Are these videos hosted anywhere or is the Ustream I’m seeing error a temporary thing?

Thanks!

Noel

Wang and Dawes’ “The Next Generation Integrated Library System: A Promise Fulfilled” is an interesting article, but I think it omits some other serious contenders in “next generation ILS” — both OCLC’s WMS and Serial Solutions Inota are being marketted, and (as far as we can tell) designed in quite similar ways as Ex Libris’s ALMA with regard to including electronic resources in integrated workflows.

Options are certainly good. It’s noteworthy that the community-driven Kuali OLE is the only one of these products that will be runnable on a library’s own servers (as opposed to being proprietary closed-source software running as a service on a commercial company’s servers), but it’s also unclear how big the market is for software you run yourself. There are undeniable advantages to software that runs as a service (both not having to run it yourself, and certain ‘network effects’ of design, which Alma, WMS, and Innota all mean to take advantage of) — it would certainly be nice if you could have these without locking yourself into a closed-source black-box proprietary solution… but that option does not seem to be on the table.

I am not an expert in data repositories, but have gained some experience with metadata editing through my work with the Open Journal Systems script. I am co-Editor-in-Chief of an academic journal (Journal of Molecular Biochemistry; http://www.jmolbiochem.com) and also take care of all technical problems associated with the website, metadata editing and database submission of this journal.

Generally, apart from my scientific work, I am interested in working with metadata and data repositories. I think I would be able to help. Could you please let me know what lita editors are required to do?

Best regards,
Spyridon Champeris Tsaniras

Sounds more like ‘happy hours’ to me

If you do not live in Pacific Time (or have your calendar(s) displaying in other than Pacific Time) the starting times may appear wrong – they are not (assuming your calendar can transpose time zones correctly)

Is there an RSS feed for latest ITAL articles published? i’d like to include such a feed in my aggregator, so as articles are published they show up in my feed. (It’s just fine if they show up in batches all at once as a new issue is published).

Will my limited skills hinder my participation?
Yours,
Margo Smith
“Legacy” Librarian

Short answers: Certainly. Sometimes. Crowd-sourcing is part of the information-gathering process, and weighing crowd-sourced information is part of an individual’s critical-thinking process. It is easy to argue that appealing to the broadest market di…

1. You state “the ALA Policy Manual (7.4.4 and 7.4.5) currently stipulates that conference meetings declared to be open are open only to registered attendees, which complicates the popular interpretation of the Open Meeting Policy with regards to streaming technology.” Last year, I chaired LITA’s E-Participation Taskforce. We were tasked with figuring out how to share physical open meetings/conference sessions with virtual participants. Everything the taskforce recommended were open tools (like livestreaming). And the LITA Board formally accepted our findings in a board meeting.

So my question – did the LITA board go against ALA policy by recommending our findings? Or – how is one open meeting (ie., LITA Board) different from another open meeting (committee meeting)?

2. Why did Melissa post this response for you? Other board members post under their own name.

Thanks again for the responses!

If you do not live in Pacific Time (or have your calendar(s) displaying in other than Pacific Time) the starting times may appear wrong – they are not (assuming your calendar can transpose time zones correctly)

Just a couple years ago, Tennant was one of the authors of OCLC’s extremely restrictive record re-use policy, a policy that went totally against the principles of open data and open code. The policy was designed to protect the profits of a single corporation and served to greatly restrict data sharing among libraries. The policy that Tennant help write and promote was as anti-cloud as you can get.

Fortunately, OCLC and Tennant caved to the pressure that the ridiculous policy generated. That he is now talking up the virtues of cloud computing is beyone comprehension and demonstrates the height of hyprocrisy.

Also the program tweets were archived here in case anyone would like to check it out: http://twapperkeeper.com/hashtag/emergetech?sm=6&sd=2&sy=&em=6&ed=31&ey=&o=&l=500&from_user=&text=