LITA’s Happy Hour at 6 Arms on 300 E. Pike Friday night was great! About 35 members showed up to network and discuss LITA activities and meetings here in Seattle. The brew pub is a cozy place with a wide selection of frothy, bubbly and hot stuff. And the place was hopping! In conversation with Clara Ruttenberg, Systems Librarian in D.C., she said that Happy Hour was where she could quickly see her colleagues before the conference was underway. Though not on a LITA committee yet, she planned to volunteer for one soon. Mike Sainsbury from Greater Victoria Public Library and an enthusiastic participant on the LITA Membership Committee has lots of ideas for increasing LITA membership including looking into drafting IT support staff in libraries to join LITA. Speaking of membership, Diane Bison, who is running for LITA VP told me that she feels that “there are many librarians…
Category: 2007
No Discussion Discussion on RDA
Saturday 10:30-12:30: ALCTS/ Electronic Resources Interest Group [NOTE: I’d promised to blog this session for the new ALCTS NRMIG Metadata Blog, but since one person at ALCTS must approve all potential bloggers and has no sense of urgency about it, I’m posting it on the LITA Blog. Maybe ALCTS will get their act together for Annual?] The description for this session was pretty tempting: “If RDA is attempting to be “all things for all,” is it accomplishing its goal with Dublin Core, LOM, and visual resources communities? We have heard from many perspectives, commentaries to RDA from “traditional cataloging” communities, but what is it to different metadata communities? We have very little direct information from those communities how they think this content standard will work for them. This discussion will address these issues.”
OITP Telecommunications Subcommittee
Welcome & Comments Legislative/Regulatory Update * Outcomes of 109th Congress — “Not too much” harm done? * “Predictions” for 110th Congress — Universal Service reform (E-Rate) — Network Neutrality — Spectrum Allocation/Ownership — DOPA (again) * State Issues — S-DOPA (State-level DOPA look-alikes) — Idaho is already facing an S-DOPA *Other news — E-Rate is 10 years old this February Internet2 – Presentation from Lou Fox * Defined I2 * K20 * Demoed some projects utilizing K20/I2 * Last mile & bandwidth/workstation difficulties * Immedeate issue is not getting 10meg to every workstation, the issue is getting access to the network to experiment and see how the bandwidth can support applications for multiple audiences (public libraries) * High res and detailed streaming programs are being produced at academic libraries on I2 * Need to figure out how to do a national non-profit which can apply for E-Rate nationally, how to…
LITA Board Meeting, Saturday
This was a loooooong meeting with a lot of content. I tried to condense it has much as I could. There are three main sections to the meeting and I have bolded them for easier skimming. Present at the meeting: Bonnie Postlethwaite, Mary Taylor, Mark Beatty, Jonathan Rothman, Andrew Pace, Karen Starr, Barbara Higginbotham, David Bretthauer, Valerie Edmonds, Melissa Prentice, Debra Shapiro, Michelle Frisque, Amira Aaron, and Maribeth Manhoff Consent Agenda –Motion to accept the Consent Agenda is passed. Budget Report is Accepted. LITA Assessment and Research Task Force is here to report of their findings. Assessment is not something that LITA has been very good at doing in the past. The task force used the strategic plan to inform the report and decided that future assessments should be done consistently throughout the program. It should also be given a home so that the assessment can be carried out and…
Newbie at ALA MW 2007
My name is Steve Butzel, and I am head of the reference department at the Nashua Public Library in Nashua, NH. I am also the coordinator of the “From the Reference Desk” blog at our library. Some of the sessions I’ve attended so far include: “Podcast U” pre-conference LITA Technology for Public Libraries interest group LIRT discussion about services to millennials. One observation I’ve made in general is that my presence as a public librarian at most sessions is greatly appreciated. Apparently, librarians from public libraries are not frequent visitors to some committees/interest groups/round tables at the national level. In fact, the LITA Technology of Public Libraries group was started specifically because LITA members felt there was a need to more effectively recruit public librarians to LITA events. That being said, remember, I am new to this whole scene, so my observations may not be espoused by all. I plan…
Public Libraries Technology Interest Group
Sunday: 8 – 10 a.m. Our first event/meeting was a big success with almost 30 participants. Thanks to everyone who attended. Paul Keith and Irmgarde Brown (co-chairs) welcomed everyone, gave a brief introduction to our new interest group and encouraged public librarians to join LITA. Our Discussion Topic Our guest speaker was Brian Auger from Howard County Public Library in Maryland. Brian shared a few facts about his system: 3rd wealthiest county in the country, second smallest population at 260,000 people, and yet they circulate over 2M items a year out of only 6 branches. Howard County started re-thinking their commitment to “traditional” computer software as Web-based technologies began emerging. It appeared to them that such a basic system should be cheaper and easier to secure. With the support of only 2 I.T. staff back then, the library began a slow evolution into Linux (first by implementing the Linux Firewalls…
Web Coordinating Committee
Introductions *Mary Taylor introduced our new staff liaison, Melissa Prentice * David Altenhof, Kyle Felker, Howard Sherman, Aaron Dobbs, Janet Arth, Nick Baker, Melissa Prentice, Sue Peacock, Bonnie Postlethwaite IG & Comm Chair meeting discussion — David Altenhof & Aaron Dobbs * Recognise duplication & triplication of effort in reporting (an archival copy, blog, and wiki) — Archival copy (must be submitted by Chair of IG or Committee) — blog posts about meetings could be linked (let IG or Committee Web coordinator know about specific requests) — wiki posts about meetings could also be linked * Conclusions / Action Items — Archival Quality Minutes are mandatory (required by Association (LITA & ALA) — Kyle Felker offered to look at writing a reports page to stick in WordPress which will list required report elements, send an email for the “official” archive, and post the official meeting report (go Kyle!) (see Meeting…
LITA BIGWIG Midwinter Meeting Minutes
Would we want to put on a face to face web 2.0 thing? Give people hands on experience with stuff? Could be a good chance to get techie and non-techie people together. Facilities might be available if we can come up with a plan for events and such in the next 60-90 days. —– Michelle Boule, U of Houston, Co-Chari Diane Hillman, Cornell, Standards Coordinator for LITA Erin McCaffrey, Regis U in Denver, Mark Beatty, VP, President-Elect Tiffeny McCall, UTKnoxville, new LITA person Jason Griffey, UT Chattanooga, Chair-Elect Karen Coombs, Co-Chair, U Houston Beth Hoffman, Newbie, Not Present but Important Kevin Clark, Tech Coordinator for Blog Jonathon Blackburn, volunteer wrangler for Blog — Program for ALA Annual Not quite sure what to do yet – social software something or other…. We need a name and brief blurb soon to get into the official ALA material – but viral marketing worked…
IG Chairs meeting
Introductions Bylaws and Organization – Margaret Kelly) Program Planning Committee – Rachel Cheng * PPC Liaison list handout (file will be linked when I get a copy) * PPC will make new guidelines for IG chairs with minimum program information and drop-dead deadline * PPC will refer other Divisional requests to IG chairs for co-sponsorship comments IG Communication – Email Lists, Blogs, Wiki, LITA site Official Organization Archive * The LITA site is still the official archive — IG (& Committee) Chairs please remember to fill out your meeting reports on the LITA site form Questions
LITA IG and ComChairs Meeting
Mary Taylor Happy Hour was a success yesterday with new members, old members, and people checking us out. At Annual, Happy Hour will be after the open house on Friday or Saturday. She introduces Mary Prentice who is the new Programs and Marketing Specialist for LITA. Bonnie Postlethwaite Use the wiki. There are spaces for the committee’s to contribute and help the wiki to grow. Currently the standards watch is upon the wiki. The town meeting, which will be run by Mark Beatty, will offer an opportunity for member to raise their concerns. Gail Clement Podcasting preconference yesterday was a success with good attendance. The speakers were wonderful and were a combination of both library and other types. She is currently working on a better way of document management so that our forms and other information we gather from our sessions can be kept in one place. It allows us…