I’d like to invite LITA members (and those who want to be LITA members!) to the LITA Town Meeting on Monday, January 14, 2008, from 8:00 am to 10:00 am in room 103A of the Philadelphia Convention Center. This year’s Town Meeting will focus on “Communicating and Marketing the Strength of LITA.” LITA’s new Emerging Leader, Lauren Pressley, will help lead a discussion of the strategies and technologies used to communicate to the LITA membership and to market membership success to the division, ALA, and the greater library community. LITA’s Programs and Marketing Specialist, Melissa Prentice, will also be on hand to participate. Please use the blog (preferably with comments here) to submit your input prior to the conference. Coverage and follow-up discussion after the conference will also be posted here. The perspective of members unable to attend conferences is critical to the success of valuable marketing and communication for…
Author: Andrew Pace
NISO OpenURL and Metasearch Workshop
While it might seem self-serving, I cannot help but further promote an important NISO workshop that his coming up next month. http://www.niso.org/news/events_workshops/OpenURL-05-wkshp.html This 3-day event will update librarians, middleware vendors, and content providers (which includes libraries, folks!) about OpenURL and Metasearch, and their innovative uses in libraries. Day 1 is devoted to OpenURL. While the technology may be commoditized by now, there are some interesting things going on with its application. Moreover, version 1.0 is in full release, which has implications for upgrades and development. Day 2 includes an update on the NISO Metasearch Initiative, including the release of several important documents from its three committees–Access Management, Collection Description, and Search & Retrieval. These include best practices and draft standards. While it may seem like a long time coming, all three committees have created what will be very important work in moving metasearch standards forward. Some brief words about all…
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