OPENING Gregg Sylvis, Chair for the LITA Top Trends Committee kicked off the session. Six panelists were each to address current trends, imminent trends and long term trends (3-5 years out). John Blyberg, Darien Library (CT), Assistant Director for Innovation and User Experience Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President OCLC Research and Chief Strategist, OCLC Jason Griffey, Head of Library Information Technology, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Monique Sendze, IT Director Johnson County Library, Overland Park, Kansas Cindy Trainor, Coordinator for Library Technology and Data Services, Eastern Kentucky University Joan Frye Williams, IT Consultant CURRENT TRENDS Blyberg discussed the new world of “multilevel convergent media.” With the explosion of new devices and communication channels, people are finding new ways to describe, explain, and interact with the world around them, and the boundaries between personal and professional domains have been blurring. This has paved the way for a move to devices that are optimized across multiple applications to support diverse communication and information sharing needs….
Category: Top Technology Trends
Top Tech Trends LiveBlog
Join us Sunday, June 27, 2010 for the Top Technology Trends panel. The session will be live-blogged by TTT committee members; the live blog will also capture any messages posted to twitter with the hashtag #ttt10. LITA Top Tech Trends 2010 Watch the video
Top Tech Trends at PLA National Conference
LITA is headed to the 2010 PLA National Conference in Portland, OR for a Top Tech Trends panel focused on public libraries. Panelists include David Lee King, Michael Porter, Monique Sendze, and Kate Sheehan. LITA’s Top Tech Trends session will also be part of PLA’s Virtual Conference, consisting of live programming chosen from among the highest rated in PLA’s session preference survey. The Virtual Conference will feature panel discussions, author interviews, interactive workshops, and chats with colleagues, all from the comfort of your computer. Check out the LITA web site for information on LITA Happy Hour and Exhibit Booth hours at PLA. Visit the PLA Conference site for more information and registration.
Live coverage of the Top Tech Trends MW 2010 Discussion
Update: did you listen, watch, read or attend? Give us your feedback! 1/24/10 update – Alas, we did not manage to capture the audio, as we had intended, but you can read an abridged summary of the conversation and see all the links shared during the session thanks to one of our committee members. The live blog, comments, and tweets tagged #alamwttt can be viewed below. Join the LITA Top Technology Trends Committee on Sunday, January 17, 2010, 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. E.S.T. for a lively discussion of top technology trends in librarianship, with panelists Amanda Etches-Johnson, Jason Griffey, Joe Murphy, Lauren Pressley, and David Walker. The discussion will be moderated by Gregg Silvis. LITA Top Tech Trends Midwinter 2010
LITA Top Tech Trends at Midwinter in Boston
It’s that time again, folks; the semi-annual Top Technology Trends conversation is upon us. This year’s midwinter has us enjoying the history and chill of Boston, but like the last midwinter Top Tech discussion in Denver, you can participate from the warmth of your living room or from wherever you may be, a week from this Sunday. WHERE: Boston Convention Center (BCEC-162A/B), here at litablog.org, from ustream.tv, or via Twitter (#alamwttt) links to follow soon! WHEN: Sunday, January 17, 2010, 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. E.S.T. The start of the second decade of the century starts with five Trendsters who are new to the Top Tech Table: Amanda Etches-Johnson, User Experience Librarian at McMaster University Jason Griffey, Head of Library Information Technology at University of Tennessee, Chattanooga Joe Murphy, Science Librarian, Yale University Lauren Pressley, Instructional Design Librarian, Wake Forest University David Walker, Web Services Librarian, California State University System…
Marshall's Top Tech Trends for ALA Annual, Summer 2009
These trends are also posted on Library Technology Guides. Discovery Interfaces Expand Scope The genre of Discovery Interfaces has been an ongoing trend for the last few years. These interfaces aim to replace the traditional, stodgy OPAC with a modern interface, delivering library content through an interface more consistent with what patrons experience elsewhere on the Web. They offer visually appealing design, relevancy ranking, faceted navigation, and other standard Web navigation techniques. These products offer an attractive replacement for the online catalogs delivered with the ILS. The initial phase of this genre of products delivered a new interface. Yet, they remained largely tied to the content managed in the ILS, despite the ever increasing investments in electronic content. In many cases, a federated search component would aim to supplement the primarily print content of the ILS with a clumsy mechanism for accessing e-journals and database. We’re now seeing a new…
LiveBlog for Top Tech Trends 2009
Live Streaming by Ustream.TV Join us in person at the Intercontinental Grand Ballroom, Sunday afternoon at 1:30, or remotely via CoverItLive below. Top Tech Trends, ALA 2009 Pop-out RSS
Top Tech Trends for ALA Annual, Summer 2009
This is a list of Top Tech Trends for the ALA Annual Meeting, Summer 2009. Green computing The amount of computing that gets done on our planet has a measurable carbon footprint, and many of us, myself included, do not know exactly how much heat our computers put off and how much energy they consume. With the help from some folks from the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Research Computing, I learned my laptop computer spikes at 30 watts on boot, slows down to 20 watts during normal use, idles at 2 watts during sleep, and zooms up to 34 watts when the screen saver kicks in. Just think how much energy and heat your computer consumes and generates while waiting for the nightly update from your systems department. But realistically, it is our servers that make the biggest impact, and while energy consumption is one way to be…
Top Tech Trends – Midwinter 2009 Audio edition
This time around for Top Tech Trends we were able to stream the video, but we weren’t ignoring the audio either! Here’s just an MP3 of the session, edited a tiny bit for length and able to be loaded on to your favorite portable audio player. I apologize in advance for too much keypress noise on the recording. I was monitoring the sound, but couldn’t hear the fact that my typing was so loud! Sorry if that annoys anyone. In any case, here we are: LITA Top Tech Trends from ALA Midwinter 2009!
LJ gives kudos to Top Tech
LJ gives commentary and congratulations to Top Tech Trends for its innovative live broadcasting of this Midwinter’s conversation with LITA trendsters, and sees a model for future ALA events and conferences.