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Sarah Houghton’s Top Technology Trends

Training the Patrons, Part Deux Libraries will continue to focus on training users on basic computer issues (e-mail, internet searching, how to use our resources) but more libraries will branch out...

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Opening General Session: Googlezon, Episode VI: Return of the Librarians

ROAR says the Googlezon! Roy Tennant from the California Digital Library opened the LITA Annual Forum with a rousing discussion of the Googlezon world takeover. The always engaging and enthusiastic Roy...

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The New Books List: An Open Source Software Case Study

Michael Doran from the University of Texas at Arlington presented this session about the process of creating, releasing, and licensing open-source software. You can reach Michael at doran@uta.edu or...

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Blogging Outloud: Shifts in Public Voice (Sarah Houghton’s take on it)

danah boyd (University of California at Berkeley, Yahoo, apophenia) spoke to a full room for Saturday’s opening session. She started by telling us that she was a bit disappointed by yesterday’s...

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Falling Down the Portal: Adventures in Federated Metasearch Technology

Katherine Dabbour and Lynn Lampert from California State University-Northridge presented to a large audience. The speakers began by noting that much as Alice stumbled into the rabbit hole, not caring...

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Bibliographic Control and the Web: An Oxymoron?

Michael Gorman (ALA President, California State University-Fresno) spoke to a full room just before the conference luncheon. Michael Gorman likes cataloging. His talk focused on the challenges of...

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Web Feeds: The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread!

Gerry McKiernan (Iowa State University Library) provided the audience with an introduction to RSS feeds and aggregators, especially their potential roles within libraries. McKiernan describes feeds as...

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Office for Information Technology Policy Update

Rick Weingarten and Carrie Lowe from the ALA Washington Office for Information Technology Policy presented on library and IT issues in the current political climate. E-Rate Library participation...

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Currency, Convenience and Access: RSS Technology Applied to Subscription...

John Law (ProQuest Information & Learning) and Karen Schneider (LII) spoke about the wonderful world of RSS to a full room on the last day of the conference. Karen Schneider did a fabulous job of...

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Information and the Quality of Life: Environmentalism for the Information Age...

David M. Levy (University of Washington) gave this closing keynote session for the conference. Levy began his talk by noting that many of us feel that life is out of balance somehow and that technology...

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Sarah Houghton’s Top Technology Trends

I am unable to attend ALA Midwinter again this year, but here are my top technology trends. Someone can read them in a big booming voice so it will sound impressive IM reference goes mainstream After...

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Sarah Houghton’s Top Technology Trends

I won’t be at ALA, but I’ll note three trends I see in full force: Returning Power Over Content to Those with the Knowledge Eric Lease Morgan touched on this in his second trend about blogs and wiki...

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Sarah Houghton-Jan’s Top Technology Trends

I won’t be able to join you all for the Top Technology Trends panel, but someone more worthy than I can read this in a good strong feminine voice, and hopefully he or she will be wearing black, so as...

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Some Trends from the LiB

I will not be at the ALA conference and as such won’t be able to participate live with the rest of the Top Technology Trends panel. But, that’s never stopped me before, so here are my predictions!...

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Sarah Houghton-Jan’s Top Tech Trends for 2008, ALA Midwinter

I have posted my Top Tech Trends on LibrarianInBlack.net. Feel free to comment either here or there (though actually reading the trends first is preferred).

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Top Technology Trends from Sarah Houghton-Jan, ALA 2008

I had a lovely time presenting virtually, despite the sound issues on all ends. It still was a rather successful demonstration of virtual participation, and I think that was wonderful. Big thanks to...

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Top 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...

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Top Technology Trends, NISO's "Identifiers Roundup", Electronic Resource...

Just when I needed it (e.g. the ALA convention) I found I had lost my credentials for the LITA Blog, so I’ve been posting summaries of meetings on a personal blog, the Disruptive Library Technology...

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Volunteers needed to help with privacy initiative

Are you interested in improving privacy in libraries all across the country? If so, we need your help! The recently-released ALA Library Privacy Guidelines are a great collection of the standards and...

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