Category: 2007

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…

I have created a public Google Calendar of LITA events at Annual. It is based on the scheduling info Aaron posted a link to last week. This version renders a little more clearly on my phone, but you might like to import it or subscribe to it in a variety of ways. Here is the HTML version Here is the Ical version (this imports nicely into Outlook 2003, and should work on Outlook 2007 and most every other desktop calendar app) Here is the (wonky but workable) XML version for your RSS reader

LITA BIGWIG (Blogs, Wikis, and Social Software IG) is pleased to present the first ever online, unconference at ALA Annual 2007. The Social Software Showcase will be occuring around and during Annual. We have gathered eleven librarians and leaders in the field to present on cutting edge technology and social software. Regardless of where you are in the world, you will have the opportunity to view and discuss the presentations on the official Social Software Showcase Wiki. BIGWIG wanted to do something different. Something that could spark conversations between people and would not be limited to a finite time and space. Something fun. We also wanted to devise a program for ALA that could be responsive to new technology. Current ALA planning procedures are not responsive to emerging technologies. In fact, at least two of the technologies that will be discussed are less then 4 months old! Come and see…

You are cordially invited to the LITA President’s program, Tag! Your IT!: Online Digital Audio Collections Meet PennTags. The program will take place Sunday, June 24, 2007, 4-5 pm, following the Top Technology Trends (1-3pm) and the LITA Awards Reception (3-4pm), at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel’s East and State Rooms. My President’s Program is an interesting mash up of two hot topics: digital libraries, in this case, digital audio libraries, and the social tagging system PennTags. Historic sound recordings are an important part of our national heritage. Digitizing historic recorded sound collections for use on the web requires extensive indexing and access points. Using social bookmarking and tagging in combination with standard subject classification and indexing terms to create folksonomies creates a rich networking of resources that greatly enhances access to the collection. Chuck Haddix (Marr Sound Archivist at the University of Missouri Kansas City) presents The Voices of World…

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.

The LITA Next Generation Catalog Interest Group (NGCIG) will hold its inaugural meeting at the ALA Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, on Saturday, June 23, from 1:30 to 3:30 in the Madison Hotel Montpelier Salon I. We will have a managed discussion featuring presentations on three libraries’ approaches to next generation catalogs: Don Barlow, Westerville Public Library, will discuss their work with Innovative’s Encore product Dale Poulter, Vanderbilt University, will discuss their work with Ex Libris’ Primo Steve Shadle, University of Washington, will discuss their implementation of OCLC’s WorldCat Local LITA IG meetings are open to all ALA attendees (and for non-attendees, we already have a couple of bloggers lined up). Since this is a discussion and not a formal program, we’re relying on you to show up with questions and input. — Thomas Dowling Chair, LITA NGCIG