Archive for the 'ALA Midwinter 2007' Category

Lita Town Meeting 2007 Report

June 17th, 2007 by mbeatty

Lita Town Meeting 2007 Report:
Including Results from the Group Snow Card Activity.
Big huge thanks to Michelle Boule for compiling the large stack of papers and cards into something that resembled an organized mass.
LITA Town Meeting
What does success look like for LITA and it’s members? Mark Beatty, LITA Vice President, gave a quick environmental scan. [...]

Open Source Systems IG meeting – ALA Midwinter

March 25th, 2007 by cstrauber

Open Source Systems Interest Group meeting
Sunday, January 21, 2007, 4-6pm
The group reviewed the list of programs planned for Annual in DC
Evergreen, the Georgia PINES consortium’s open ILS program
Automating metadata creation with open source software. Patrick Yott from Brown.
The next-generation public library website with Drupal. John Blyberg from the Ann Arbor District Library.
Sakai collaboration and learning [...]

Town Hall commentary from Mark Beatty and Michelle Boule

February 2nd, 2007 by Maurice York

Listen to Vice President of LITA Mark Beatty and LITA Emerging Leader Michelle Boule give a post-Town Hall breakdown of what happened during the meeting, why LITA members Have More Fun, and what we can look forward to in the coming year. This is the last of our current crop of podcasts from ALA Midwinter [...]

 
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Greetings from the LITA Vice-President

February 1st, 2007 by jgriffey

In the second of our vodcasts, here’s Mark Beatty (current Vice-President and President-Elect of LITA) talking about the LITA Town Meeting and what you can do to help guide LITA this year. Again, apologies for the low audio quality…
Here’s Mark!

 
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Top Tech Trends (Good Parts version)

January 31st, 2007 by cstrauber

You should really listen to the podcasts. There are things I won’t be able to do in words. Like give you the experience of Karen Schneider singing her recruiting song. Or summarize Clifford Lynch (can anyone do that?).
So, for the time-pressed, here is a summary of the Top Tech Trends discussion at ALA Midwinter, in [...]

Greetings from the LITA President

January 31st, 2007 by jgriffey

I managed to corner both current LITA president Bonnie Postlewaite and Vice-President and President-Elect Mark Beatty at ALA Midwinter 2007 and get some brief video of them. We at LITABlog realize that not everyone attends conferences, and so might not recognize Bonnie or Mark. Hopefully these next couple of videos will put a face with [...]

 
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Top Tech Trends Part 7 – Questions and Answers

January 30th, 2007 by jgriffey

The last of the 2007 Top Tech Trends podcasts. Again, thanks to Maurice York for all the recording!

 
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Top Tech Trends Part 6 – General Discussion

January 29th, 2007 by jgriffey

The free-for-all portion of the TTT show. Enjoy…one more part to go!

 
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Lots of ideas at the LITA Emerging Technologies IG

January 26th, 2007 by Steve McCann

When: Monday Jan. 22, 2007
The scene: Around 60-70 people attended this IG on the final day of the ‘07 Midwinter conference. It was standing room only, which of course meant that several sat on the floor. The discussion was wide-ranging, with Joe Ford, of Joseph Ford & Associates, presiding as incoming chair.
The primary role of [...]

Tech Trends 2007

January 26th, 2007 by acohen

Tech Trends, Midwinter 2007
One area that was greatly discussed during the two hour exchange was the ILS. Trendsters discussed open source, convergence of vendors and the fact that these are no longer boot strapped companies but ones that private investors think have value.
The top technology trend that are and will continue to have a great [...]