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Peter E. Murray

Library technologist, open source advocate, striving to think globally while acting locally

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  • Host Your Own Virtual Lightning Talks Using Google Hangout -- Slides and Links from ALA2013 Presentation

    In the "very meta" category, this morning I gave a lightning talk about lightning talks to a crowd of about 150 at the LITA Lightning Talks session. More specifically, it was a brief presentation on how Code4Lib uses Google Hangouts-on-Air for its Virtual Lightning Talks. The slides and links from …

     Posted on  June 29, 2013
     and last updated March 03, 2020
  • "What Is Your Library Doing about Emerging Technologies?"

    At the American Library Association conference this weekend, I'll be part of a panel presentation from the LITA Emerging Technologies Interest Group with the title "What Is Your Library Doing about Emerging Technologies?" The presentation will be on Saturday, June 26 from 1:30pm to 3:30pm in room 103B …

     Posted on  June 22, 2010
     and last updated June 23, 2010
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • 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. (Map of conference center and surrounding facilities.)

    For those that don't know, the unconference meeting format is one where the topics are picked by those …

     Posted on  December 05, 2008
     and last updated December 05, 2008
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • Meeting of the JPEG 2000 Interest Group on Jan 12th in Philadelphia

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    Saturday, January 12th from 1:30pm to 3:30pm — j2kIG Meeting at Chestnut room in the Radisson Plaza hotel

    The JPEG2000 Interest Group of LITA will be holding a business meeting to discuss plans for a program at the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim in June. Anyone …

     Posted on  January 04, 2008
     and last updated January 04, 2008
     ·  2 minutes reading time
  • Notes from the LITA Standards IG meeting

    [Aside: I'm not quite sure what the procedure is for posting on LITAblog.org. This report was posted there last night to appear at something like http://www.litablog.org/2007/06/23/standards-ig/ but it seems to be stuck in a moderation queue of some sort. I'm reposting it …

     Posted on  June 24, 2007
     and last updated June 24, 2007
     ·  6 minutes reading time
  • Minutes of the JPEG2000 Interest Group Posted

    Minutes of the JPEG2000 Interest Group have been posted to the j2kArcLib.info website. Comments there are restricted to registered users of the site (although registration is freely available), so feel free to post comments here.

    The text was modified to remove a link to http://j2karclib.info/node/113 …

     Posted on  June 23, 2007
     and last updated June 23, 2007
  • Meeting of the JPEG 2000 Interest Group on Jun 23rd in Washington, DC

    There will be a meeting of the LITA JPEG 2000 Interest Group during the annual conference of the American Library Association in Washington, DC, from June 23th from 10:30am to noon. The meeting will be held in the Congressional room in the Doubletree Washington hotel.

    At the meeting we …

     Posted on  June 13, 2007
     and last updated June 13, 2007
  • Appreciating our Heritage while Embracing a Future

    Tom Wilson, LITA past president and all-around insightful LITA Top Technology Trendster, posted a commentary to the "Where have all the programmers gone?" post that deserves top billing For those that have not yet encountered this idiom, "top billing" is a motion picture industry term that refers to actors whose …

     Posted on  July 13, 2006
     and last updated July 13, 2006
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • Electronic Resource Management Systems in Consortial Environments

    This is a summary of the discussion of the LITA Library Consortia / Automated Systems Interest Group meeting on Monday morning of the ALA Annual Convention in New Orleans. The meeting consisted of a managed discussion of the use of Electronic Resource Management (ERM) systems in consortial environments. In some cases …

     Posted on  June 26, 2006
     and last updated June 26, 2006
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • It's All About User Services: A Summary and Commentary on the LITA Top Technology Trends meeting

    What follows is a summary and commentary on the LITA Top Technology Trends meeting at ALA annual conference in New Orleans on 25-Jun-2006. What I've tried to do is collate comments from the panel members and add my own commentary (marked off as such from the rest of the summary …

     Posted on  June 25, 2006
     and last updated June 26, 2006
     ·  8 minutes reading time
  • "Identifiers Roundup" — LITA Standards Interest Group in conjunction with NISO

    This is a report of the presentations from the LITA Standards Interest Group at the ALA Annual Conference, 24-Jul-2006, in New Orleans. Pat Stevens, interim director of NISO, moderated the panel discussion.

    ISSN Regina Reynolds, Library of Congress (U.S. ISSN Center)

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    There are 80 ISSN centers worldwide with …

     Posted on  June 24, 2006
     and last updated June 25, 2006
     ·  8 minutes reading time
  • Minutes of the ALA/LITA JPEG2000 for Libraries and Archives interest group meeting

    Attending: M. Anderson, U of Iowa; A. Laas, LexisNexis; Y. Han, U of Arizona; P. Howell, Western Michigan University; Y. Kaganovia, Princeton U; P. Murray, OhioLINK; K. Thompson, Smithsonian Libraries

    Participants talked about their interest in JPEG2000 and their institution's use of the standard: Western Michgan University is digitizing manuscripts …

     Posted on  June 24, 2006
     and last updated June 24, 2006
     ·  1 minutes reading time