LITA IG plans at Midwinter 2009
Seven of the 17 LITA Interest Groups responded to repeated requests for their plans at the 2009 ALA Midwinter Meeting. You’ll find those plans here, on the LITA Wiki. One of the other ten IGs has since...
View ArticleLITA Workshop in Denver
LITA is offering User Centered Design for Digital Projects prior to ALA’s Midwinter meeting in Denver on Friday, January 23, 2009, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm. Learn about design process for managing digital...
View ArticleLITA Happy Hour in Denver
Friday, January 23, 2009, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Please join the LITA Membership Development Committee and members from around the country for networking, good cheer, and great fun! Expect lively...
View ArticleLITA Town Meeting
LITA President-Elect Michelle Frisque invites LITA members to the LITA Town Meeting, Monday, January 26, 2009, 8:00 am – 10:00 am, Colorado Convention Center, Korbel Ballroom 2C. Meet your fellow LITA...
View ArticleEric Lease Morgan's Top Tech Trends for ALA Mid-Winter, 2009
This is a list of “top technology trends” written for ALA Mid-Winter, 2009. They are presented in no particular order. Indexing with Solr/Lucene works well – Lucene seems to have become the gold...
View ArticleSpecial ALA Membership Meeting Called
A special membership town hall meeting has been called for Saturday, January 24th, 2009 from 3:00 to 4:30 in the Colorado Convention Center Four Seasons Ballroom. (which is also where ALA Council...
View ArticleMidwinter 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...
View Article"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...
View ArticleNGCIG 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...
View ArticleEmerging 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...
View ArticleTop Tech Trends LiveBlog
We’ll be live blogging the conversation with the Top Tech trendsters on Sunday morning from 8-10am (Mountain Standard Time). Watch this post! Follow all the discussion and join in to make comments or...
View ArticlePublic 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...
View ArticleTop 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...
View ArticleTop 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...
View ArticleLITA 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...
View ArticleTop Tech Trends Midwinter 2009 Video
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...
View ArticleLiveblog of LITA Town Hall Meeting Midwinter '09
Join us virtually at the LITA Town Hall Meeting. If you’re in Denver, we’re in Korbel 2C. LITA Town Hall Meeting MW 2009 Pop Out
View ArticleWeb Coordinating Committee Midwinter 2009 Meeting Report
DATE: 1/25/2009 GROUP: Web Coordinating Committee CHAIR: Jean Rainwater REPORTER: Jean Rainwater CONFERENCE: Midwinter MEETING: Committee meeting ATTENDEES: 8 CURRENT ACTIVITIES: At the Midwinter...
View ArticleLJ gives kudos to Top Tech
In its usual coverage of highlights from the ALA Midwinter conference, Library Journal’s Academic Newswire shares a little love for Sunday morning’s Top Tech Trends discussion. In a two-part article,...
View ArticleLITA Town Meeting Update
I want to thank everyone who participated in this years LITA Town Hall meeting and remind you that you can continue to participate on Twitter. I will continue to follow #litath09, the tag assigned to...
View ArticleTop 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...
View ArticleLITA Publications Committee
I’m posting an abbreviated report here because, from the look of it, the committee report form (which should show up on LITA-L) automagically combines all those carefully-prepared paragraphs into one...
View ArticleBrett Butler Entrepreneurship Award Committee: Midwinter 2009 Meeting Report
DATE: 1/23/2009 GROUP: LITA/Brett Butler Entrepreneurship Award CHAIR: Martin Halbert REPORTER: Martin Halbert CONFERENCE: Midwinter ATTENDEES: 5 CURRENT ACTIVITIES: The LITA Brett Butler Award...
View ArticleEducation Committee Midwinter 2009 Meeting Report
DATE: 1/24/2009 GROUP: Education Committee CHAIRS: David Ward, Mandy Havert REPORTER: David Ward CONFERENCE: Midwinter ATTENDEES: 12 CURRENT ACTIVITIES: LITA Education combined with Regional Institutes...
View ArticleTechnology & Access Committee Midwinter 2009 Meeting Report
DATE: 1/25/2009 GROUP: Technology and Access Committee CHAIR: David Nutty REPORTER: David Nutty CONFERENCE: Midwinter MEETING: Committee meeting ATTENDEES: 9 CURRENT ACTIVITIES: Planning for a program...
View ArticleAssessment & Research Committee Midwinter 2009 Meeting Report
DATE: 1/24/2009 GROUP: Assessment and Research Committee CHAIRS: Diane Bisom, Bonnie Postlethwaite REPORTER: Bonnie Postlethwaite CONFERENCE: Midwinter MEETING: Committee meeting ATTENDEES: 12 CURRENT...
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