I’m thrilled to announced that there is a Transliteracy Interest Group within the Library & Information Technology Association( LITA) division of the American Library Association (ALA). I think Tom said it best in his announcement: I often joke that I get more accomplished at conferences at the bar after the sessions are over than I do during the conference. Well, here is a rather clear result that began as a conversation over drinks I was in Boston for Midwinter and on the last day of the conference met some people including the fabulous Lisa Carlucci and Tom Ipri for drinks. Libraries and Transliteracy wasn’t even a blog then but Tom and I knew we wanted to promote the concept. Thanks to a suggestion and encouragement by Lisa we began working on the Interest Group. I was a little leery of putting it within LITA as people often think Transliteracy is just about technology and I was concerned this would only further confusion. But I think LITA is the best home for the group. We will continue to blog at Libraries and Transliteracy (keep your eyes open for some new authors!). We will be using ALA Connect for official Interest Group business, you do not need
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My Notes from LITA Top Tech Trends at ALA MidWinter
The panel consisted of David Walker, Amanda Etches-Johnson, Joe Murphy, Lauren Pressley, Jason Griffey and was moderated by Greg Silvis David Watson discovery systems to get the rss for a specific journal you need to visit the specific site or vendor, different silos for information, need to wait for vendors to create mobile system bring data together in aggregated system have one local for info if everything is all together in one place, books article etc does that really help students? are libraries giving up too much control to the cloud? Panel response Griffey – expected to see collapse of these databases and vendors fighting each other Etches – federated searching was a disaster, is discovery system better? David – system helps level playing field Amanda – user experience buzz word for 2009 People can’t agree on what it means, user experience design is about designing everything buildings etc, but interest for her (us) is web Visual design coupled with interactive design, how does that make our users feel? We aren’t ready to make our users feel we need to keep talking about user interface and usability Mobile interfaces are necessarily stripped down because they have to be Mobile browsing
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