2008 LITA National Forum Program Material

All program material received to date is available to registrants for download. This page will be updated leading up to and following the Forum, so check for updates. LITA will be issuing flashdrives with program material at the Forum.

HOTEL Info and Maps

SCHEDULE with Rooms & Locations

KEYNOTE General Session Descriptions & Speaker Bios

CONCURRENT Session Speakers

CONCURRENT Session Descriptions

Civil Rights Digital Library
P. Toby Graham, Director, Digital Library of Georgia

Crowdsourcing Digitization: Harnessing Workflows to Increase Output doc 1 I doc 2
Gretchen Gueguen and Ann Hanlon, University of Maryland

The State of Technology Access and Funding in U.S. Public Libraries: A National Study
Larra Clark and Carrie Lowe, ALA
The American Library Association (ALA) and the Information Institute at Florida State are encouraging public libraries to participate in their annual survey of public library public computer and Internet access as part of the Public Library Funding & Technology Access Study funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the ALA. The survey is Web-based and accessible at http://www.plinternetsurvey.org through November 7. Many libraries already have been invited to participate as part of the survey sample, but all public library responses are welcome. The study directors are Denise M. Davis and Larra Clark, and the survey builds on studies of public library Internet connectivity conducted since 1994 by Drs. John Carlo Bertot and Charles R. McClure. Many state libraries use these data for peer comparison, budget requests, advocacy, testimony before legislative bodies, and much more. A high survey response rate is critical for such uses to continue. It is our hope to achieve a high enough response rate to permit analysis of data from all 50 states plus Washington, D.C. The study offers the most current and comprehensive look at technology access and funding in U.S. public libraries. Last year's findings were published in September, and the final report is available as a downloadable PDF at http://www.ala.org/plinternetfunding or as a bound book through the ALA Store at http://www.alastore.ala.org/.
For any questions regarding the survey, contact support@plinternetsurvey.org or 850-645-2197

User-Centered Design for Humanities Collections within a Digital Library
Mark Phillips and Kathleen Murray, University of North Texas

LibX – Enhancing User Access to Library Resources
Annette Bailey, University Libraries at Virginia Tech 
  
Portals to Learning: What librarians can learn from video game design
Nicholas Schiller, Washington State University

Distributed Digital Preservation Networks: Three Working Examples doc 1 I doc 2 I doc 3
Rachel Howard, University of Louisville
Robert H. McDonald, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Richard Pearce-Moses, Arizona State Library and Archives
Aaron Trehub, Auburn University
 
Podcasting for Public Librarians 101: Or, If a Children’s Librarian Can Do This, So Can You!
Susan Poulter, Nashville Public Library
 
Course Management Systems: Integrating Library Content, Panel Discussion doc 1 I doc 2
Elizabeth Black, Ohio State University Libraries
Jason Casden, North Carolina State University Libraries
Kim Duckett, North Carolina State University Libraries
Don Kim, Murray State University 
 
Re-swizzling the IT Enterprise for the Next Generation: Creating a Strategic and Organizational Model for Effective IT Management
Maurice York, North Carolina State University Libraries 

Don't Make Me Choose! (or, Just Get What I Need!): Making It Simple to Borrow
Jean Rainwater and Bonnie Buzzell, Brown University Library
 
Institutional Repositories: Design and Development, Panel Discussion doc 1 I doc 2
Shu Liu, Colorado State University
Yongli Zhou, Colorado State University
Bradley D. Faust, Ball State University 
Tabatha Becker, University of Colorado
David Hodgins, University of Colorado at Colorado

Five-minute Madness

Unmanned Technology Projects: Surviving Library Technology When Understaffed [ppt], Suzi Cole and Mike McGuire

Incorporating ICT into a New Vision for Caribbean Libraries [ppt], Gracelyn Cassell

RFID Self Checkout User Interface Redesign [ppt], Bob Keith
Before video [wmv] I After Video [wmv]

Using Delicious to Select Teaching Materials Collaboratively [ppt], Emily Molanphy

The Endeca Project at TRLN [ppt], Derek Rodriguez

DigitalPast: Ten Years and Growing [ppt]

Texting at the Reference Desk: Implementing an SMS-to-Email Service for Mobile Patrons [ppt], Keith Weimer

Help System Based on Solr [ppt], Krista Wilde

Bringing Information Literacy into the Social Sphere: A Case Study Using Social Software to Teach Information Literacy at Wake Forest University
Erik Mitchell, Susan Sharpless Smith, and Caroline Numbers, Wake Forest University 
  
ALA Washington Office update
Carrie Lowe and Tim Vollmer, ALA Washington Office 
 
Library 2.0 PDQ: Meeting the Challenges of the Rapid Growth of Distance Learning and Off-Site Courses at a University Regional Campus
John J. Burke and Beth Tumbleson, Miami University 
 
How We Stuffed the Six Floors of Milner Library into the Palm of Your Hand
Sean Walton, Illinois State University 
  
Hacking Web 2.0: Protecting wikis, blogs and SQL databases
Jason Battles, University of Alabama Libraries
Dale Poulter, Vanderbilt University

Putting the Library Website in Their Hands: The Advantages and Challenges of a Homegrown Content Management System
Rachel Vacek, University of Houston Libraries

Use of Digital Displays in a Library Environment
Keith Morgan and Timothy Mori, North Carolina State University Libraries 
 
Building your own collaborative Web applications with Drupal, an Open Source Content Management Software
Weiling Liu, University of Louisville 
  
A Faceted Browsing Approach to Duke's Digital Collections: Using Open-Source Platforms to Enhance the User Experience
Will Sexton and Sean Aery, Duke University Libraries 
  
The Chronopolis: Digital Preservation Archive Development and Demonstration Program
Robert H. McDonald, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Ardys Kozbial, University of California, San Diego Libraries

Navigate Library Mazes through Online Interactive Map
Yongli Zhou, Colorado State University Libraries
 
Building a Web Based Laboratory for Library Users
Jason Battles, University of Alabama Libraries
Jody Combs, Vanderbilt University
 
Web Site Redesign: Perspectives from the Field, Panel Discussion doc 1 I doc 2 I doc 3
Robin Leech, Oklahoma State University Libraries
Amelia Brunskill, Dickinson College
Edward M. Corrado, Binghamton University
Elizabeth Black, Ohio State University Libraries
Russell Schelby, Ohio State University Libraries 
 
Participation and Power: Combining Community Features with Existing Metadata in NextGen Public Interfaces
Kelly M. Vickery, University of Kentucky
Dinah Sanders, Innovative Interfaces

Universal Search Solution - NELLCO's IMLS National Leadership Grant
Tracy L. Thompson, New England Law Library Consortium (NELLCO) 
  
Optimizing Library Resources for Screen Readers
Nina McHale, Auraria Library in Denver

WorldCat Local – a Statewide Discovery Toolkit Project
Jan Ison and Pat Boze, Lincoln Trail Libraries System

Illogical Students: Don't Blame 'Em, Game 'Em
Marsha Spiegelman and Richard Glass, Nassau Community College

POSTER Sessions Speakers

POSTER Sessions Descriptions

Get Infected: How Viral Marketing Can Help Your Library
Julie D. Shedd, Mississippi State University Libraries

Using del.icio.us Bookmarks and Tags to Create a Virtual Reference Desk
Mark Sanders, East Carolina University

Don’t Be Selfish, Give a Little
Bobby Goff, Mississippi State University Libraries

A Study of User Information Searching Behaviors in the University of Alabama Community
Suhua Fan, University of Alabama Libraries

Communal reference blogging within the academic library
Margaret Smith, New York University's Bobst Library

Little Big Brother: Find out who is coming to your site …and what they are doing
Clay Hill, Mississippi State University Libraries

Planting 2.0 Seeds in the Academic Library Community Garden
Karen Reiman-Sendi, Shevon Desai, Sue Wortman, and Donna Hayward, University of Michigan

Mentoring Interactively (MIing): new tools for librarian recruitment and retention or how we can build bridges between boomers and next-gen librarians
Lisa Gieskes, ECPI College of Technology