Archive for the 'ALA 2005' Category

Institutional Repositories

August 11th, 2005 by Genny

(From LITA-L): The PowerPoint slides and resource list from the “Policies and Practices of Institutional Repositories” program at Annual 2005 are available on the Emerging Tech. Interest Group site.

Project Shibboleth: Issues and Answers

July 4th, 2005 by myork

In which I summarize the excellent program on Shibboleth from Saturday afternoon, June 25th, though it be a full week after the fact.

Updated posts

July 1st, 2005 by Genny

Added more notes and picture to Greenstone post.
Added lots more pictures to OCLC Bloggers post.
Didn’t blog the LITA awards reception earlier, so I’ll just post a photo from it here:

Apparently wherever there was free food, I was there with the camera

Who Do You Trust?

July 1st, 2005 by Elizabeth McKenty

6/25/2005
RUSA/MARS User Access to Services Committee
Do You Trust Your IT Staff? Do They Trust you?
Talk about a topic close to my heart! Though somehow, in thinking about it before the conference, in my mind it morphed into “Does Your It Staff Hate You?” In fact, around Wednesday, I had to talk to someone in IT [...]

ACRL President’s Program in a TiVo®-lutionary Age

June 30th, 2005 by Sharon Stillwagon

Frances Maloy, ACRL President, 2004-2005, opened the ACRL President’s Program on Monday, June 27, 2005 with a report on the year in review and a statement on the organization’s progress that brought cheers and applause. Frances set the stage for a terrific program saying, “After being President for a year, I have concluded that [...]

MODS, MARC, and Metadata Interoperability PART 2

June 30th, 2005 by Claire Stewart

Part 2 speakers: Ann Caldwell and Terry Reese

In this second half of a 4 hour (!!) program, the presenters included a fair amount of tools demo’ing.

MODS, MARC, and Metadata Interoperability PART 1

June 30th, 2005 by Claire Stewart

Part I: William Moen, Marty Kurth and Rebecca Guenther

This was an extremely dense but immensely useful session; PowerPoint presentations will be available online at the ALCTS site some time soon (as of June 28 they are not yet linked).

Tiny Trackers: Protecting Privacy in an RFID World

June 30th, 2005 by Laura Smart

Thankfully this RFID session was much warmer than the experts panel at the Hotel Intercontinental the previous day. Interestingly, I found it to be less well attended. About half of the seats in the ballroom were filled up. I suspect that the LITA top technology trends program drew a lot of potential [...]

LITA Councilor’s Report

June 30th, 2005 by K.G. Schneider

[Updates underscored] Council 3 wrapped up at 12:15 on June 29, very timely and very congenial. Over our three Council meetings we had several items on the agenda that are very LITA-relevant. I will try to provide links to documents if/when they go online. Special thanks to our charming parliamentarian, Eli Mina, who in [...]

Greenstone Digital Libraries II

June 29th, 2005 by Genny

Handouts and a photo too!