Because the connectivity was so good this year for Top Tech Trends at ALA Midwinter 2009, we were able to use Ustream to live stream the video. That also means that it’s archived by Ustream, and embeddable….so here it is! The entire Top Tech video, to watch at your leisure! We’ll also have an audio-only download/Podcast coming in the next few days, for those that want to listen on the go. If you have other suggestions for where this should be posted, or if you embed the video somewhere, let us know!
Category: 2009
LITA Program Planning Comittee (PPC)
Topic discussed: Schedule corrections for Imagineering and Public Libraries & Technology Interest Groups Program planing submission process. We need to streamline the process, remove the manual process and cange it with a web-based form if possible, and have it ready by Annual 2009 for 2010 program submission. At this point, it might be difficult to achieve it in six months if we rely on ALA IT to build the infrastructure for us. A working group would be established to assess and provide recommendations Program proposal work flow. The PPC committee would like to see if individuals could submit a program proposal without going through formal Interest Group channel. Another working group would be created to research and provide recommendations. LITA Manual section 10 on Programs at ALA Annual Conference and how to make the manual more user friendly. A group of PPC members would look into this. Looking at possibility…
Top Tech Trends from Karen Coombs
Its Top Tech Trend time again. Every time I’m asked to come up with trends I sort of get a pit in the bottom of my stomach. How to choose trends? Should I choose tech things that have changed they way I think about technology this year? How specific or narrow should my trends me? How accessible to non-techies Also, I worry about getting a diversity of opinions and people feeling they the trends the trendsters put forward are too general or obvious. Picking trend is hard for all these reasons, plus you don’t want to pick something that turns out to not really be a trend. So, this time I’m categorizing my trends a bit. My personal A-HA trend Web applications which are extremely flexible, versatile and extendable. For me the app that has typified this in my work this year is Drupal. Drupal is a veritable swiss army…
Top Tech Trends from Sarah Houghton-Jan
I’m not able to be there at the session, but I’m sharing my top trends below. Please add your own thoughts in the comments section. Discussions often bring out the best in all of us! The Art of Web Presence Maintenance With libraries extending their web presences out beyond the borders of their own websites proper, the coordination and successful maintenance of these presences has become a skill in its own right. How to successfully leverage a Facebook page for your library? How to successfully use Wikipedia to promote your library’s services? On which sites should you be present? How to successfully use YouTube for library videocasts? The list goes on and on. The skills include the ability to creatively manage your different presences, updating them when appropriate, keeping information current, participating in new sites when warranted, and deleting outdated presences. More libraries are designating people other than their traditional…
Public Libraries Technology Interest Group Midwinter 2009
Meeting had a nice surprise of some new faces… with 15 people in attendance. Yea! What can you see as usefulness of a group like PLTIG? We had a lively discussion on some ideas: Competencies in technology in small & rural libraries … survey being done by Emerging Leaders. Roving Service model and the types of technologies that would support that development. This could be a place where the technical and non-technical could connect. Table talks where you could learn from an expert … Want to listen to what other libraries are doing. Look into webinars for sharing the information/content Training structures for libraries (drop-in training and mobile technology … e.g. I-touch) ACRL pre-conference on how to set up Facebook Apps; search plug-ins; widget box; Google gadgets; libex toolbar; Sometimes it’s the little libraries and how they are “making do” with smaller budgets & smaller population density… so how does…
Top Tech Trends LiveBlog
Join the live blog of Top Tech Trends on Sunday, 8am-10am (MST). Follow the conversation, post questions and comments, and view multimedia content of the session.
Emerging Leaders – Class of 2009 – Orientation Session
From 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM the Class of 2009 Emerging Leaders met to learn about their assigned projects, meet with their groups, and learn about the expected outcomes of the program. Presentations by Leslie Berger, Maureen Sullivan, Connie Paul, and Peter Bromberg taught lessons on leadership and working in virtual teams. Jim Rettig and Keith Fiels also stopped by to offer their thoughts on the impact of the Emerging Leaders program within ALA. A brief synopsis of their talks follows, but you can also view their PowerPoint presentations by visiting: http://wikis.ala.org/emergingleaders/index.php/2009_Emerging_Leaders_Program All of the speeches and leadership lessons were interesting and dynamic. However, long blog posts sometimes are not, so below you find the key points and lessons from the talks: Leslie Berger spoke on leadership and what she hoped the Emerging Leaders would gain and also give back to ALA. Her key points included the following: – Ask…
NGCIG Meeting: Interoperability of Next Generation Catalogs and Users
The LITA Next Generation Catalog Interest Group will meet on Sunday, January 25, 4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. in Colorado Convention Center Room 110 We will have presentations and discussion about two examples of recent next generation catalog endeavors. Beth Jefferson (Founder of Bibliocommons) will share real world examples and implications of “Transforming online library catalogs from searchable inventory systems into engaging social discovery environmentsâ€. John Mark Ockerbloom, University of Pennsylvania Libraries and chair of the Digital Library Federation’s ILS-DI Task Group will “Outline the DLF ILS-DI recommendations, describe some of the activities inspired by or related to the recommendations, and discuss what fruit they can bearâ€. The demand for new ways for users to discover relevant library resources has grown tremendously in the past few years. Application development and deployment has been limited, however, by the need to interoperate with any of a variety of integrated library systems. In…
"What's happening at Midwinter"
For each conference, ergo biannually, ALA insiders and ALA staff route information about what’s happening in their area(s) of the Association to Mary Ghikas, who attempts to make sense of it all. The result of all this effort is a ~30 page document deatiling some of the major goings-on at a given conference/meeting. I’ve found these handy since I “discovered” these three or so conferences ago. Midwinter 2009‘s “What’s Happening“document is now available [PDF].
Midwinter Map
Following in the steps of the BIGWIG Google Calendar for LITA’s Midwinter activities, here’s a Google Map of the Midwinter places, populated by BIGWIG and friends. Thanks, as always, to Cindi for getting the maps for ALA Conferences started. View Larger Map