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LITA Meetings and Events, Midwinter 2011 FRIDAY, JANURY 7 Meeting Creating Library Web Services: Mashups and APIs
Time 9:00 am- 4:30 pm
Location SDCC-Room 24 A
Description del.icio.us subject guides, Flickr library displays, YouTube library orientation; with mashups and APIs, it's easier to bring pieces of the web together with library data. Learn what an API is and what it does, the components of web services, how to build a mashup, how to work with PHP, and how to create web services for your library. Participants should be comfortable with HTML markup and have an interest in learning about web scripting and programming and are encouraged to bring a laptop for hands-on participation. Open source content management systems present an opportunity for libraries to distribute content creation and maintenance and add Web 2.0 features to library websites. This workshop will provide an overview of several content management systems, compare and contrast system functionality and features, and demonstrate how open source CMSs can be used to enhance library websites. Bring your laptop to explore and compare basic installations of WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal CMSs.
Open Source CMS Playroom
9:00 am- 4:30 pm
SDCC-Room 24 B
Executive Committee Membership Committee LITA 201
10:30 am - 11:30 am 1:30 pm -3:30 pm 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
SDCC-Room 01 B SDCC-Room 19 SDCC-Room 01 A
Assessment and Research Committee Electronic Resources Management Interest Group LITA Happy Hour
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
SDCC-Room 19 SDCC-Room 25 C
SATURDAY, JANUARY 8 Joint Committees and Interest Groups Chairs Meeting Interest Group Chairs Committee Chairs Meeting Board of Directors Digital Libraries Interest Group MARBI Committee
8:00 am - 9:00 am 9:00 am - 10:00 am 9:00 am - 10:00 am 9:30 am - 12 noon 10:30 am - 12:00 noon 10:30 am - 12:00 noon
SDCC-Room 32 A/B SDCC-Room 32 A/B SDCC-Room 32 A/B SDCC-Room 11 B HIL-Aqua 300 MAR-Marriott Hall 4
Distance Learning Interest Group
10:30 am - 12:00 noon HIL-Aqua 308
The World (and Jason Griffey) Interviews Vernor Vinge
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
SDCC-Room 29 A-D
Bylaws and Organization Committee Publications Committee JPEG2000 Interest Group
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Standards Interest Group
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
National Forum Planning 2011Committee
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
HIL-Sapphire Boardrm SDCC-Room 31 B The JPEG2000 Interest Group will meet at the ALA Midwinter meeting to discuss upcoming programming options, discuss MAR-Warner Center implementations of the standard, and provide a forum for those using or interested in the standard to share information. All are welcome. To provide a forum for leaders from libraries, vendors and standards organizations to discuss the development of standards MAR-Encinitas relating to library and information technology. MAR-Balboa
LITA 201 is a general orientation to involvement in LITA. Join us, and learn how active involvement in LITA can help you better meet the challenges of today and troubleshoot the challenges of tomorrow. Join us for LITA 201 at Midwinter 2011 to: -Learn more about LITA and where you fit -Become or find a mentor -Form your own interest group -Network with tech-savvy library colleagues
Opensource electronic resources management solutions. 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.
MARBI (Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information) is an interdivisional committee of ALA, encompassing ALCTS, LITA, and RUSA. Its mission is to encourage the creation of needed standards, review and evaluate proposed standards, recommend approval of standards in conformity with ALA policy, establish a mechanism for continuing review of standards, provide commentary on the content of various implementations of standards to concerned agencies, and maintain liaison with concerned units within ALA and relevant outside agencies. The Distance Learning Interest Group's midwinter meeting will be an opportunity to discuss issues in distance learning librarianship, and also a chance to meet up with like-minded librarians. The meeting will wrap up with a discussion about what members want the interest group to be and accomplish in the next year. The work of Vernor Vinge pushes information and technology to its incredible, but possible, conclusions. In A Fire UponThe Deep and A Deepness in the Sky, Vinge examines the concept of the technological singularity, a theoretical point where machine intelligence overtakes human intelligence, and does so in ways that play with information systems and processes. In Rainbows End, Vinge explores one potentially very real future for libraries in which we live in a world of complete information immersion. Come and see Jason Griffey interview Vernor Vinge; futurist, author, thinker, and visionary. Sponsored by LITA’s Imagineering Interest Group.
MARC Formats Interest Group (ALCTS LITA)
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
SDCC-Room 26 A/B
Will RDA Mean the Death of MARC? The end of the MARC formats has been predicted for years, but no alternative format has risen up to challenge MARC. Will the introduction of the new RDA code precipitate the demise of MARC? Will RDA require the description of content and functionality that cannot be accommodated by the MARC formats, or that can be more easily accommodated by alternative content formats? If so, what format(s) will replace MARC? And if MARC does continue to thrive, how will it have to change to accommodate the new content descriptions in RDA?
Drupal Interest Group
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
SDCC-Room 04
The Drupal Interest Group provides a forum and support network for people who are currently using or who are planning to use the Drupal Content Management System. The meeting at Midwinter will be an open forum for all topics related to Drupal.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 9 Bylaws and Organization Committee International Relations Committee Technology and Access Committee Public Libraries Technology Interest Group
8:00 am - 10:00 am 8:00 am - 10:00 am 8:00 am - 10:00 am 8:00 am - 10:00 am
HIL-Colbalt 520 HIL-Aqua 305 HIL-Aqua Boardrm HIL-Sapphire 402
Top Technology Trends (Discussion Meeting) Top Tech Trends Business Meeting Heads of Library Techology Interest Group
8:00 am - 10:00 am SDCC-Room 26 A/B 10:30 am - 12:00 noon HIL-Colbalt 520 10:30 am - 12:00 noon WEST-Santa Fe
Library Consortia and Systems Interest Group
10:30 am - 12:00 noon HIL-Indigo 202 B
Program Planning Committee Next Generation Catalog Interest Group
10:30 am - 12:00 noon HIL-Indigo B 10:30 am - 12:00 noon HIL-Sapphire M
Emerging Technologies Interest Group
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
SDCC-Room 25 C
Internet Resources and Services Interest Group
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
SDCC-Room 01 B
Cloud Computing and Virtualization Interest Group Mobile Computing Interest Group Web Coordinating Committee MARBI Committee
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm
SDCC-Room 27 B SDCC-Room 31 A SDCC-Room 24 B MAR-Marriott Hall 4
Open Source Interest Group
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
SDCC-Room 31 C
Blog and Wiki Interest Group (BIGWIG)
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
SDCC-Room 28 B
Education Committee Nominating 2012 Election Kilgour Award Committee
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
SDCC-Room 10 HIL-Aqua 311 HIL-Aqua 309
The Public Library Technology Interest Group meeting starts with a “Coffee with the Experts” session, which will be a peer networking even focusing on current hot technology topics. Share your experiences, and learn from others over a cup of coffee. A general business meeting will follow. LITA Top Technology Trends Moderated Discussion HOLT provides a forum and support network for people with administrative responsibility for computing and technology in a library setting. The meeting will include introductions and announcements, discussion of LITA and HoLT business and an update on programming for Annual. Discussion will include solicitation for the upcoming Vice Chair position, followed by HoLTTalk, a round-table discussion of current IT issues facing attendees. The Library Consortia and Systems Interest Group is an open discussion of technologies, trends, and issues that face libraries and library systems within a consortial environment. David Lindahl, an executive director of eXtensible Catalog (XC), will discuss how XC transforms legacy metadata formats towards FRBR, RDA, and linked-data environments and integrates any ILS with any next generation catalog. Participants are encouraged to share local projects to incorporate linked data into their library catalogs and to relate the benefits of moving data into more web-friendly formats. Discussion on Emerging Technologies libraries should be monitoring and discussion on program for ALA Annual 2011. Discuss new and emerging Internet technologies. Discuss the planning for the 2011 ALA Annual Ultimate Debate: “Library Web Scale Discovery Services: Paradigm Shift or More of the Same?” Mobile Computing Interest Group – the demonstration of 3-4 different mobile frameworks MARBI (Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information) is an interdivisional committee of ALA, encompassing ALCTS, LITA, and RUSA. Its mission is to encourage the creation of needed standards, review and evaluate proposed standards, recommend approval of standards in conformity with ALA policy, establish a mechanism for continuing review of standards, provide commentary on the content of various implementations of standards to concerned agencies, and maintain liaison with concerned units within ALA and relevant outside agencies. The OSS IG will discuss trends in open source library systems and plan for Annual 2011, and will reserve some meeting time for IG members and visitors to share their news about open source implementations and other items of interest. The business meeting for BIGWIG will focus on planning for the next Showcase at Annual. We’ll also talk about communication, getting involved in BIGWIG, and any other cool ideas people have for working with other groups in LITA or ALA.
MONDAY, JANUARY 10 LITA Town Meeting
8:00 am - 10:00 am
RFID Interest Group
10:30 am - 12:00 noon SDCC-Room 27 A
Information Technology and Libraries Editorial Board National Forum 2012 Planning Committee MARBI Committee
10:30 am - 12:00 noon GASLAMP-Bayside 10:30 am - 12:00 noon SDCC-Room 24 C 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm MAR-Marriott Hall 4
Transliteracy Interest Group Imagineering Interest Group Board of Directors Meeting
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Hotel Abbreviations San Diego Convention Center – SDCC Embassy Suites – EMB Hilton Bayfront – HIL Hilton Gaslamp – GASLAMP Horton Grand – HORTON Manchester Grand Hyatt – GRAND San Diego Marriott and Marina – MAR Westin Gaslamp – WEST
SDCC-Room 01 A
SDCC-Room 24 C SDCC-Room 24 B SDCC-Room 11 B
LITA President-Elect Colleen Cuddy will address how LITA is putting the new strategic plan into action. Committee chairs and fellow LITA board members will be on hand to update membership on initiatives underway to reach some of the goals outlined in the plan. Members will have an opportunity to respond to and suggest future directions and approaches for reaching LITA’s goals and objectives. Your input as a LITA member in the discussion about how LITA operates in today’s world is very important to the success of the organization. This will be an open dialog on the status of RFID in libraries. I will be soliciting feedback from libraries on additional topics.
MARBI (Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information) is an interdivisional committee of ALA, encompassing ALCTS, LITA, and RUSA. Its mission is to encourage the creation of needed standards, review and evaluate proposed standards, recommend approval of standards in conformity with ALA policy, establish a mechanism for continuing review of standards, provide commentary on the content of various implementations of standards to concerned agencies, and maintain liaison with concerned units within ALA and relevant outside agencies. First meeting of transliteracy interest group will be a round-table style discussion of the future and goals of the group.
