LITA BlogLITA is offering three full-day preconferences, to be held from 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. on Friday, June 22 at the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim. Web Content Strategy for Libraries Speakers: Nina McHale, Arapahoe Library District, Colo.; Chris Evjy, Jefferson County Public Library, Colo. Your library’s new website is powered by a high-octane content management system [...]
New vacancy listings are posted weekly on Wednesday at approximately 11:00 a.m. Central Time. They appear under New This Week and under the appropriate regional listing. Postings remain on the LITA Job Site for a minimum of four weeks. New This Week Coordinator of Library Technology, McConnell Library, Radford University, VA Metadata and Emerging Technologies [...]
John F. Helmer, executive director of the Orbis Cascade Alliance, has been named the 2012 winner of the Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award. Helmer will receive a cash award and citation at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 24, 2012, at the LITA Award Ceremony, during the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim. Named in honor of [...]
LITA is pleased to announce G Sayeed Choudhury as the 2012 winner of the Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology. The award, which is jointly sponsored by OCLC, is given for research relevant to the development of information technologies, especially work which shows promise of having a positive and substantive [...]
Clifford Lynch has been named the winner of the 2012 LITA/Library Hi Tech award for Outstanding Communication in Library and Information Technology, cosponsored by Emerald Group Publishing Limited. The award recognizes outstanding persons or institutions for their long-term contributions in the area of Library and Information Science technology and its application. It consists of $1,000 [...]
New vacancy listings are posted weekly on Wednesday at approximately 11:00 a.m. Central Time. They appear under New This Week and under the appropriate regional listing. Postings remain on the LITA Job Site for a minimum of four weeks. New This Week CARL ILS Software Sales Executive, CARL Corporation, Denver, CO Director of Library Information [...]
The online polls opened on Monday, March 19; the polls will close on Friday, April 27. For a preview of the LITA slate, all LITA candidates’ ballot information is available on the 2012 LITA Election page. Please thank the Nominating Committee for going the extra mile to provide LITA members with a full slate when [...]
LITA has a variety of volunteer opportunities available for its members through LITA Committees and liaisons. Committee members have the opportunity to: Gain valuable leadership experience while helping to shape the future of LITA, Honor outstanding colleagues for their contributions as part of an achievement award committee, Encourage the development of future library leaders by [...]
The LITA Executive Committee spring meeting, held Monday, March 19, 2012 from 1:00 to 5:00 and Tuesday, March 20 from 1:00 to 4:00 CDT, was intended to be an online meeting, open to the public. Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties with web conferencing software, the meeting is instead being conducted as a conference call. We [...]
New vacancy listings are posted weekly on Wednesday at approximately 11:00 a.m. Central Time. They appear under New This Week and under the appropriate regional listing. Postings remain on the LITA Job Site for a minimum of four weeks. New This Week Reference/Emerging Technologies Librarian, Nevada State College, Henderson, NV Visit the LITA Job [...]