LITA BlogFrom October 26 -29, 2006, a fairly large group of librarians and information technology professionals from various institutions across the United States descended upon Nashville Tennessee to attend the LITA Forum. The 2006 Forum had as its theme ‘Web Services as Library Services. I was fortunate to be there as I had been selected by [...]
Sadly, I only had an hour between meetings, so I didn’t get to every poster session, but here at last are the notes I do have. A PDF of the session descriptions is available on the LITA web site. There was a good range of topics and library types represented. Instructional Media and Library Online [...]
Alternate (possibly better) title: Participatory Networks: The Library as Conversation (oh wait, I already used the alternate title for a post) Continuing on with the program from Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) Update: Part 1… (a teaser for this part of the session was as previously blogged on LITAblog, btw) Participatory Networks: The Library [...]
Jason Griffey of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga presented a brief, bright and breezy look at the basics of wikis and their use in libraries to an attentive group of about 60 attendees at the end of day two of the 2006 LITA National Forum. The basic appeal of the wiki is that it [...]
On the final day of the 2006 LITA National Forum, Helene Gold, electronic services librarian at Eckerd College (St. Petersburg, Florida) described how thin clients are being integrated into the computing environment in the college’s new library. The 25 people who braved Forum-fatigue to attend were not disappointed by Helene’s engaging and accessible presentation. When [...]
Debra A. Riley-Huff, Web Services Librarian, University of Mississippi The biggest cost for web-delivered library instruction is staff time. The software is cheap or free. Being able to use modules in different contexts (interoperability) or re-use structural pieces with new content (modularity) saves time and, therefore, money. One of the things to know at the [...]
Rachel Kirk, Middle Tennessee State University Steve Bales, University of Tennessee The Pew Center Internet and American Life Project published a report in 2001 called “Getting Serious Online†that drew a conclusion that as Internet Users become more experienced, they engage in more serious pursuits on-line, moving from games to banking, for example. As a [...]
Hongbin Liu, Web Services Librarian at Yale University Win Shih, Head of Systems and Databases at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center. As spokesperson for this session, Hongbin covered the background of Web 2.0 technologies such as AJAX, tagging, blogs and RSS, and demonstrated how library websites can meet the needs [...]
Stephen Abram, VP of Innovation at SirsiDynix, closed out the 2006 LITA Forum on Sunday morning. One of his first statistics was that libraries collectively ship and circulate more than Amazon.com every day. But we’re not like Amazon in a lot of other ways. We’ve decided we should be making decisions for our patrons, instead [...]
Robert H. McDonald and Shane Nackerud summarized two different aspects of low threshold digital publishing. Robert covered Florida State University’s program of various institutional repository tools, and Shane outlined the University of Minnesota’s UThink blogging platform. One of the big advantages of an institutional repository program to FSU was that it gave them something to [...]