http://litablog.org Library and Information Technology Association Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:00:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Online registration is still available for the LITA National Forum, October 16 - 19, 2008 at the Hilton Netherland Plaza Hotel, Cincinnati, OH. http://www.lita.org/forum2008 Keynote sessions will feature Tim Spalding, founder and developer of LibraryThing.com, Michael Porter of WebJunction (be sure to check out http://libraryman.com/blog/ for details on his presentation), and ... http://litablog.org/2008/09/26/dont-miss-out-on-the-lita-national-forum/ The LITA National Forum will be held October 16 - 19, 2008 in Cincinnati, Ohio. The LITA Blog will, of course, be there to report on the happenings — sharing as much of the fun and learning as possible with those who cannot attend this year. But, as always, we need ... http://litablog.org/2008/09/18/official-call-for-volunteer-bloggers-at-forum-2008/ Nominations are invited for the 2009 Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology, sponsored by OCLC, Inc. and the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA). The deadline for nominations is December 31, 2008. The Kilgour Research Award recognizes ... http://litablog.org/2008/09/17/nominations-sought-for-prestigious-kilgour-research-award/ Online registration will be available until September 30; if you have already registered, consider adding a preconference to your existing registration by faxing the printable form to the LITA Office. The 2008 LITA National Forum will be held October 16 - 19, 2008 at the Hilton Netherland Plaza Hotel, Cincinnati, OH. In ... http://litablog.org/2008/09/17/still-time-to-register-for-the-national-forum/ Nominations are being accepted for the 2009 LITA/Library Hi Tech Award, which is given each year to an individual or institution for outstanding achievement in communication for continuing education in library and information technology. Sponsored by the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library ... http://litablog.org/2008/09/17/nominations-open-for-the-2009-litalibrary-hi-tech-award/ Cindy Hepfer, ALA Voting Representative to NISO, reports to us that there is an ongoing systematic review of the published standard, ISO 19005-1, Document management: Electronic document file format for long-term preservation--Part 1: Use of PDF 1.4 (PDF/A-1). She points out that the intent for ISO 19005 was to ... http://litablog.org/2008/09/03/electronic-document-file-format-for-long-term-preservation-part-1-use-of-pdf-14/ Here is another interesting item in the current wave of important standards activities emanating from ISO, of potential interest to LITA members. According to the announcement that voting members received, "This Technical Report describes means by which it may be demonstrated, at any time, that the contents of a ... http://litablog.org/2008/09/02/isopdtr-15801-information-stored-electronically-recommendations-for-trustworthiness/ Ms. Annette Smith from Barbados, West Indies, was the winner of the 2007 LITA-IRC Travel Grant to the 2007 LITA Forum. Ms. Smith is the Director of the National Library Service, Bridgetown, Barbados, WI. In her candidate's report, she gives her impressions of the 2007 LITA Forum in ... http://litablog.org/2008/08/29/annette-smith-2007-lita-forum-travel-grant-winner/ A systematic review ballot of the published standard, ISO 11940, Information and documentation - Transliteration of Thai has been announced by NISO. “Since there are fewer Roman characters than Thai characters, diacritical marks, punctuation marks, and a combination of two Roman characters, or a digraph, are needed to represent one ... http://litablog.org/2008/08/28/for-specialists-thai-transliteration/ According to the announcement forwarded by Cindy Hepfer, ALA Voting Representative to NISO, "This International Standard specifies a basic set of commands for the interactive search of retrieval systems data and the types of response expected from the processing System. lt is intended for use by designers and users of ... http://litablog.org/2008/08/28/iso-87771993-commands-for-interactive-text-searching/ NISO has received a ballot for a new ISO TC46 work item/project, and Cindy Hepfer, ALA Voting representative to NISO, would like some feedback from ALA members. The project in question is ISO TC46/SC11 New work item proposal: Digital records conversion and migration process. This is an excellent opportunity ... http://litablog.org/2008/08/28/conversion-and-migration-of-digital-records-new-iso-work-item/ Note that this item has a very short time window for comments--Sept. 24, 2008. Cindy Hepfer, ALA Voting representative to NISO, reports to us on a proposed new work item for a standard on Electronic archiving -- Specifications concerning the design and the operation of an information system for electronic records ... http://litablog.org/2008/08/28/information-system-for-electronic-records-preservation%e2%80%94another-new-iso-work-item/ One of the challenges of our current environment is that there are still activities (and standards) associated with our traditional role in managing physical resources, in addition to those associated with our newer, sexier digital activities. The standard addressed in this post, ISO 11800, Book binding materials and methods, ... http://litablog.org/2008/08/27/library-binding-standards-review/ My previous Standards Watch posting was for a standard of somewhat limited interest, but this next one is far more generally applicable to our work. It would be great to see some review of this standard by ALA members (particularly LITA members) with some interest in this area. ... http://litablog.org/2008/08/27/iso-117992003-document-storage-requirements-for-archive-and-library-materials/ Cindy Hepfer, ALA Voting representative to NISO has notified us that there is a systematic review ballot of ISO 233-2:1993, Arabic simplified transliteration, going on at this time. The formal name of the published standard is ISO 233-2:1993, Information and documentation - Transliteration of Arabic characters into Latin characters - Part ... http://litablog.org/2008/08/27/arabic-language-experts-please-notea/ Michael Porter has posted the music video and story "behind the music" of Hi-Fi Sci-Fi Library on his blog, Libraryman. Porter will be presenting his keynote session of the same name at the 2008 LITA National Forum in Cincinnati, October 16-19. There is still time to register for the Forum; ... http://litablog.org/2008/08/26/hi-fi-sci-fi-library-at-the-lita-national-forum/ The Heads of Technology Interest Group began with introductions. Each participant told about a major project or issue that they were currently dealing with at their institutions. Most were from academic institutions. Projects and or issues ranged from how to write a RFP to Technology ... http://litablog.org/2008/08/05/heads-of-librarytechnology-holt-interest-group-june-29th-2008/ LITA’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; ... http://litablog.org/2008/07/22/education-commitee-june-28-2008/ More standards news from Cindy Hepfer, ALA Representative to NISO (HSLcindy@buffalo.edu): A systematic review ballot of the published standard, ISO 2108:2005, Information and documentation -- International Standard Book Number (ISBN), has been presented to TC46 Ballot Advisory Group. This is an opportunity for ALA to provide feedback on the ... http://litablog.org/2008/07/18/isbn-systematic-review/ Some new standards news is available from Cindy Hepfer, ALA Voting Representative to NISO. She reports that the 'Digital Talking Book Standard Revision Project Approval' ballot is now available, to approve the initiation of a revision of ANSI/NISO Z39.86, Specifications for the Digital Talking Book. The revision proposal submitted by ... http://litablog.org/2008/07/18/new-ballot-digital-talking-book-standard-revision-project-approval/ Did you attend a LITA program at the 2008 ALA Annual Conference? If so, please take a few moments to tell us what you thought of LITA's programming by completing an evaluation; your honest, candid answers will assist us in providing quality programs in the future. Click on the link ... http://litablog.org/2008/07/18/ala-annual-feedback-help-lita-help-you/ SUSHI- Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) update: http://www.niso.org/workrooms/sushi Adam Chandler presented an overview of what was happening with SUSHI – it’s available at http://www.niso.org/workrooms/sushi/info/SUSHI_ALA_Annual_2008-nisoupdate.ppt. First he gave some background on SUSHI itself. SUSHI uses the COUNTER schema – it’s a protocol for moving statistics between two ... http://litablog.org/2008/07/15/electronic-resources-management-interest-group-friday-june-27th-630-800pm/ Science Fiction and Fantasy: Looking at Information Technology and the Information Rights of the Individual, Saturday, 28 June 2008, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm in the Anaheim Convention Center, 304 A/B, Anaheim, CA (Disneyland) Distinguished science fiction and fantasy authors discussed their ideas about old and new technologies, how technology impacts humanity ... http://litablog.org/2008/07/15/science-fiction-and-fantasy-looking-at-information-technology-and-the-information-rights-of-the-individual/ LITABlog was just updated to the newest version of Wordpress, 2.6. For those that poke around behind the scenes, if you are interested in the newest features, here's a video overview: http://litablog.org/2008/07/15/litablog-upgrade-2/ 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 ... http://litablog.org/2008/07/13/next-generation-catalog-interest-group-meeting/ Getting Started with Drupal (a.k.a. Drupal4LITA Bootcamp) Preconference, June 27th, 2008 Anaheim Public Library Cary Gordon of the Cherry Hill Company, a vendor specializing in support of open source software, gave an extremely detailed introduction to Drupal 6.2, the latest version of the open source content management system. The attendees came from a ... http://litablog.org/2008/07/13/getting-started-with-drupal/ If We Don’t Call it Distance Learning, Does it Exist? Saturday, 8 am-noon, Paradise Pier Hotel in Anaheim, CA (Disneyland) Presenters: Kim Duckett, Librarian for Digital Technologies and Learning, North Carolina State University Libraries, Chad Haefele, Reference Librarian, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Samantha Hines, Assistant Professor, Distance Education Coordinator and Social ... http://litablog.org/2008/07/13/if-we-don%e2%80%99t-call-it-distance-learning-does-it-exist/ Thanks to the Internet Resources and Services Interest Group (IRSIG), there was another Ultimate Debate panel at ALA Annual 2008. The title this year was "There's No Catalog like No Catalog", and we are remarkably lucky that we were able to get a full recording of the debate for podcast ... http://litablog.org/2008/07/05/ultimate-debate-2008/ President's Program: Isn't it great to be in the library... wherever that is? Sunday June 29th, 2008, 4:00pm - 5:30pm (I apologize in advance for the level of detail here. I wasn't able to get online and post right away and so I'm working from my handwritten notes - which are ... http://litablog.org/2008/07/04/isnt-it-great-to-be-in-the-library-wherever-that-is/ This is going to have to be more of an experiential post than a factual one, I'm afraid... I attended the Top Tech Trends session and it held my attention throughout the whole thing - everything did. From the larger than life images of Karen Coombs and Sarah Houghton-Jan on ... http://litablog.org/2008/07/04/lita-top-technology-trends/ In the one of the last session slots of the ALA Conference was a gem of a program geared toward smallish public libraries who have either no IT Department or a very small one. Diane Neal, North Carolina Central University, Brenda Hough, MaintainIT Project and Jennifer Lee Peterson, WebJunction ... http://litablog.org/2008/07/04/keeping-your-computers-running-session/ Cindy Gibbon, Access Services Coordinator of Multnomah County Library (MCL), Oregon, opened the discussion about privacy and intellectual freedom in a web 2.0 world by sharing the results of a study of MCL's users. Some things MCL users said they want: Notification when requested items are added to the catalog Public comments ... http://litablog.org/2008/07/04/the-open-library-realizing-the-promise-and-mitigating-the-peril/ Time and Location: Sunday, 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm, Anaheim Convention Center, 210 A-C One would expect for something that old (in Google time) such as Ferber (FRBR), which has been around since 1998, to have spawned some kin. Meet Fred, er, FRAD (Functional Requirements for Authority Data). And they didn’t ... http://litablog.org/2008/07/04/you-know-frbr-but-have-you-ever-met-frad/ Thanks to the efforts of all involved, we were able to get a very clean soundboard recording of this year's Top Tech Trends program. Hope that everyone enjoys the recording, and comment and let us know what you think! Without feedback, we can't tell if you like it or hate ... http://litablog.org/2008/07/04/top-tech-trends-2008/ Building and Support Koha, an open-source ILS Saturday June 28th, 2008, 10:30-12:00 Hyatt Regency Orange County John Houser, Senior Technology Consultant for PALINET, and Johsua Ferraro, CEO of Liblime, set out to answer common questions about open-source ILS systems with a focus on Liblime's support for Koha. The format was an interview, and ... http://litablog.org/2008/07/01/building-and-supporting-koha/ Monday, June 30th, 2008 Hyatt Regency Orange County Walt Scacchi of UC-Irvine stepped in as a last-minute replacement speaker for Karen Sandler of the Software Freedom Law Center and gave a talk entitled "Research Results for Free/Open Source Software Development: Best Practices for Libraries? (and some legal issues too)" based on his ... http://litablog.org/2008/07/01/open-source-legal-issues/ Joe Ford convened the Emerging Technology Interest group managed discussion on "Open Source, Open Services" Darrell Gunter began by discussing Collexis research projects and applications for libraries. Fascinating work is being undertaken on computationally derived ontology, what Collexis refers to as Fingerprinting. [Bibliographic ontology (like FRBR or FRAD not getting any ... http://litablog.org/2008/07/01/open-source-open-services-emerging-technology-interest-group/ We got a great crowd of around 20 people for our Drupal 'Birds of a Feather'. The above is a shot of everybody in the BIGWIG Bloggers' room -- just before we got kicked out by some group from YALSA (bums, we'll get even)! (We then proceeded to the next ... http://litablog.org/2008/06/30/drupal4lib-bof-at-ala-anaheim/ Sarah Houghton-Jan (see her summary and trends) and I participated in Top Tech Trends virtually this past Sunday. It was a blast. I had a little easier time hearing than Sarah, although hearing myself speak was slightly disconcerting. I really enjoyed talking with people in the back channel Meebo chat ... http://litablog.org/2008/06/30/virtual-karens-top-tech-trends/ I had a lovely time presenting virtually, despite the sound issues on all ends. It still was a rather successful demonstration of virtual participation, and I think that was wonderful. Big thanks to Maurice York for organizing this for myself and Karen. I have 5 Trends I’d like to ... http://litablog.org/2008/06/29/top-technology-trends-from-sarah-houghton-jan-ala-2008/ 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 ... http://litablog.org/2008/06/29/lita-public-libraries-technology-interest-group-meeting/ Just reminding any who are interested in getting involved in BIGWIG that we are having our business meeting on Monday morning from 8 - 10 in the LITA Blogger's Room. This is located in Hilton Hotel in the Carmel room. Just go up 2 escalators from the lobby and take a ... http://litablog.org/2008/06/29/bigwig-business-meeting-monday-morning/ Just so that everyone is aware: the LITA Blogger's room, open to anyone who needs a quick 'net connection, can be found at: Hilton convention center, Carmel Room. The Carmel room is up 2 escalators from the lobby. See you there! http://litablog.org/2008/06/27/lita-bloggers-room/ This is not an organized LITA endeavor, but as a proof-of-concept for BIGWIG, I am going to be streaming as much as I can from ALA Annual 2008. The service I'm using for this is called Ustream, and the live channel can be found here: http://www.ustream.tv/griffey Because of the vagaries of internet ... http://litablog.org/2008/06/27/live-streaming-from-ala-annual-2008/ 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 ... http://litablog.org/2008/06/24/electronic-resources-management-ig-meeting-in-anaheim/ Here is a non-exhaustive list of Top Technology Trends for the American Library Association Annual Meeting (Summer, 2008). These Trends represent general directions regarding computing in libraries -- short-term future directions where, from my perspective, things are or could be going. They are listed in no priority order. "Bling" in your ... http://litablog.org/2008/06/19/top-tech-trends-for-ala-summer-08/ Cindi Trainor, in a fit of Twitter-induced brilliance, started putting together a Google Map for ALA Annual 2008 in Anaheim. Included thus far are hotels and restaurants, but people are still adding to it, so it's value should increase as we get closer and closer to the conference. Take a ... http://litablog.org/2008/06/18/google-map-for-ala-anaheim/ For all of the LITA members visiting Anaheim with us in a couple of weeks that haven't planned your days yet, BIGWIG has put together a Google Calendar with all of the LITA events listed. Why did we bother? Well, for those of us that use Google Cal, it makes ... http://litablog.org/2008/06/13/ala-annual-calendar-for-lita-events/ 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 ... http://litablog.org/2008/06/12/ngcig-meeting-at-annual-next-steps-in-next-generation-catalogs/ LITA has received news of new standards activity of interest from Cindy Hepfer, ALA Representative to NISO (HSLcindy@buffalo.edu) “A new ballot has been presented to TC46 Ballot Advisory Group: 'ISO/DIS 28500, WARC file format'. This is a new standard at the Draft International Standard (DIS) stage, and this may be the ... http://litablog.org/2008/06/04/new-standard-warc-web-arcive-file-format/ Those interested in identifier issues should take note of this updated info from Cindy Hepfer, ALA Representative to NISO (HSLcindy@buffalo.edu). "A new ballot has been presented to TC46 Ballot Advisory Group: 'ISO 2108:2005 (ISBN) Systematic Review'. This is a systematic review ballot of the published standard, ISO 2108:2005, Information and documentation ... http://litablog.org/2008/06/04/isbn-systematic-review-is-here/ The ALA Task Force on Electronic Membership Participation (TFOEMP) has been charged with evaluating ALA policy as it relates to members' ability to engage with and interact with the work of the association through committees and other working groups. A survey of members' practice and attitudes toward serving on Association ... http://litablog.org/2008/06/02/survey-from-the-task-force-on-electronic-membership-participation-tfoemp/ The ALA Annual Conference is just a few short weeks away, and we are again looking for volunteers to post brief summaries of LITA-sponsored sessions on the LITA Blog (http://litablog.org).  While you're visiting Anaheim to learn, meet up with old friends, and engage in discussion about the newest new things ... http://litablog.org/2008/05/29/official-call-for-lita-bloggers-at-ala-annual/ A while back, BIGWIG started up Your BIGWIG as a place to collaboratively do stuff.  One of the resources on Your BIGWIG is an embedded gCal. One day, in a spirit of "too much stuff to do, so I'll do something completely unrelated instead" I populated this calendar with all the ... http://litablog.org/2008/05/29/gcalendar-of-lita-events-at-annual-2008/ Vice-President/President-Elect: Michelle Frisque Directors-at-Large (Serving 3-year terms): Mona Couts; Colleen Cuddy; Lorre Smith New ALA Councilors who are LITA Members: Aaron Dobbs; Ling Hwey Jeng; Wei Jeng-Chu; Carla J. Stoffle; Julie Su More information about the winners is available at the LITA Web site. http://litablog.org/2008/05/02/2008-lita-election-results/ Online registration is available beginning May 1 for the 2008 LITA National Forum, "Technology & Community: Building the Techno Community Library," to be held October 16-19 at the Hilton Netherland Plaza Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio. Visit http://www.lita.org/forum08 to register for the Forum and for information on keynotes, preconferences, concurrent and ... http://litablog.org/2008/05/01/2008-national-forum-registration-open/ The LITA Blogs, Interactive Groupware and Wikis Interest Group (otherwise known by the sobriquet BIGWIG) is pleased to announce a new online presence for the group: www.yourbigwig.com What is YourBIGWIG? Straight from the site itself: BIGWIG has created this website in order to facilitate communication between BIGWIG members, potential members and interested parties. ... http://litablog.org/2008/05/01/your-bigwig/ Hello all! Due to a reasonably severe security issue regarding Wordpress, we had to rush an upgrade to version 2.5. For those that login to post, you'll notice that the interface is a bit different, but the functionality is still all there. There is a lot of information on the ... http://litablog.org/2008/04/11/once-more-into-the-update/ For the last of the LITA Election podcasts, we have one of the two candidates for LITA Vice President/President-Elect. Last up in this year's election podcasts, but certainly not least, is Michelle Frisque. We hope that you enjoy the podcast, that it helps you to decide who you ... http://litablog.org/2008/03/14/2008-lita-elections-michelle-frisque/ And finally we have the two candidates for LITA Vice President/President-Elect. First up (again, alphabetically) is David Bretthauer. We hope that you enjoy the podcast, that it helps you to decide who you would like to see among LITA's leadership in the upcoming year, and that you let us know both ... http://litablog.org/2008/03/14/2008-lita-elections-david-bretthauer/ 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. http://litablog.org/2008/03/13/orphan-works-hearing-march-13-2008/ First up in our 2008 LITA Elections podcast are the candidates for Director-at-Large, and next among the candidates is Lorre Smith. We hope that you enjoy the podcast, that it helps you to decide who you would like to see among LITA's leadership in the upcoming year, and that you let ... http://litablog.org/2008/03/13/2008-lita-elections-lorre-smith/ First up in our 2008 LITA Elections podcast are the candidates for Director-at-Large, and next among the candidates is Billy Kwan. We hope that you enjoy the podcast, that it helps you to decide who you would like to see among LITA's leadership in the upcoming year, and that you let ... http://litablog.org/2008/03/12/2008-lita-elections-billy-kwan/ First up in our 2008 LITA Elections podcast are the candidates for Director-at-Large, and next among the candidates is Colleen Cuddy. We hope that you enjoy the podcast, that it helps you to decide who you would like to see among LITA's leadership in the upcoming year, and that you let ... http://litablog.org/2008/03/11/2008-lita-elections-colleen-cuddy/ First up in our 2008 LITA Elections podcasts are the candidates for Director-at-Large, and first among the candidates (alphabetically, at least!) is Mona Couts. Hope that you enjoy the podcast, that it helps you to decide who you would like to see among LITA's leadership in the upcoming year, and that ... http://litablog.org/2008/03/10/2008-lita-elections-mona-couts/ As an effort towards transparency, here's the latest on the LITABlog updates: we're done! :-) Over the course of the last few hours, I just finished the last touches on the backend upgrades to LITABlog. These included: ensuring we are at the latest Wordpress release (currently 2.3.3), making sure that ... http://litablog.org/2008/03/09/litablog-upgrade-update/ Upcoming next week: the 2008 LITA Election podcast series! Last year we serenaded you with the dulcet tones of our nominees, to try and help you make informed choices about next year's LITA Leadership. This year, we will do the same. All of the nominees were asked to participate in ... http://litablog.org/2008/03/05/lita-election-podcasts/ Just a note: over the next several days, we will be working behind the scenes to upgrade LITAblog in a few ways, primarily updating software and such on the backend. Our loyal readers shouldn't notice anything out of the ordinary, but if you do, please email me and let me ... http://litablog.org/2008/02/18/litablog-upgrade/ Cindy Hepfer, ALA Representative to NISO has informed us that the following ISO Committee Draft of an International Standard has been issued for ballot: ISO/DIS 23081-2, Information and documentation -- Records management processes for Metadata -- Part 2: Conceptual and implementation issues Cindy needs responses for this standard by Friday, May ... http://litablog.org/2008/02/13/records-management-processes-for-metadata-part-2/ Because of the number of new things forwarded to us by Cindy Hepfer, ALA Representative to NISO, I’m going to make some consolidated announcements of some of the more specialized documents, so as not to overwhelm everyone. 1. ISO/DIS 16245, Information and documentation -- Boxes, file covers and other enclosures, ... http://litablog.org/2008/02/13/additional-niso-votes-coming-up/ Cindy Hepfer, ALA Representative to NISO, reports that the following ISO Committee Draft of an International Standard has been issued for ballot: ISO/CD 690, Information and documentation -- Guidelines for bibliographic references and citations to information resources. Cindy needs comments and vote recommendations by April 7. Information provided about this standard by ... http://litablog.org/2008/02/05/iso-guidelines-for-bibliographic-references-and-citations/ Also forwarded from Cindy Hepfer, ALA Representative to NISO, is the following ISO Committee Draft of an International Standard issued for ballot: ISO/FDIS 9707, Information and documentation -- Statistics on the production and distribution of books, newspapers, periodicals and electronic publications. Comments and vote recommendations from NISO members are due to ... http://litablog.org/2008/02/04/statistics-on-the-production-and-distribution-of-books-newspapers-etc/ Folks, this is the first of a rash of announcements about NISO votes and the solicitation of comments prior to those votes. Some of them have very short deadlines, unfortunately. I hope that the expressions of interest received on some of the earlier calls for comments continue! Although ... http://litablog.org/2008/02/04/iso-guidelines-for-the-creation-of-a-metadata-crosswalk/ 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 ... http://litablog.org/2008/01/31/lita-heads-of-library-technology-holt-meeting/ Cindy Hepfer, the ALA Representative to NISO, has notified us that the following ISO Draft International Standard has been issued for ballot: ISO/DIS 10957, Information and documentation -- International standard music number (ISMN) Summary: The International Standard Music Number (ISMN) was developed by and for the music publishing sector as a separate system ... http://litablog.org/2008/01/29/international-standard-music-number-ismn/ Cindy Hepfer, ALA’s representative to NISO, has informed us that the following ISO TC46 Committee Draft International Standard in 3 parts has been issued for ballot: ISO/CD 28560-1, Information and documentation -- Data model for use of RFID in libraries -- Part 1: General requirements and data elements Summary: Establishes an abstract model ... http://litablog.org/2008/01/29/rfid-in-libraries-standards-and-guidelines/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- In 1908, Thomas Edison stated "Anything, Everything is Possible." According to Smithsonian Magazine, the events and innovations that occurred a century ago marked America's entry into the modern world. The innovations in 1908 literally put us in motion. Wilbur Wright flew 2 hours and 20 minutes. Henry Ford introduced the Model T to ... http://litablog.org/2008/01/21/top-tech-trends-2/ The LITA International Relations Committee 2008 met from 10:30 – 12:00 noon on Monday, January 14 at the Marriott Courtyard. Teri Sierra Committee Chair led the discussion of the various items on the agenda. Minutes from 2007 Annual were approved and a report from LITA Board of ... http://litablog.org/2008/01/21/lita-international-relations-committee-meeting-2/ The Public Libraries Technology Interest met on Sunday, January 13th at the Four Seasons Hotel from 10-12 noon. Featured guests included Larra Clark from the ALA’s Office for Research and Statistics; and Kim Bolan and Robert Cullins authors of Technology Made Simple: An Simple ... http://litablog.org/2008/01/21/public-libraries-technology-interest-group-3/ 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 ... http://litablog.org/2008/01/21/lita-education-committee-meeting/ The recently formed LITA Assessment and Research Committee hosted a session on Friday morning about establishing a research strategy for LITA. Approximately 20 people from the Assessment and Research Committee, the Membership Committee, Committee and Interest Groups Chairs, LITA Emerging Leaders and the LITA Board participated in the session. Robin ... http://litablog.org/2008/01/18/assessment-and-research-meeting-on-friday-jan-11/ I've posted my ALA Midwinter trends as well. They can be found over at blyberg.net. Many thanks to my fellow trendsters for a really great discussion! http://litablog.org/2008/01/18/trends-from-john-blyberg/ Agenda 1. Questions regarding podcasts for LITA office candidates 2. Discussion on BIGWIG & Transparency 3. Conference podcasting 4. Brainstorm potential topics for social software showcase 5. ideas for interactivity or innovation for LITA forum 1. Questions for podcasts for LITA elections (Karen Coombs) Podcasts for LITA candidates contained these questions last ... http://litablog.org/2008/01/18/minutes-for-the-bigwig-meeting-at-ala-midwinter-2008-1132008/ LITA Open Source Systems IG business meeting Midwinter, 2008 January 14th Marriott Philadelphia Present were representatives of the National Archives of Canada, Liblime, Rowan University, Index Data, the Texas State Library, City College of San Francisco, Georgetown's Law Library, Texas Wesleyan, the Massachussetts Trial Court Law Library, Florida State University, Wayne State University, Minnesota's ... http://litablog.org/2008/01/18/open-source-systems-ig-meeting/ 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 ... http://litablog.org/2008/01/16/electronic-resources-ig-meeting-friday-11108-730-pm/ 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 ... http://litablog.org/2008/01/16/2008mw-j2kig/ Unfortunately for Committee Chairs, the meeting room posted in the schedule was filled with another group. The Chairs met in the hall of the Marriot and discussed issues such as getting new committee members onto the committee electronic discussion lists and getting new chairs onto the ComChairs list. ... http://litablog.org/2008/01/15/committee-chairs-meeting-11208-930am/ The IG and Committee Chairs meeting is held at each conference in order to discuss issues that Chairs have, and also to provide time and space for all the LITA leadership to interact face to face. Pres. President Mark Beatty encouraged all Chairs to report out about what we're doing. ... http://litablog.org/2008/01/15/lita-joint-ig-and-committee-chairs-meeting-11208-8am/ Membership Development discussed the Research and Assessment Committee workshop and implications for forthcoming activities. The membership has increased slightly and is slowly reaching former pre-dues-increase levels. The student category is the fastest growing category. The Committee had a brief discussion of "what next?" in terms of target groups and ... http://litablog.org/2008/01/15/membership-development-committee-11308-8am-10am/ The Standards Interest Group meeting on January 12th from 4-6 was very informative. Todd Carpenter, the managing director of NISO, began by giving the group a very thorough report on current NISO activities. Mr. Carpenter described 2007 as a very busy and fruitful year for NISO. NISO ... http://litablog.org/2008/01/15/standards-interest-group-meeting/ I've posted some trend thoughts for Midwinter over at Library Web Chic. Please feel free to comment on what I've said either here or there and I'll look forward to seeing you all bright and early tomorrow (1/13/2008) morning at 8 am! http://litablog.org/2008/01/12/trends-from-karen-coombs/ These are my notes from the Dialogue on Government Information meeting way back on December ~18th (sorry for the oversight) Summary: While several participants had differing views on why we all assembled, good discussion happened. ALA has mostly good processes for moving issues to and through Council for offical comment, which can ... http://litablog.org/2008/01/12/dialogue-on-government-information/ IG Chairs that were represented at the meeting: Bylaws Authority & Control BIGWIG Distance Learning Imagineering Open Source Systems Internet Resources Remember to renew your Interest Group. Everyone should have gotten an email about the renewal … if you are the chair, you need to be so listed on the website. Check the ComChair list. Many groups ... http://litablog.org/2008/01/12/ig-chair-meeting-saturday-9-am/ Per the Web Advisory Committee (WAC) The design concept for the ALA website is now available for review. It's up in Philadelphia on kiosks in the Pennsylvania Convention Center, but anyone can get to the site from anywhere. The URL is http://alamockups.luminanze.com. Please visit when you get a ... http://litablog.org/2008/01/11/new-ala-website-design-concept-request-for-feedback/ I have posted my Top Tech Trends on LibrarianInBlack.net. Feel free to comment either here or there (though actually reading the trends first is preferred). http://litablog.org/2008/01/11/sarah-houghton-jan%e2%80%99s-top-tech-trends-for-2008-ala-midwinter/ I just posted my trends over at Free Range Librarian. I realize I left off OPACs, after writing about them all fall. I'll keep those thoughts as a extra-speshul treat for our meeting this Sunday morning at o'dark-thirty. See you all then! http://litablog.org/2008/01/09/trends-from-kg-schneider/ Friday, January 11, 2008, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Please join the LITA Membership Development Committee and members from around the country for networking, good cheer, and great fun! Expect lively conversation and excellent drinks. Cebu Restaurant and Bar123 Chestnut Street, Old City, Philadelphia (215) 629-1100 The hosts at Cebu have ... http://litablog.org/2008/01/08/lita-happy-hour-2/ Here, listed in no priority order, is a set of top technology trends/predictions for fellow librarians to chew on during the ALA Mid-Winter Meeting, 2008. The use of Linux as a server platform as well as a desktop platform will increase - The latest version of Windows seems to have gone ... http://litablog.org/2008/01/07/top-technology-trends-ala-mid-winter-2008/ For those blogging at Midwinter a blogging table and 4 chairs will be set up in the ALA office area in the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Additionally, free wireless internet service will be available in the Pennsylvania Convention Center in meeting rooms and corridors, (but not the exhibit hall) for use ... http://litablog.org/2008/01/07/space-for-blogging-at-ala-midwinter-2008/ The business meeting for BIGWIG (Blogs, Interactive Groupware, Wiki Interest Group) will take place on Sunday 1/13/2008 from 10:30 am to noon in Room 307B of the Philadelphia Conference Center. We currently have the following agenda items for the meeting. 1. Questions for LITA election podcasts 2. BIGWIG and Transparency 3. Conference ... http://litablog.org/2008/01/07/bigwig-business-meeting-at-midwinter/