Meet you at the Forum
Posted On Aug 27 2009On of my favorite conferences is coming up. LITA Forum will be in Salt Lake City this year and the theme is “Open & Mobile.” Save the dates–October 2-4, 2009. There are some great concurrent sessions planned–mobile technologies, open data, open source software, lightening talks, and some really great looking poster sessions. Lest I forget three fantastic keynoters: Joan Lippicott (Day 1) David Weinberger (Day 2) Liz Lawley (Day 3) If you’re in the mood for an extra day in Salt Lake, two LITA members are sure to dazzle with their pre-conference offerings. Jason Griffey will be talking about the …
My Kind of Conference, My Kind of Town
Posted On Jul 6 2009I’m used to wearing many hats at ALA Conference. In fact, it was the number of hats and the frequency with which I changed them that led to name of my blog. When I joined OCLC 18 months ago, I shed one of those hats–American Librariescolumnist. Nevertheless, the other two hats–OCLC and LITA–seem to have gotten much bigger (please no snide comments about the size of my head). This Annual Conference in July is gearing up to be one of my busiest ever. Rather than bore you with the details of that busy-ness, I thought I would share what I …