LITA is beginning a series of informal discussions to let members voice their thoughts about the current strategic goals of LITA. The first couple of these “kitchen table talks,” lead by President Rachel Vacek and Vice-President Thomas Dowling, will take place online in September and October (details to follow), and will be followed by in-person dinners at the 2014 LITA Forum in Albuquerque. The kitchen table talks will discuss LITA’s strategic goals – collaboration and networking; education and sharing of expertise; advocacy; and infrastructure – and how meeting those goals will help LITA better serve you. The talks also align with ALA’s strategic planning process and efforts to communicate the association’s overarching goals of professional development, information policy, and advocacy. So if you’re coming to Forum (and you really should!), come have a bowl of green chile stew with Rachel or Thomas and let your voice be heard.
Category: ALA Midwinter Meetings
Plan to Attend 2014 LITA Forum, Albuquerque NM, Nov. 5-8, 2014
2014 LITA Forum Albuquerque, NM November 5-8, 2014 Registration Now Open! Plan now to join us in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at the Hotel Albuquerque for the 2014 LITA Forum, a three-day educational event that includes preconferences, general sessions, and more than 30 concurrent sessions. Registration is limited in order to preserve the important networking advantages of a smaller conference. Take advantage of the informal Thursday evening reception and Friday evening networking dinners to get to know LITA leaders, Forum speakers, and your colleagues. 2014 LITA Forum is the 17th annual gathering of technology-minded information professionals and is a highly regarded annual event for those involved in new and leading edge technologies in the library and information technology field. Comments from past attendees: “Best conference I’ve been to in terms of practical, usable ideas that I can implement at my library.” “I get so inspired by the presentations and conversations with…
LITA Board Midwinter 2014 Meeting #4
LITA Town Meeting, January 27, 2014
The LITA Town Meeting will take place on Monday January 27, 2014, from 8:30-10:00 am, EST. If you are able to attend in person, great! I’ll be happy to see you there! If not, I encourage you to participate remotely. Here are all the links you’ll need, no matter how or when you want to participate. Information on what we’re doing at the Town Meeting: http://litablog.org/2014/01/how-has-lita-made-your-life-awesome-tell-us-at-hashtag-becauselita/ The Tagboard where we are aggregating items with the hastag #becauseLITA: https://tagboard.com/becauselita The Google Doc containing the six different activites used during the Town Meeting: http://goo.gl/Jhnj50 The Google Doc where we are sharing our work: http://goo.gl/j5jgo9 Additional online resources for remote users: Create a comic with Bitstrips: http://bitstrips.com/create/comic/ Brainstorm: https://bubbl.us/ Make a chart: https://developers.google.com/chart/ Create a storyboard: http://studios.amazon.com/storyteller I want to emphasize that this activity is very different than the types of activities that we’ve previously done at Town Meetings. Here, we’re trying to…
LITA Board Midwinter 2014 Meeting #2
LITA Board Midwinter 2014 Livestream
How has LITA made your life awesome? Tell us at #becauseLITA
Are you a member of LITA? Has LITA helped you in any way? Perhaps you’ve taken an online workshop, attended a preconference, read a useful article in LITA’s journal, participated in a conference, expanded your professional network, or even just had fun socializing and interacting with colleagues interested in libraries and technology. If LITA has impacted your job or your career, we want to hear about it! How has LITA made your life awesome? Tweet, blog, use instagram, use facebook, make a video, record a sound byte, or use your favorite flavor of social media to share LITA’s impact on you and be sure to include the hashtag #becauseLITA. We are aggregating everything with that hashtag on our Tagboard. At this upcoming Midwinter Conference, an amazing team of LITA folk have been helping me, Rachel Vacek, your LITA Vice-President, plan the LITA Town Meeting on Monday, January 27th from 8:30-10:00…
Join us for LITA Happy Hour at ALA Midwinter
Please join the LITA Membership Development Committee and members from around the country for networking, good cheer, and great fun! Expect lively conversation and excellent drinks. Cash Bar. Sunday, January 26, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Bar-ly, Chinatown; 101 N. 11th St, Philadelphia; (215) 922-2688
LITA Offering two full-day workshops in Philadelphia
LITA is offering two Midwinter Workshops on Friday, January 24, 8:30 am – 4:00 pm in Philadelphia. Strategic Social Media: Creating Library Community Online will be presented by Doralyn Rossmann, Scott Young, Angela Tate, and Mary Anne Hansen of Montana State University Library. Presenters will go beyond the basics by demonstrating how to create a social media guide for developing communities on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, Pinterest, and Foursquare. Find ways to integrate social media efforts into your organization’s strategic plan and to establish best practices and assessment methodologies. Emphasis includes creating a meaningful voice and a compelling personality. Level Up Web: Modern Web Development and Management Practices for Libraries will be presented by Nina McHale and Christine Coughlan of Aten Design Group (CO). Topics will include: how to launch and execute a user-centric discovery and design process; content strategy; web governance and staffing; information architecture; managing a web environment/CMS; iterative development; and version control. Attendees will leave with tailored plans, covering…
Tell us what you envision for LITA
Were you unable to attend LITA’s Town Meeting at Midwinter 2013 in Seattle? We would still like to hear from you! Please take a few minutes to complete this survey and give the LITA leadership your thoughts on what works in LITA and what you’d like to see LITA become. Not a LITA member? No worries, we want to hear from you, too! Thank you from your friendly, neighborhood VP. 🙂