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Truly, I vote this the presentation most likely to make libraries say, “Hey, I think I will outsource my scanning to Clemson University”. Loving care is evident in the selection, installation, and use of their equipment.
Put on by the Digital Library Technology Interest Group
This year, the LITA Program Planning Committee, in an effort to modernize the workflow for planning programs for ALA Annual, has moved the process entirely online! The following is the form that you can fill out if you are interested in proposing a program via LITA for ALA Annual 2010, June 24-30th in Washington, DC:
http://tinyurl.com/LITAPrograms2010
The [...]
DATE: 1/24/2009
GROUP: Assessment and Research Committee
CHAIRS: Diane Bisom, Bonnie Postlethwaite
REPORTER: Bonnie Postlethwaite
CONFERENCE: Midwinter
MEETING: Committee meeting
ATTENDEES: 12
CURRENT ACTIVITIES: Discussion Items & Actions:
Approved minutes from prior meeting.
Mary Taylor presented data files on LITA membership (available on Committee’s Google docs site). Available data points cover various parameters, such as membership in other divisions; number of programs; etc. Data [...]
LITA has volunteered to assist in the implementation of the Electronic Participation Task Force report in any way that is deemed appropriate. Mary Ghikas, ALA Senior Associate Executive Director, has posed the question, if ALA provides Internet connectivity in hotels as well as the convention center for Annual Conferences and Midwinters, what can we do [...]
DATE: 1/25/2009
GROUP: Technology and Access Committee
CHAIR: David Nutty
REPORTER: David Nutty
CONFERENCE: Midwinter
MEETING: Committee meeting
ATTENDEES: 9
CURRENT ACTIVITIES: Planning for a program at ALA Annual Chicago has been the main focus of the committee prior to and at the Midwinter Meeting in Denver. The committee has focused the topic to Net Neutrality. The committee has tentative commitments (later [...]
DATE: 1/24/2009
GROUP: Education Committee
CHAIRS: David Ward, Mandy Havert
REPORTER: David Ward
CONFERENCE: Midwinter
ATTENDEES: 12
CURRENT ACTIVITIES: LITA Education combined with Regional Institutes in the past year. We spent from Annual 08 – Midwinter 09 reviewing our charge and creating organizational documents to track and help guide the newly combined committee’s role.
Part of this involved assigning committee members as [...]
DATE: 1/23/2009
GROUP: LITA/Brett Butler Entrepreneurship Award
CHAIR: Martin Halbert
REPORTER: Martin Halbert
CONFERENCE: Midwinter
ATTENDEES: 5
CURRENT ACTIVITIES: The LITA Brett Butler Award Committee met on Saturday, January 24, 2009, at 1:30 PM in the Colorado Convention Center room 712. Several members were absent because of budget cuts in travel at their institutions. Attending were: Nancy Colyar (Past Chair), Martin [...]
I’m posting an abbreviated report here because, from the look of it, the committee report form (which should show up on LITA-L) automagically combines all those carefully-prepared paragraphs into one big ugly paragraph. Ah, the wonders of automation…
Anyway: We had five people at the single 2009 ALA Midwinter Meeting session–two committee members (Judy Jeng and [...]
DATE: 1/25/2009
GROUP: Web Coordinating Committee
CHAIR: Jean Rainwater
REPORTER: Jean Rainwater
CONFERENCE: Midwinter
MEETING: Committee meeting
ATTENDEES: 8
CURRENT ACTIVITIES:
At the Midwinter meeting the WCC discussed the need for clarification and coordination of web communication. Meeting reports and minutes are frequently posted to a combination of LITA website, wiki, and blog. The WCC recommends that the LITA wiki be [...]
LITA’s Education Committee welcomed all incoming committee members. The main topic of discussion was the planning of a web based course. Results of a recent educational needs survey were also discussed. The areas identified in the survey as topics of interest include: Open Source Software for Libraries; Metadata Structure and Translation/Crosswalk; Integrating [...]