2006

LITA Committee Chairs meeting, MCC 235-236

Scott Muir, Committee Chairs Coordinator, distributed certificates of appreciation for outgoing committee chairs and members. LITA committee chairs orientation tip sheet is now online: http://www.lita.org/ala/lita/litamembership/litacommittees/tipsheet.htm (embedded URLs) http://www.lita.org/ala/lita/litamembership/litacommittees/tipsheetdoc.htm (printable w/ URLs displayed) Q&A * New members should have all been appointed by this point. Valerie Edmonds has distributed new membership rosters. Contact her if you need one. * We should encourage new chairs to attend committee chair meetings on Saturday mornings. One question is whether it’s possible to have new chairs added to the comchair list before Annual? Someone (Scott?) will investigate. * In his new role as incoming Vice-President, Mark Beatty is now responsible for appointing new committee members (totaling about 200 people). Mark asks that we think about our current committee rosters, who’s new to LITA, who’s new to conferences, etc. for potential appointments. * Mark Beatty is putting together a committee to appoint committee members. Watch for…

2006

OITP Advisory Committee Meeting

OITP Advisory Committee Meeting(s) Hilton Garden Inn French Quarter Downtown Walk from Convention Center, not on Bus route 4 Friday June 23 Contents: OITP Macro Issues OITP Finances OITP Pressures/Observed Trends Other discussions *Possible net neutrality resolution *Copyright *Strategic Planning For details see: Annual 06 – OITP Advisory Committee Meeting –Aaron :-)’ (again, apologies if this is a faux pas)

2006

Incoming ALA Committee Chair Orientation

Incoming ALA Committee Chair Orientation Hilton N. O. Riverside — Napoleon BR Thursday 6/22/06 Put on by ALA OTLD with a very nice buffet. Not very many new ALA committee chairs were able to make it, which is too bad as the food was good and the ideas shared were good (some common sense, others insightful). The ALA Parliamentarian, Eli Mena, presented tips on meeting process and conflict avoidance/deflection/resolution. A lot of common sense, all really good to remember, and great soundbytes – including: “Committee work should be like a canoe…” For details see: Annual 06 – Incoming ALA Committee Chair Orientation Not sure about the potential faux pas I’m possibly committing (self-link love); but double posting the content seems silly.

2006

BIGWIG reminder

via kgs, posted by Jason since litablog was experiencing difficulty when she tried to post it earlier: Once again, BIGWIG meets: Sunday, 10:30 – 12:00, at the Morial Convention Center, Room 274 That’s the blogging room; if you’re in there for some other reason, be careful-we might volunteer you for something! We have at least four agenda items. I would put these on the blog but… and this is related to an agenda item…the blog is down right now, at least from my end. Blake Carver had IM’d me earlier today to say he was having trouble with lishost.org … * We were asked to consider a program for 2007-this was for ALA but we should add LITA Forum to this list * Hosting and the LITA blog * Laura Cohen shared some concerns about the blog publishing policy, which I offered to present to the group since she is…

2006

Coming to you live from MCC 274!

Well, we’ve got a bloggers’ room at Annual Conference! It has separate tables and chairs that I’m sure we’ll end up pushing together when more than one person shows up. And it has power cords. All is right with the world. I’ve only done one “conference” thing so far, but I want to share my excitement about it. Right before every Annual Conference, there is a Spectrum Scholars’ Leadership Institute. I was fortunate enough to be involved in planning it a couple of years ago, so I was glad to participate in their Professional Options Fair last evening. I got to represent LITA as well as discuss academic librarianship, with the eager, new Spectrum Scholarship recipients. Talking with them excited me anew about the thrilling world of librarianship we are moving into. Several of the scholars are interested in LITA and hope to be able to make it to the…

2006

Welcome to the LITA Blog Room (MCC 274)

Ran into the MCC staff who set up the room this morning on arrival. Nice pair of competent geeks, I approve. I’ve been mentioning the existence of the room to folks at programs and meetings already, watchout, we may see some Martians (RUSA–MARS) and NMRT folks or maybe more, since Michelle said she was Word-of-Mouthing the room as well. Anywho, drop a note when you get here – or leave a question, Enquiring minds want to know! –Aaron :-)’

2006

My Trends… I know I put them somewhere

I did a rather belated, cryptic post on my personal blog, Free Range Librarian, but though it refers to something Eric brought up–a certain welcome restlessness with the state of “library automation,” to use an icky phrase, or an acknowledgement that the OPAC sucks, to be more direct–it doesn’t quite snap to the grid of what I’m trying to get across. I’d quote from Buffalo Springfield–“Something’s happening here/What it is ain’t exactly clear”–except whenever I get to the part where “there’s a man with a gun over there,” my practical librarian mind kicks in and begins worrying about guns in libraries, evacuating the premises, ducking for cover, etc. So let me force myself to disgorge a few more random blips that might begin to frame some of my discussion this Sunday. * An intentionally naive observation: the Web continues to increase in importance for people’s lives. (Alternatively, I think I…

2006

Sarah Houghton's Top Technology Trends

I won’t be at ALA, but I’ll note three trends I see in full force: Returning Power Over Content to Those with the Knowledge Eric Lease Morgan touched on this in his second trend about blogs and wiki websites becoming the norm rather than the exception. My twist is this: people who have the knowledge will once again be in control of the content. Until recently, most websites (library and otherwise) have fallen victim to the camel through the eye of a needle problem: only the webmasters can post the content, and sometimes such insufficient and incoherent content is given to them, that they end up creating much of the content themselves. Library staff, largely librarians, are responsible for the collections, programming, and services in our libraries–the content. The same should be true with websites. With WYSIWYG interfaces with blogs and wikis, those knowledgeable people can once again be in…

2006

ETIG Program in the Big Easy: Audio Book 3.0 – The convergence of the mobile media lifestyle platform

This program will be held on Monday, June 26 from 8:00AM – 11AM in Rooms 340-341 at the (MCC) Morial Convention Center. ————————————————————————————————— Please Forward to anyone you know will be attending and would have an interest in this program!!! ————————————————————————————————— Please join the LITA Emerging Technology Interest Group for a product presentations, a panel discussion and an interactive question and answer session. The session title. Audio Book 3.0 – The convergence of the mobile media lifestyle platform. ( Please note this title on the program differs slightly, being named Ebook 3.0… While there will be a number of issues raised in the session regarding the way audio books and ebooks are also converging my original focus on ebooks 3.0 appears to be “bleeding edge” at this point and not just yet fully emerging. After extensive discussions with Sony, Apple, iRex and many others the newest push for eInk based…

2006

LITA Program – The Ultimate Debate: Who Controls the Future of Search?

Date: Saturday, June 24 Time: 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. Place: Morial Convention Center 388-390 Be it resolved that the future of search will occur without library influence. Will libraries continue their vital role in the evolution of search, or will we be left in the dust by Google and their ilk? You won’t want to miss this provocative debate on the future of library influence on search technology. Come and be a part of this Ultimate Debate, sponsored by the LITA Internet Resources Interest Group. Moderator: Roy Tennant. The debaters: Stephen Abram and Joe Janes. The debate will be guided by several questions, including: Will search services offered by large commercial companies such as Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! replace the need for libraries? Should libraries cooperate with commercial companies by giving them our metadata and/or content (Open WorldCat, Google Scholar, Google Book Search, etc.)? What qualities would Google Scholar, Microsoft…