2013

Tell us what you envision for LITA

Were you unable to attend LITA’s Town Meeting at Midwinter 2013 in Seattle? We would still like to hear from you! Please take a few minutes to complete this survey and give the LITA leadership your thoughts on what works in LITA and what you’d like to see LITA become. Not a LITA member? No worries, we want to hear from you, too! Thank you from your friendly, neighborhood VP. 🙂

2013

Join us during the Town Meeting, from wherever you are

Hi, everyone! This year’s Town Meeting will be Monday, January 28, from 8:30 – 10:00 PDT, in room 302 of the Convention Center.  We will be streaming audio, and we welcome your participation via IRC and a Google Doc.  Here are the details: LITA’s Ustream channel Because of the wifi challenges, the Town Meeting is a bit broken up on the recordings. The recording is in three parts, but almost the entire thing is available. 🙂 The challenges of streaming and recording at conferences seemingly never end. Thanks for your patience and interest. Part the First Video streaming by Ustream Part the Next Video streaming by Ustream Part the Last Video streaming by Ustream Live video from your iPhone using Ustream IRC: #litatm (instructions below) Google Doc Please tag your tweets with #litatm Please note the chat will be logged for future reference and projected in the room for the…

2013

LITA Top Tech Trends – ALA Midwinter 2013

Below will be the live stream for the LITA Top Tech Trends panel at ALA Midwinter 2013 in Seattle, WA! We’ll be live at 10:30am Pacific Time, and after the show will embed the recording here as well. Enjoy! Topic: If Data resides in a Cloud environment, is it still mine? Panelists: Roy Tennant, Bess Sadler, Todd Carpenter, Carl Grant (moderator), John Law, Mackenzie Smith, Julie Speer Tweet questions to us with hashtag #alamwttt Part One, just a few minutes of recording before the wifi went crazy. Video streaming by Ustream We missed 8 or so minutes of conversation, then got it running again for Part Two. Video streaming by Ustream

2013

LITA Town Meeting at #alamw13 in Seattle

You can read all the gory details in this Connect thread, but if you’re going to ALA Midwinter in Seattle next week, please consider joining the LITA Board for this year’s Town meeting, where we will enjoy breakfast, and then work together to Re-imagine LITA. Monday, January 28, 8:30 – 10:00 a.m., TCC 302. Agenda (subject to change and tweaking) Breakfast 8:30 – just before 9 Introduction (membership & financial trends, Reimagining ALA) – Cindi (10 m) Appreciative Inquiry – all (10 m) Re-imagining LITA activity – all (30 m) Re-imagining reporting (10m) – group recorders Closing (summary, announcement of followup activities) (5 m) – Cindi Want to help? Volunteer by commenting on Connect. I hope to see you there, in person or online!  Details regarding how to participate virtually will be forthcoming.  

2013

LITA workshops at ALA Midwinter Meeting

LITA is offering two full-day workshops, to be held from 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. on Friday, January 25 at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle. Building Web Applications with HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript: An Introduction to HTML5; Washington State Convention Center, room TCC 204 Speaker: Jason Clark, Montana State University Geolocation, Native video, Offline storage, Semantic markup elements, Responsive web design, Canvas elements, Voice input, Drag and Drop, Opacity, Gradients… HTML5 has been released and is changing the way web developers work. With wide support in mobile browsers and the latest browser releases from Google and Firefox, HTML5 is poised to be the technology that will help build the next version of the Web. In this workshop, we’ll look at some of the possibilities, trends, and enhancements that HTML5, CSS3, and the new Javascript APIs enable. As a workshop deliverable, we’ll talk through the specifics of implementation and work…