We deliver it out and get it back. IM and Meebo allow you to have a conversation. IM research increase risk students learning because they are familiar with this technology.