DATE: 1/24/2009 GROUP: Education Committee CHAIRS: David Ward, Mandy Havert REPORTER: David Ward CONFERENCE: Midwinter ATTENDEES: 12 CURRENT ACTIVITIES: LITA Education combined with Regional Institutes in the past year. We spent from Annual 08 – Midwinter 09 reviewing our charge and creating organizational documents to track and help guide the newly combined committee’s role. Part of this involved assigning committee members as liaisons to all LITA IGs/Committees to gather information on possible educational programming opportunities, including Regional Institutes, Programs/Preconferences at Annual, Midwinter opportunities, and online webinar/tutorial/course planning. At Midwinter we reviewed liaison reports and decided on the following topics to pursue programming for over the next year: Open Source Mobile Tech RDA Extensible Catalog SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) Semantic Web Additionally, we are going to work with LITA Forum Committee, Top Tech Trends, PPC, and others to pursue other topics and speakers as opportunities arise. In particular, we are going…
Brett Butler Entrepreneurship Award Committee: Midwinter 2009 Meeting Report
DATE: 1/23/2009 GROUP: LITA/Brett Butler Entrepreneurship Award CHAIR: Martin Halbert REPORTER: Martin Halbert CONFERENCE: Midwinter ATTENDEES: 5 CURRENT ACTIVITIES: The LITA Brett Butler Award Committee met on Saturday, January 24, 2009, at 1:30 PM in the Colorado Convention Center room 712. Several members were absent because of budget cuts in travel at their institutions. Attending were: Nancy Colyar (Past Chair), Martin Halbert (Current Chair), Ronald Peterson, Mary Alice Ball (Board Liaison), and Helen Wilbur (Awards Representative). Absent were: Emily Ford and Billy Kwan. The committee selected this year’s recipient of the award, and will write this up together with the citation for presentation at the awards ceremony at annual. FUTURE ACTIVITIES: The group noted again the small number of nominations this year (3), and discussed ways of increasing the awareness of the award. Publicizing the award on additional listservs was the first priority: CNI-Announce (Martin) DLF-Announce (Martin) MLIS program listservs…
Take the Forum 2009 Concurrent Session Feedback Survey
This year the Forum 2009 Planning Committee is trying something new. We are asking the community of LITA members and potential Forum attendees to give the Committee feedback on which proposals they would be most interested in seeing presented as concurrent sessions at Forum. The Committee will add this information to other factors in determining which proposals to accept and to assist in the scheduling of sessions. We sincerely appreciate your input and your time. http://yourbigwig.com/proposals/forum09 The survey will be open until Sunday, March 22nd for your input. Survey Tips: * You are not required to login to participate. * Please rate the proposals from 1 star (least interesting) to 5 stars (most interesting). There are 65 sessions total. You can rank all or only some. * The order in which the proposals display is randomized on an individual session basis, so the order will differ if you return more…
Don't Miss LITACamp – LITA's first Unconference
Have you ever been “speed-geeking?†Been struck by “lightning-talksâ€? Join your colleagues and keynoters Joan Frye Williams and John Blyberg at the first-ever, LITACamp, “The Everywhere Library: Creating, Communicating, Integrating,†May 7-8 in Dublin, Ohio. Participants determine the topic and format of the sessions on-site, sign up for time slots and pitch session ideas to all. This format encourages collaboration, interaction, discussion and real-time innovation. You get to be both a participant and a presenter, discussing and learning about topics you really care about. Visit the LITA web site for registration and housing information and the LITACamp wiki and LITACamp blog for the most up-to-date information on the Camp. Registration includes Thursday lunch, continental breakfasts, parking and wifi at the conference center. Registration will be accepted online and onsite; deadline to receive LITA housing rate is April 10. LITACamp will be ideal for anyone interested in using technology to improve…
LITA Preconferences at ALA Annual
LITA is offering some great preconferences this year. Both are full-day workshops held on Friday, July 10, 2009 in Chicago. Though they are held in conjunction with the ALA Annual Conference, you do NOT need to attend Annual to register for them. Creating Library Web Services: Mashups and APIs del.icio.us subject guides, Flickr library displays, YouTube library orientation; with mashups and APIs, it’s easier to bring pieces of the web together with library data. Learn what an API is and what it does, the components of web services, how to build a mashup, how to work with PHP, and how to create web services for your library. Participants should be comfortable with HTML markup and have an interest in learning about web scripting and programming and are encouraged to bring a laptop for hands-on participation. Karen Coombs of the University of Houston is presenting. A Thousand Words: Taking Better Photos…
Announcing the LITA Program Process System Task Force
LITA currently does not have a single system to gather, evaluate and approve program proposals that are submitted and share the information among the relevant committees. The LITA Program Planning Committee, LITA Education Committee, LITA National Forum 2009 Committee and LITA Camp are all using various systems to review and select appropriate programs for their events. Charge: In support of implementing a centralized system to gather, evaluate and select programs, the LITA Program Process System Task Force will identify systems to determine the most appropriate systems and recommend what they determine to be the best choice(s). Gather system requirements Identify common elements for all committees as well as unique elements for each committee Identify, evaluate, and analyze available systems Task Force Members: Thanks to the following people for agreeing to serve on this task force: Ranti Junus, Chair (LITA Program Planning Committee) Dale Poulter (LITA Program Planning Committee) Zoe Steward-Marshall (LITA…
Building NISO voting pools, continued
Another announcement by Cindy Hepfer, ALA Voting representative to NISO (and recent recipient of the Ross Atkinson Lifetime Achievement Award!) has arrived. This announcement builds on earlier efforts to establish voting pools for standards requiring reaffirmation, forwarded by the NISO Content and Collection Management Topic Committee. This group has been assigned the name of Group 4. The text associated with this announcement is as follows: “In accordance with NISO procedures, we are offering you the option of joining the voting pool for five NISO standards that are due for reviews. All five standards are under the responsibility of the Content and Collection Management (CCM) Topic Committee. … Joining the voting pool will allow you to vote on the standard and provide comments. Once the voting pools have been formed, separate ballots for each standard will be issued only to those who have joined the pool. If you do not join…
Guidelines for digitization of records
Cindy Hepfer, ALA Voting representative to NISO, sends us a new ballot announcement to start our week. This one is ISO/CD 13028, Implementation guidelines for digitisation of records. The text supplied with this ballot explains: “This is the first ballot on a new standard, ISO/CD 13028, Information and documentation — Implementation guidelines for digitisation of records. This Standard provides guidance for maintaining records in digital format only, where the original paper, or other non-digital source record, has been copied by digitising or other means. It sets out the best practice guidelines for digitisation processes to meet the requirements for trustworthiness and reliability of records.†Cindy reminds us that this is not a NISO standard, but is being balloted by ISO. ALA is not voting on the standard itself but rather is providing feedback to NISO as to whether to approve or disapprove the standard. NISO will review and consider the…
National Forum proposal deadline approaching
The 2009 National Forum Committee seeks proposals for high quality concurrent sessions for the 12th annual LITA National Forum to be held at the Hilton Salt Lake City Center hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah from October 1-4, 2009. Keynoters David Weinberger, author of ‘Everything is Miscellaneous’ and Joan Lippincott, CNI’s Associate Executive Director have already signed on. Submit proposals by February 20, 2009 online at: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lita2009/ The 2009 Forum Planning Committee will review proposals starting in February 2009. You will be contacted about the status of your proposal by the end of March. View the complete call for proposals for more info.
Management System for Records
Cindy Hepfer, ALA Representative to NISO, has brought to our attention a clutch of announcements on new ISO activities. The first two of these involve (1) an ISO Committee Draft of a TC46/SC11 New work item: Management system for records – Fundamentals and vocabulary and (2) : Information and documentation – Management system for records – Requirements. Information provided about this activity by NISO: (1) “This is a proposal to initiate a new project within TC46/SC11 (Archives/Records Management) to develop a standard for Information and documentation – Management system for records – Fundamentals and vocabulary. This standard will describe fundamentals of a management system for records and define related terms. This standard is needed to form the basis of the “family” of management system for records standards by presenting the structure of the standards family and relationship to other management system standards.†(2) “This standard will specify business requirements for…