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Carrie Lowe gave an overview of OITPs charge and what’s going on, on the policy froint in Washington.
About OITP
Things not talking about (pretty quiet on these fronts at the moment?)

Digitization project
CALEA
Telecommunications Act
E-government

Talked about

Research report
New project: Connectivity study
New project: State library E-rate training

Research Report: Public Libraries and the Internet 2006

Key findings
Public library connectivity is a valuable [...]

Tim Daniels and Doug Goans from Georgia State University presented this talk.
I had never heard the term ‘cyberinfrastructure’ before this presentation, and am still not sure I entirely grasp the basics. But here’s what I picked up:
Cyberinfrastructure is really a mindset or an overall vision at an institution. It takes a more global [...]

Ed Salazar, Web/Reference Librarian at Northcentral University in Prescott Arizona, covered some concerns which led to implementation of how they do it at NCU. Some of the reasons are few (3) librarians and a burgeoning student population, making face-to-face instruction a challenge.
Easy to understand guides, and quizzes to test and/or explain concepts, are [...]

Vendor Endeca is at Forum this year in case you’re thinking about doing the same thing to your OPAC that Emily Lynema and Andrew Pace described in this presentation.
Andrew Pace, head of IT at the North Carolina State University libraries, explained that Endeca enabled them to implement faceted search on their catalog.
The context:
Roy Tennant’s [...]

If you are interested in learning about LITABlog or blogs in general, or have a blog and want to find other wackos like you, or would just like to know what the heck these blog things are: the LITA Forum Blogger Soiree is for you!
What: 2006 LITAForum Blogger Soiree
Where: The Flying Saucer, downtown Nashville
When: we [...]

Day 2 of the pre-conference was presented by Amy Begg De Groff and Luis Salazar of Howard Country Library (Md.). Amy and her IT staff of six (which includes Luis) have successfully switched their 279 public computers over to the “Groovix” operating system (www.groovix.com). Groovix is based on Ubuntu, one of the most popular Linux [...]

Do library’s need to blog?
If you’ve thought of blogging your library, don’t dismiss blogging but don’t rush to embrace it, either. If your reasons are: administration says I should, everybody else is doing it or we’ve got to stay up with technology, think again. If, on the other hand, you see it as a tool [...]

Day 1 was presented by Gary Wan of the TAMU libraries. He showed about 20 of us how to install and configure the following library-relevant open-source products: Koha, Greenstone, Swish-e, and Wordpress.
First, he explained open-source and the LAMP platform. LAMP is the software bundle commonly used for OSS products. LAMP stands for: Linux (the operating [...]

The room is full for this session by Hongbin Liu from Yale and Win Shih from University of Colorado — despite the number of other really interesting-sounding sessions in this time slot!
Hongbin had done a web site redesign project for both the public and internal sites at his previous job in New Orleans. The [...]

Thom Gillespie directs the Mime program at Indiana University. He told the story of how it started: When he was teaching in the school of library and information studies, he was interested in games and media: “I wasn’t sure where I was going, but I was pretty sure it wasn’t where the [...]