LITA BlogLITA’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 [...]
Monday, June 30th, 2008
Anaheim Convention Center
Sharon M. Shafer, Vice Chair, welcomed everyone to the 3rd meeting of the Next Generation Catalog Interest Group.
The program panelists included Karen G. Schneider, Equinox Software, Sara Davidson, University of California, Merced, and Amy Kautzman, University of California, Davis,
“Running a Free and Open Source Software ILS does Not Equate to [...]
The PLTIG business meeting focused on further developing our program idea for Annual 2009. The program looks at how various libraries and consortia have used technology to bring their summer reading programs “online”–from patron front-ends to backends for creating statistical and tracking reports. (How many repeat customers did your summer reading program have this year?) [...]
Please join us at the Electronic Resources Management Interest Group (ALCTS/LITA) meeting otherwise known as the “Friday Night Meeting”.
When: Friday, June 27th 6:30-8:00pm
Where: Anaheim Convention Center Room 203 A
Agenda:
1. IG Business (5 Minutes)
2. SUSHI- Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) Open Forum - Adam Chandler and friends. Adam will be presenting the results of [...]
The LITA Next Generation Catalog Interest Group will meet on Monday, June 30, 10:30 a.m. - Noon.
Anaheim Convention Center, 213 C
We will have presentations and discussion about two examples of recent next generation catalog endeavors.
Karen Schneider (Evangelist for Equinox’s Evergreen support) will share what she does as an Evangelist by giving some real world, grounded [...]
The House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property is holding a hearing on the proposed Orphan Works legislation tomorrow, March 13, at 10:00AM eastern. These hearings are usually both webcast live and archived on the committee site.
January 13, 2008 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
[Apologies for the delayed posting]
Introductions and Announcements
The meeting was called to order by Michelle Robertson – Chair. We went around the room and introduced ourselves. We had representatives from the University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Library System, Drexel University, Boise State University, the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, the University of Arkansas [...]
The Education Committee met on Sunday, January 13, 2008 with 12 members and guests present. This was the first meeting since the merger of the old Education Committee and the Regional Institutes Committee created the new Education Committee.
The By-Laws and Organization Committee sent Helen Gbala to the meeting to discuss the charge of the [...]
The IG meeting on Friday night attracted an impressive group of information professionals, with standing room available only. Zoe Stewart-Marshall, an ERMIG Chair and Clara Ruttenberg, an ERMIG Vice Chair started the meeting with Electronic Resources IG mission statement and goals
http://www.ala.org/ala/lita/litamembership/litaigs/erm/index.cfm
Zoe announced that Vice Chair position, responsible for organizing managed discussions, will [...]
The JPEG2000 in Archives and Libraries Interest Group met on Saturday afternoon. 11 people attended the meeting. In the information sharing part of the meeting, there was discussion of the benefits, drawbacks, and considerations of “visually lossless” versus “digitally lossless”. In particular, one of the attendees talked about how the Internet Archive [...]