New vacancy listings are posted weekly on Wednesday at approximately 12 noon. Central Time. They appear under New This Week and under the appropriate regional listing. Postings remain on the LITA Job Site for four weeks. New This Week Assistant University Librarian for Technology Services, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, GA Systems Integration Specialist, SWITCH Library Consortium, Milwaukee, WI Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for information on submitting a job posting.
LITA Forum 2012: early bird rates available through August 31
Early Bird Registration Deadline August 31, 2012! Last chance to save up to $50 on registration for the 2012 LITA National Forum “New World of Data: Discover. Connect. Remix.,” to be held October 4-7, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Downtown in Columbus, OH. Don’t forget to book your room at the Hyatt by September 3, 2012 to guarantee the LITA room rate. This year’s Forum will feature keynote speakers Eric Hellman, Ben Shneiderman, and Sarah Houghton. More than 30 concurrent sessions and a dozen poster sessions will provide a wealth of practical information on a wide range of topics. Two preconference workshops will also be offered; Tabatha Farney, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs and Nina McHale, Arapahoe Library District, CO will present “Developing a Web Analytics Strategy for Your Library: Using Data to Measure Success” and Christopher Manly, Cornell University will present “Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Running Your…
Jobs in Library Technologies: August 29
New vacancy listings are posted weekly on Wednesday at approximately 12 noon. 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 Director of Strategic Initiatives and Planning – Librarian University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO Full Time Librarian needed for DC Charter Early Childhood School, Eagle Academy Public Charter School, Washington, DC Library/ICT Expert Reviewers, CRDF Global, all work done remotely via teleconference/Internet Library Services Manager, City of Arcadia, Arcadia, CA Systems and Emerging Technologies Librarian, California State University, Northridge, Northridge, CA Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for information on submitting a job posting.
New ALCTS/LITA Metadata Standards Committee
LITA and the Association for Library Collections &Technical Services (ALCTS) , with the support of Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), divisions of the American Library Association, are pleased to announce the formation of the ALCTS/LITA Metadata Standards Committee. The ALCTS/LITA Metadata Standards Committee will play a leadership role in the creation and development of metadata standards for bibliographic information. The Committee will review and evaluate proposed standards; recommend approval of standards in conformity with ALA policy; establish a mechanism for the continuing review of standards (including the monitoring of further development); provide commentary on the content of various implementations of standards to concerned agencies; and maintain liaison with concerned units within ALA and relevant outside agencies. The Metadata Standards Committee will begin its work at the Midwinter Meeting of the American Library Association, January 2013. While composition of the committee is still under discussion, membership will likely include equal numbers of voting members appointed by ALCTS and LITA and a voting…
Jobs in Libray Technologies: August 15
New vacancy listings are posted weekly on Wednesday at approximately 12 noon. 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 Circulation Services Unit Supervisor, Oregon State University Libraries & Press, Corvallis, OR Digital Preservation Librarian, Yale University, New Haven, CT Electronic Resource Metadata Management Librarian, New York University, New York, NY Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for information on submitting a job posting.
New LITA board members take office
Cindi Trainor, coordinator, Library Technology and Data Services, at Eastern Kentucky University, is the newly elected vice-president/president-elect of LITA. Her term, and that of newly elected LITA board members, began at the conclusion of the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim last month. Trainor has been active in LITA since 2007, when she served on the LITA Library Hi Tech Award Committee and participated in the Blogs, Interactive GroupWare and Wikis Interest Group (BIGWIG). Since then, Trainor has served on the Web Coordinating and the Top Tech Trends Committees and the Online Programming and Electronic Participation Implementation Task Forces. As a director-at-large on the LITA Board, Trainor has served on the Executive Committee and has liaised with the Web Coordinating and the Assessment and Research Committees. “LITA’s members are its strength and its life, and I want to build on that by helping to transform LITA into an organization that is…
Student Registration Rate for the 2012 LITA Forum
LITA is offering a special student registration rate to the 2012 LITA National Forum to a limited number of graduate students enrolled in ALA accredited programs. The Forum will be held October 5-7, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Columbus, OH. To learn more about the Forum, visit http://www.ala.org/lita/conferences/forum/2012 In exchange for the discounted registration, students will assist the LITA organizers and the Forum presenters with the on-site operations for the Forum. This year’s theme is “New World of Data.” We are anticipating an attendance of 400-500 decision makers and implementers of new information technologies in libraries. The selected students will be expected to attend the full LITA National Forum, Friday noon through Sunday noon, but not the pre-conferences on Thursday and Friday. You will be assigned a variety of duties, but will be able to attend the Forum programs, which include 3 keynote sessions, approximately 30 concurrent sessions,…
Jobs in Library Technologies: August 8
New vacancy listings are posted weekly on Wednesday at approximately 12 noon. 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 Director of Strategic Initiatives and Planning – Librarian University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO Web Services Librarian, University of Mississippi/University Libraries, University, MS Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for information on submitting a job posting.
Deadline extended to submit presentation proposal to “Innovation in Libraries 2012”
Innovation in Libraries 2012: A Free Post Conference event after LITA Forum Invitation and Call for Proposals Do you love exploring new ideas? Always secretly wished you knew more about how to create an app? Wonder what the next wave of library innovation might be? If you answered yes, then Innovation in Libraries 2012 is for you. The event will happen after LITA Forum concludes on Oct. 7, and will continue through the morning of Oct. 8. Sponsored by OCLC and held at the Columbus Metropolitan Library Main Library, Innovation in Libraries 2012 is your chance to hear from experts and colleagues, and contribute your ideas. Library innovation of all flavors will be on tap; you are invited. To register and learn more about Innovation in Libraries 2012, go to: http://www.oclc.org/innovation. Proposals requested Whether you plan to attend LITA Forum or not, you are encouraged to share your innovations, ideas…
Jobs in Library Technologies: August 1
New vacancy listings are posted weekly on Wednesday at approximately 12 noon. 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 Library Technical Systems Coordinator, University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for information on submitting a job posting.