Karen’s Uber-Trend
I’m tempted to respond in kind to some of the lively posts about Top Tech Trends I’ve read on this blog. But I don’t have much to add about web services, the eternally backwards ILS, or...
View ArticleDiscount WiFi at McCormick
Wifi at McCormick Center can be purchased for $25 for the entire ALA conference (June 24-29) by going to Conference Services. I know this was posted to a couple of lists earlier, but I just got IM’ed...
View ArticleA Very Long Tail Indeed
Note: expect a lag on many LITA blog postings, since Internet access is sparse and spotty (wifi in McCormick is only available in three spots, and many of us will be covering events in hotels we...
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Oh! Obama!
(n.b. Man oh man, you LITA bloggers rock!) If it weren’t for Heidi I know I wouldn’t be sitting here live-blogging the Opening General Session, because my brain wanted to be here but my body was...
View ArticleLITA President’s Program
I was intrigued by the opening questions Michael Lesk posed in the LITA President’s Program. “Notwithstanding technical, economic, or legal obstacles, how much will people want to read online? And...
View ArticleMany people here!
Total registration for this conference is over 25,596–about 5,000 more than Orlando (last year’s annual conference). ALA staff are looking up stats to see if this is the record.
View ArticleThe Delicate Process Dance
(Btw: we have over 80 posts on this blog. Woohoo!) I’m sitting here in ALA Council listening to discussion about the recommendations from the Task Force on Library School Closings. Earlier today I...
View ArticleKeep Those Cards and Letters Coming…
Most of you (except Poor Pitiful LITA Councilor) are back at work and dealing with the onslaught of post-conference catch-up. But know that your conference posts have been appreciated, read, and...
View ArticleLITA Councilor’s Report
[Updates underscored] Council 3 wrapped up at 12:15 on June 29, very timely and very congenial. Over our three Council meetings we had several items on the agenda that are very LITA-relevant. I will...
View ArticleClarification on danah boyd’s comments about Roy’s talk
Just clarifying that danah boyd didn’t attend Roy’s talk; she based her comments on an assessment of the program synopsis on the LITA website. (I couldn’t attend Roy’s talk, either, due to a major site...
View ArticleUtilizing the Benefits of Native XML Database Technologies
Before the talk, some of us joked about the phrase “native XML†and how XML could be indigenous, immigrant, etc. It turns out we weren’t that far off: native XML refers to when the XML document...
View ArticleThe Bloggers’ Get-Together
Don’t worry about there being “too many” people at the bloggers’ get-together at the Paragon tonight. We’re going to show up, take over the bar, blog and have fun, and if they run out of room we’ll...
View ArticleGreat Bloggers’ Soiree
A big gaggle of us lounged around the Paragon. If you’re in San Jose tomorrow evening and you don’t feel like cabbing to Santana Row, the Paragon is a comfy and elegant choice for cocktails. Energies...
View ArticleBIGWIG Meeting Sat 1:30
BIGWIG has its IG meeting scheduled for Saturday, 1:30-3:30, RIV Bonham. Do you have agenda items? One perennial favorite, btw, is “why don’t we post between conferences?” I have my own 2 cents on that...
View ArticleWhat’s Happening, Midwinter 2006
By popular demand, I have uploaded the marvelous “What’s Happening” preconference update that until Roy Tennant slipped me a box of Godiva chocolates was a strictly hush-hush document shared only...
View ArticleLITA Gets It
These aren’t really notes from the Saturday LITA Board meeting (my third meeting today so far). This is just my observation, as an ALA politico, that LITA is a breath of fresh air in ALA. I was just at...
View ArticleTrends from the Littlest Trendster
I wanted to post my Grand Summation before TTT met this morning, but I had launched my questions on my personal blog and people were commenting through yesterday. I was reluctant to draw the line and...
View ArticleBIGWIG Meeting
To our shame, Clara and I completely forgot to ask anyone to blog the BIGWIG meeting, let alone take pictures of your smiling faces. Not only that, we’ve been on rollerskates since then and have had...
View ArticleWeb Advisory Committee, the Dues Increase, and TANSTAAFL
Michelle Frisque, ALA WAC chair, will no doubt have far more fulsome coverage of this meeting later on, but as a WAC member, I wanted to share that we said our piece to Jim Rettig, ALA Executive Board...
View ArticleLITA Blog Combined Feed
Sing ho for Kevin, Kevin ho! Last fall, Kevin Clarke set up a combined RSS feed for the LITA Blog that updates when a comment is added to a post (as well as when a post is added), and it’s truly...
View ArticleBig Thanks to BIGWIG Machers
Michelle Boule, LITA Blog Scheduling Maven, has again done a great job (and keep those Midwinter posts coming fast and furious, folks!). We had dozens of high-quality posts which serve as info-tainment...
View ArticlePodcast Test
We’re testing the LITA blog to make sure our feeds properly handle media enclosures (podcasts and whatnot). The podcast isn’t very interesting, but here it is: LITA Blog Podcast Check. It should show...
View ArticleFlickr with LITA!
Ladies and gentlemen, charge your camera phones! Any erstwhile bloggers, LITA Exec/Board types, sundry LITA members, or staff who would like to post to LITA’s Flickr account, give me or Michelle Boule...
View ArticleMy Trends… I know I put them somewhere
I did a rather belated, cryptic post on my personal blog, Free Range Librarian, but though it refers to something Eric brought up–a certain welcome restlessness with the state of “library automation,”...
View ArticleThe ALA Cone of Confusion
This is the part of the conference where someone usually says, “Well… not too many posts yet on the LITA blog, ay?” And I usually mumble something like “soon you’ll see more,” and then the posts do...
View ArticleProgram: Next Stop Blogging
Despite the crowded Monday 10:30 a.m. time slot, this program was packed to the gills, with over 160 in attendance and many more possible attendees who wandered up and then away as they saw how full...
View ArticleIt’s Trend Time Again
With my mind distracted by a new job, I feel my trends are a bit watery. However, a few readers have vastly improved what I will bring to the table, and I encourage you to keep putting lipstick on my...
View ArticleTrends from K.G. Schneider
I just posted my trends over at Free Range Librarian. I realize I left off OPACs, after writing about them all fall. I’ll keep those thoughts as a extra-speshul treat for our meeting this Sunday...
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