Where and how should LITA provide support for development of technology skills? Audio Stream Broadcasting live with Ustream Join the Chat
LITA Town Meeting 2012 – Leadership Skills
How LITA can provide support for developing leadership skills in emerging technology leader? Live stream by Ustream Join the Chat
LITA Town Meeting 2012 – Values
What is the value that participation in professional associations in general and LITA in particular provide? Audio Stream Free live streaming by Ustream Join the Chat
What is LITA?
At our meeting on Friday, the LITA board (your board!) conducted an exercise to craft an updated vision statement for our organization. We started out by thinking of organizations that inspire us and listing the attrubites that we admire about that organization. Some people talked about non-profits, some about online businesses or communities and some about their current or former places of work. Again and again, we came back to the idea that the people make the organization. To that end, we tried to come up with a short statement to describe our vision for LITA. Give it a test-drive and let us know what you think. Is this your LITA? We welcome comments and suggestions! LITA: Libraries. Innovation. Technology. Awesomeness: Choose your own adventure!* We probably knew this on the day of the meeting, but “Choose Your Own Adventure” is a registered trademark, so this is probably a good…
Town Meeting Monday! Please join us online or in Dallas
To all LITA Members – current, past and future and Friends of LITA: You are invited to virtually join the LITA members present in Dallas for the LITA Town Meeting – Monday 1/23 from 8-10am CST. Instructions and links for how to participate virtually will be posted to the LITA Blog (http://litablog.org) approximate 30 minutes before the session starts. We will be using UStream (audio only) and ALA Connect Chat to facilitate virtual participation. We will stream the audio for the outbound channel – so virtual participants can hear the general introduction and overview and then break out into three streams – one on each topic – so that the discussion in the room can be heard. Remote participants can log in to ALA Connect (http://connect.ala.org/) chat to send questions and comments to a discussion moderator who will share those with the participants in the room. No account is required…
Top Tech Trends @ ALA Midwinter 2012
We’re streaming Top Tech Trends from ALA Midwinter 2012! Join us, ask questions, and enjoy. If you’d like to chime in on Twitter, the hashtag is #alamwttt Live video from your Android device on Ustream
LITA Board I – Midwinter 2012
EDIT: We will start the stream as soon as we work out Wifi issue. Please be patient. 🙂 LITA Board will be streaming both Board meetings from ALA Midwinter 2012, you can find them here or directly on the LITA Ustream channel. Live video by Ustream
2012 LITA National Forum Call for Proposals
The 2012 National Forum Committee seeks proposals for high quality pre-conferences, concurrent sessions and poster sessions for the 15th annual LITA National Forum to be held in Columbus, OH, October 3 – October 7, 2012. The 2012 theme is: New World of Data: Discover. Connect. Remix. The Forum Committee is interested in pre-conferences and presentations about projects, plans or discoveries in areas of library-related technologies related to the identification, location, harvesting, harnessing, use, misuse, preservation and loss of data of all types and all formats in dynamic and emerging web environments. We welcome proposals related to all types of libraries: public, school, academic, government, special and corporate. Proposals on any aspect of library and information technology are solicited. View and download the complete call for proposals [pdf]. Due Date for proposals: February 17, 2012 Submit proposals to: http://lib.skidmore.edu/library/LITA_Proposal.html
Job in Library Technology: January 11
New vacancy listings are posted weekly and appear under New This Week and under the appropriate regional listing. Postings remain on the LITA Job Site for a minimum of four weeks. New Posting: Senior Software Developer (Digital Libraries), Alexander Street Press, Alexandria, VA Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for information on submitting a job posting.
LITA President-Elect Zoe Stewart-Marshall hosts the LITA Town Meeting
WHEN: Monday, January 23, 8:00 am – 10:00 am, Dallas Convention Center, D220 Meet your fellow LITA members, and participate in a conversation about how LITA responds to and involves its membership in the larger information, association, community-building, and technology-related landscape. LITA, like most of the library community, faces many challenges that strike at the heart of what it means to be a member of LITA and ALA. Meet members of the LITA Board and provide input regarding: the value that participation in professional associations in general and LITA in particular provide; how LITA can provide support for developing leadership skills in emerging technology leaders; where and how should LITA provide support for development of technology skills and other questions that are brought forward by the membership. We welcome and encourage the open participation of all LITA members, and potential LITA members, in this meeting with the goal of strengthening…