Disruptive Library Technology Jester » ALA Annual Conference 2009 http://dltj.org We're Disrupted, We're Librarians, and We're Not Going to Take It Anymore Fri, 18 May 2012 15:43:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ Two ways to learn about the OLE Project at ALAhttp://dltj.org/article/ole-ala-annual/ http://dltj.org/article/ole-ala-annual/#comments Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:25:13 +0000 Peter Murray http://dltj.org/?p=1058 Continue reading →]]>

There will be two programs at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago where aspects of the Open Library Environment Project will be discussed. The participants in the design phase of the project encourage you to attend one or both of them to learn about the design phase deliverables and the plans for the build phase.

The first is a full 90-minute session with the title The Open Library Environment Project: Building an ILS for Service Oriented Architecture Integration. It will be held on Saturday, July 11th from 10:30am to noon in McCormick Place West room W-196a. This will be the more in-depth of the two programs, with plenty of time for questions and answers with members of the design group.
In the second, members of the OLE Project design team will be on a panel at the LITA Next-Generation Catalog Interest Group program called Post-Integrated Library Systems? – The Open Library Environment (OLE) and the Unified Resource Management (URM) Projects. It will be held on Monday, July 13th from 3:30pm to 5:30pm in Chicago room of the Palmer House hotel. Also on this panel will be Oren Beit-Arie, the Chief Strategy Officer of Ex Libris, and Susan Sterns, the Vice President of Professional Services of Ex Libris, talking about their Unified Resource Management (URM) Project.
]]> http://dltj.org/article/ole-ala-annual/feed/ 7 Unconference Experiment at ALA Annual 2009http://dltj.org/article/unconference-ala-annual/ http://dltj.org/article/unconference-ala-annual/#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:53:51 +0000 Peter Murray http://dltj.org/?p=745 Continue reading →]]>

ALA Annual 2000 LogoThe latest edition of American Libraries Direct published today has a story about an unconference that precedes the ALA Annual conference in Chicago this July:

Are you interested in attending a conference program where you have a hand in determining the topics discussed? Have you always wondered what really goes on at an unconference? As part of ALA President Jim Rettig’s “Creating Connections” initiatives, 75 conference attendees will have the opportunity to participate in a free unconference July 10 at the 2009 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago….

Attendance is limited to 75 people, and there is an online registration wiki page to signal that you are coming. (You’ll need to register for the ALA Annual 2009 Wiki before editing the page.)

This is an interesting experiment — kudos to ALA for trying it out.

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