LITA BlogThe first of our seven part Top Technology Trend podcasts from this year’s ALA Annual meeting is finally here! There were six Trendsters live at ALA Annual, and the first lucky one to be podcast is Marshall Breeding. The remainder will be spread out along this and next week. Stay tuned to listen to your [...]
LITA Top Technology Trends 2007 - Marshall Breeding [ 7:18 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (7993)LITA Next Generation Catalogs IG Saturday 1:30-3:30 Inaugural Meeting – meeting following this session at 3:30 p.m. to decide speakers and topics for next meeting. Speaker 1 Don Barlow Westerville Public Library Serve 86,000 people Quality program and services made available so people will use it. Users expect info to be delivered to them with [...]
New Technical Services Supervisor? Check Here for Help Saturday, June 23, 2007 4-5:30 p.m. LAMA / SASS Based on a book that the committee wrote. Available in the store tomorrow (only 20). ALA discount and no shipping because ALA made a mistake on the count. Dr. Joan Giesecke University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries Dean of Libraries [...]
Authority Control Meets Faceted Browse, ALCTS Authority Control IG, June 24, 2007 PowerPoints available at the authority control interest group LITA/ALCTS Kathryn LaBarre, Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaignklabarre@uiuc.edu Concept of bringing search and browsing together. We are in the period of experimentation: metadata standards, web 2.0, folksonomy, leverage, and facets. Look to interconnections available [...]
LITA Blog and Wiki Interest Group Social Software Showcase Sat., 6/23, 1:30-3:00 Renaissance Mayflower Cabinet Room Part II of the Social Software Showcase. It’s tres cool that the Showcase is via a wiki. A group of library 2.0 users sat at different tables and discussed and demo-ed different software. It was hard to take it [...]
RUSA MAR–Chair’s Program Harnessing the Hive: Social Networks and Libraries Sunday, 6/24 10:30 am-12:00 pm Convention Center Room 144 A-C A standing room only crowd (300+) greeted what was definitely a hot topic (ubiquitous, too ). The meeting included the RUSA MARS business meeting, which was brief. The Rethinking Reference preconference was sold out, and [...]
LITA-IRC Meeting, Monday, June 25, 2007 10:30am -12pm Renaissance Hotel – Room 17 The focus of LITA’s International Relations Committee meeting was on the selection of the International Visitor Travel Grant candidate to the 2007 LITA Forum, arrangement for the grant recipient’s visit to the United States, report of the 2006 Travel Grant winner and [...]
The Kirtas/BookSurge/Amazon book digitization program is getting press! Book Standard Chronicle of Higher Education
This panel featured six speakers who are involved in a new project to digitize books and make them available both online and print-on-demand via Amazon. Two of the speakers, Lotfi Belkhir and Robin Asbury, work for the companies that are behind the project—Kirtas Technologies and BookSurge, respectively—and the other four speakers are with institutions that [...]
Hello LITAblog readers! I’m Julia Bauder, a student in the MLIS program at Wayne State and one of the LITA conference bloggers. I’ll be blogging three sessions this weekend. First up is The Ultimate Debate: Do Libraries Innovate?, featuring Andrew Pace of North Carolina State University as the moderator, Joseph Janes of the University of [...]