LITA BlogLITA’s Happy Hour at 6 Arms on 300 E. Pike Friday night was great! About 35 members showed up to network and discuss LITA activities and meetings here in Seattle. The brew pub is a cozy place with a wide selection of frothy, bubbly and hot stuff. And the place was hopping!
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Saturday 10:30-12:30: ALCTS/ Electronic Resources Interest Group
[NOTE: I'd promised to blog this session for the new ALCTS NRMIG Metadata Blog, but since one person at ALCTS must approve all potential bloggers and has no sense of urgency about it, I'm posting it on the LITA Blog. Maybe ALCTS will get their act together for [...]
Welcome & Comments
Legislative/Regulatory Update
* Outcomes of 109th Congress
— “Not too much” harm done?
* “Predictions” for 110th Congress
— Universal Service reform (E-Rate)
— Network Neutrality
— Spectrum Allocation/Ownership
— DOPA (again)
* State Issues
— S-DOPA (State-level DOPA look-alikes)
— Idaho is already facing an S-DOPA
*Other news
— E-Rate is 10 years old this February
Internet2 - Presentation from Lou Fox
* Defined I2
* K20
* [...]
This was a loooooong meeting with a lot of content. I tried to condense it has much as I could. There are three main sections to the meeting and I have bolded them for easier skimming.
Present at the meeting: Bonnie Postlethwaite, Mary Taylor, Mark Beatty, Jonathan Rothman, Andrew Pace, Karen Starr, Barbara Higginbotham, David Bretthauer, [...]
My name is Steve Butzel, and I am head of the reference department at the Nashua Public Library in Nashua, NH. I am also the coordinator of the “From the Reference Desk” blog at our library.
Some of the sessions I’ve attended so far include:
“Podcast U” pre-conference
LITA Technology for Public Libraries interest group
LIRT discussion about services [...]
Sunday: 8 - 10 a.m.
Our first event/meeting was a big success with almost 30 participants. Thanks to everyone who attended.
Paul Keith and Irmgarde Brown (co-chairs) welcomed everyone, gave a brief introduction to our new interest group and encouraged public librarians to join LITA.
Our Discussion Topic
Our guest speaker was Brian Auger from Howard County Public Library [...]
Introductions
*Mary Taylor introduced our new staff liaison, Melissa Prentice
* David Altenhof, Kyle Felker, Howard Sherman, Aaron Dobbs, Janet Arth, Nick Baker, Melissa Prentice, Sue Peacock, Bonnie Postlethwaite
IG & Comm Chair meeting discussion — David Altenhof & Aaron Dobbs
* Recognise duplication & triplication of effort in reporting (an archival copy, blog, and wiki)
— Archival copy (must [...]
Would we want to put on a face to face web 2.0 thing? Give people hands on experience with stuff? Could be a good chance to get techie and non-techie people together. Facilities might be available if we can come up with a plan for events and such in the next 60-90 days.
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Michelle Boule, U [...]
Introductions
Bylaws and Organization - Margaret Kelly)
Program Planning Committee - Rachel Cheng
* PPC Liaison list handout (file will be linked when I get a copy)
* PPC will make new guidelines for IG chairs with minimum program information and drop-dead deadline
* PPC will refer other Divisional requests to IG chairs for co-sponsorship comments
IG Communication - Email Lists, [...]
Mary Taylor
Happy Hour was a success yesterday with new members, old members, and people checking us out. At Annual, Happy Hour will be after the open house on Friday or Saturday. She introduces Mary Prentice who is the new Programs and Marketing Specialist for LITA.
Bonnie Postlethwaite
Use the wiki. There are spaces for the committee’s to [...]