Advancing Patron Privacy on Vendor Systems with a Shared Understanding
Last week I had the pleasure of presenting a short talk at the second virtual meeting of the NISO effort to reach a Consensus Framework to Support Patron Pr...
American Library Association
Join the Community: Open Source is Nothing Without You
During the American Library Association meeting in Chicago in 2013 I gave an "ignite" talk on open source software in libraries. (The "ignite talk" format, ...
My ALA Midwinter 2011 Schedule
The end-of-year holidays are behind us and (in the northern parts of the northern hemisphere) the cold days of winter in front of us. What better time to ba...
MARC isn’t Dead, but it is a Dead End
This week I sat in on the first of the three "Using RDA: Moving into the Metadata Future" webinars being hosted by ALA. This one was hosted by Karen Coyle w...
Midwinter Meeting Schedule (Plus News of a Free Midwinter Airport Shuttle)
The year is coming to a close, so that must mean that the midwinter meeting of the American Library Association is right around the corner. Yep, there it i...
Comments on Google Book Search Settlement Coming to a Head (Again)
Ah, it is the beginning of September when thoughts turn to going back to school, the days turn a little colder (in the northern hemisphere) and the smell of ...
Summary of Recent Google Book Search Settlement Activities
Today was to be the deadline for objecting to, opting out of, and/or filing briefs with the court on the Google Book Search Settlement. That was the plan, a...
Library Associations File Amicus Brief for Google Book Search Settlement
The American Library Association (through the Association's Washington Office and the Association of College and Research Libraries Division) and the Associa...
ALCTS Forum on Creating and Sustaining Communities Around Shared Library Data
Community-shared metadata has certainly been a hot topic of late. It is timely, then that ALCTS is sponsoring a panel discussion about sharing library-creat...
LITA Announces an Unconference for May 2009
Earlier this week, LITA announced its unconference event: LITACamp. The meeting is scheduled for May 7-8, 2009 at the OCLC Conference Center in Dublin, Ohio...
Downloading the ALA Annual Meeting Planner to Your Mac iCal
First, kudos to the vendor that runs the ALA Meeting Planner website. They listened to suggestions and now include a way to download your event planner info...
Google Map of ALA Midwinter Hotels
Here is a map of official conference hotels and a link to download the KML file into Google Earth. ALA Midwinter 2008 Hotel KML Location file I'm somewhat di...
Advocates of the Balance Between the Rights of Intellectual Property Owners and the Rights of Information Users
The American Library Association Committee on Professional Ethics is proposing changes to the Code of Ethics. ((Do those outside the profession know that lib...
Survey on Library Professional Perceptions
Jenny Emanuel, Electronic Services Librarian at University of Central Missouri, posted an invitation to complete a survey on how library professionals think ...
“Draft Principles for Digitized Content” from the Digitization Policy Task Force of ALA’s Office for Information Technology Policy
A note on the LITA-L mailing list from M. Claire Stewart (a member of the American Library Association Office of Information Technology Policy Task Force on ...