2008

gCalendar of LITA events at Annual 2008

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 LITA events I could find for ALA Annual in Anaheim.  If you’re frustrated, as many are, with the ALA Event Planner, feel free to save events from this calendar into your own (trust me, this is *much* easier than the Event Planner for LITA events) Por su servico…

General information

Dialogue on Government Information

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 break when stressed by the need for both speed and expertise. Generally, these processes work fine for issues which affect small groups of interest but strain when several large groups of interest have opposing views on an issue needing a swift response. Suggestions for smoothing the rough patches included: providing mechanisms for year-round, asynchronous, online communication; raising awareness of issues which affect parts of ALA subgroups; identifying which groups are doing what about an issue, and fostering collaboration among disparate groups with similar interests. Several related problems were identified and some ideas for mitigation/routing around were offered. The…

2008

New ALA website design concept – request for feedback

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 chance. , Feel free to publicize the URL. There is a link to a survey at the end of the mockups; please be sure to complete the survey to let us know what you think. Also, please remember this step in the process is just about the graphic design. Interactivity and site architecture and other features will be coming in future iterations of the design. {URL corrected to http://alamockups.luminanze.com/}

2007

ALA WAC[ky Web Advisory Committee]

Not an agenda post this time, link & minor synthesis instead. WAC reviewed some Challenged Content Guidelines for discussion and possible adoption by Divisions History: This is a response to a challenge to program write-up of a Program in 2003 Lots of cool stuff being done by ITTS, see the Agenda for the updates. We had wide ranging discussions about much of it (which I was too involved in to remember to take notes) ALA ITTS Reports Sympa — All lists are now on Sympa I Love Libraries — added to ALA homepage in place of “Libraries & You” link (with no loss of links to content) Google (appliance) — Branding mostly changed to ALA from Google; search crawler was hammering web server, services moved to different server, all is better now; Searches should get more relevant responses rates as appliance continues to scan server Moodle — the Moodle test…

2007

LITA Committee Chairs

Saturday June 23, 2007 9:00 – 10:00 am Washington Convention Center 209 Important Resources for Committee Chairs LITA Staff LITA Table at Conferences LITA Committees web pages Committee lists and membership Reports submission form All meetings are open (except awards or personnel matters Please submit in timely manner (within a week or two of conference, please; not a week before the next conference) 🙂 Orientation Tip Sheet Calendar LITA Manual Annual Program Planning (Manual Section 10) 2008 Program Proposal Form Speaker/Panelist Release Form Committee Chairs suggested reciprocal LITA.org –> LITA wiki links for better committee flexibility. Web Committee will discuss this at the Web Committee Meeting. Also suggested adding Liaisons pages to wiki for more timely updating.

2007

LITA Joint Committe and IG Chairs

Saturday June 23, 2007 8:00 – 9:00 am Washington Convention Center 209 1. Introductions all around President Bonnie Postelwaithe Vice President Mark Beatty (I was stuck on a long bus and missed these 1st three) Executive Director Mary Taylor LITA experiences 5% growth this year Mostly student members, we need to help our new mebers find their place in LITA National Forum in Nashville was a success, see you in Denver 4 Regional Institutes this year Mosly licensed by consortia and  institutions Schuman Publishers will be publishing LITA Guides So LITA gets 10% discounts from Schumann and ALA Editions LITA publications LITA-L moved to Sympa Program Planning Chair Gail Clement Spoke about how LITA’s PPC is seen by other Division’s groups as a good model LITA PPC 1 year process is nimble, yet has a clear process to catch and fix omissions and errors LITA Web Manager David Altenhof We’ve…

2007

Taking Chances: Our Future or Our Demise?

ALA Open Space Technology Conference within the Conference Washington Convention Center room 101 8:00 am to 4:00 pm Saturday and Sunday Do you find the most useful and energizing “session” is the ad hoc discussion in the hallway or during a break?  Do you yearn to expand on those conversations with colleagues who share your passion for ideas and concepts not necessarily on the formal program?  ALA is making space available and a facilitator, if necessary. Drop by for a while or stay for the day. I thought I saw this on the Annual Wiki but now I don’t find it.  I cribbed the stuff above from Mary Ghikas’ “What’s Happening” notes (which I was given at my request while socializing in the Renaissance Washington Lobby)

2007

New ALA Website Mockup – Feedback requested

The ALA Web Advisory Committee would like to broaden their input-gathering process, so I’m posting it here. The link to the wireframes and survey has been added to the WebPlanning wiki, at http://wikis.ala.org/webplanning/index.php/Web_Planning Please have a look at the mockups UserWorks created for ALA as a result of the usability assessment and subsequent exercises they performed for us. Background: http://www.ala.org/ala/pressreleases2007/june2007/ALAwebsiteredesign.htm More background: http://wikis.ala.org/webplanning The start page: http://userworks.com/ala/start.htm These wireframes will be available at the kiosks at the registration area of the Washington Convention Center. WAC will talk more about this at the WAC meeting on Monday.

2007

ALA WO State Telecommunications Policy Workshop

Thursday, June 21, 2007 9:00 – 4:00pm Washington Convention Center, Room 147 A/B I’m liveblogging this session over on my blog, so far I’ve heard: Mark Lloyd, Center for American Progress Mark was speaking about the necessity of urban library support for the rural libraries provisions in this year’s Farm Bill. Please say to your Senators and Representatives: “Please support the rural library provisions in this year’s Farm Bill.” Gloria Tristani, Spiegel & McDiarmid (former FCC Commissioner) Gloria spoke about the importance of sufficient bandwidth for public libraries, wherever they are. She spoke about ALA WO efforts to simplify the E-rate for libraries, modify “poverty calculations” to bring libraries into parity with school districts and respond to “Notices of Inquiry” from the FCC. Sometimes FCC comment periods may say they are “closed,” if you have a comment you should send it in anyway (up until a decision is made). Grassroots…

2007

All your LITA

are belong to you. The official list of all things LITA can be found on the LITA website. We are a busy group, as the time-slot conflicts demonstrate. What is it with the 1:30pm to 3:30pm slot on Saturday (10 overlaps) and the 10:30 to Noon slot on Sunday (9 overlaps)?! I guess we like to sleep in 🙂 Remember, the LITA Blogger’s Room is WCC 154B — Friday through Tuesday (8am-6pm) — LITA is sponsoring the room, but anyone who wants to (LITA member or not) is welcome to plug-in & power up with us. Interestingly, the LITA Happy Hour is not [at the time of this post] listed on Friday evening on the LITA website. If you know the details, you know what to do… listed on this page: http://www.lita.org/ala/lita/litaevents/Annual2007Washington.cfm. It’s Saturday, 5:30pm to 8pm at the Capitol City Brewing Company.