9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Registration opens at 8:30 a.m.

LITA thanks

for their support of this
preconference

2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Registration opens at 1:30 p.m.

LITA thanks

for their support of this
preconference

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9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Registration opens at 8:30 a.m.

LITA thanks

for their support of this
preconference

The LITA Happy Hour will take place Friday, June 25, 2004, in Capriccio Bar of the Peabody Hotel, from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.  The Peabody is one of ALA's "co-headquarters" hotels, very near the Orange County Convention Center at 9801 International Drive.  Arrive before 5:00 p.m. if you'd like to watch the famed Peabody mallards march from their lobby fountain to their luxury suite!  Members and non-members alike are welcome!

Internet Resources Interest Group
Content Management Systems for Library Web Sites
Content magement ensures a consistent level of professionalism on large and complex library web sites.  Learn how two libraries have taken different approaches to manage the Web development process and the in-house solutions they have implemented.  This two-hour program is followed by the Internet Resources IG meeting.
Speakers:  Laura B. Cohen, Network Services, Librarian/Webmaster, Univ. at Albany, SUNY; Matthew M. Calsada, Database Administrator/Developer, Univ. at Albany, SUNY; Frederick J. Jeziorkowski, Network Manager/Systems Administrator, Univ. at Albany, SUNY;  Diane Dallis, Information Commons-Undergraduate Services, Indiana Univ., Bloomington; Doug Ryner, Library Information Technology, Indiana Univ., Bloomington.

LITA Open Source Systems IG; Co-sponsor: Internet Portals IG
Data Fountains: Open Source Internet Resource Discovery and Metadata/Full-Text Generation Service
"Data Fountains is a cooperative internet resource discovery, metadata generation and selected, full-text harvesting service of value in building internet resource collections for libraries and virtual libraries. It incorporates new approches in automated and semi-automated Web crawling and classification thus providing machine assistance and time and labor savings to collection builders."
(Internet Portals IG business meeting after the conclusion of the program 12:00 noon-12:30 p.m.)

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After a brief tribute by LITA President Tom Wilson, Sir Arthur C. Clarke will be interviewed from his home in Sri Lanka by fantasy author Ed Greenwood. They will discuss a variety of topics that explore Clarke’s significant contributions to the Information Age and to humankind’s technological evolution into space.

A panel discussion following the interview will elaborate on Clarke’s comments and his overall contributions to information technology, space exploration, evolutionary theory, science fiction and other related topics. Along with Greenwood, two of the other noted panelists will be the science fiction writers, Vernor Vinge, and Geoffrey Landis. An audience question and answer session will be included.

This event is presented by LITA’s Imagineering Interest Group

Technology and Access Committee
To Save or Not to Save?  Strategies for Protecting Patron Information
A challenge for public and academic libraries is to protect their patrons anonymous access to information while retaining sufficient data to inform the development of existing future services.  This program will discuss issues surrounding the identificaton and retention of personal patron information in various library systems and present preemptive strategies to identify and attempt to minimize the potential risks of saving data.Speakers: Michael E. Pheneger, ACLU, Florida Chapter; Daniel Curtin, President, Comprise Technologies; Scott Nicholson, Asst. Prof. School of Information Studies, Syracuse Univ.; Jenifer Kuntz, Florida Center for Library Automation.

Authority Control in the Online Environment (LITA/ALCTS)
Fast, Slow and Z39.19: Emerging Trends in Subject Authority Control
Constructing subject headings using new standards (Z39.19), deconstructing existing headings (FAST), discovering what happens in a catalog with *no* subject headings--facilitating subject access by controlled and uncontrolled headings will be front and center at the 2004 Annual ACIG session. FRBR also surfaces, as the parent concept of FRANAR, an evolving set of standards that may facilitate record-sharing internationally. This two hour program will be followed by ACIG's business meeting. Speakers: Barbara Tillet, Chief, CPSO, Library of Congress; Arlene Taylor, Professor, School of Library & Information Sciences, Univ. of Pittsburgh; Ed O'Neill, Consulting Research Scientist, OCLC; Lois Mai Chan, Professor School of Library & Information Science, Univ. of Kentucky; Stephen Hearn, Authority Control Coord/Projects Data Team Ldr., Univ. of Minnesota; John Attig, Monograph Cataloging Librarian, Pennsylvania State University.

LITA President's Program
It's A Small World After All
This large-scale digital archive of literature for children ages three to thirteen is being built by The University of Maryland's Human-Computer Interaction Lab, a leader in children's interface design, and The Internet Archive.  Faculty from the College of Information Studies and the Computer Science Department are collaborating to create a digitized children's library that will grow to over 10,000 books available in 100 languages.  Midway through a five-year grant, supported by the National Science Foundaton (NSF), the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), and the Kahle/Austin Foundation, the principal investigators will share their vision and what they have learned, as well as demonstrate the product they are developing.
Speakers: Ben Bederson, Asst. Professor of Computer Science, Univ. of Maryland, College Park; Dr. Allison Druin,Asst. Professor College of Information Studies, Univ. of Maryland, College Park; Dr. Ann Weeks, Professor of the Practice College of Information Studies, Univ. of Maryland, College Park.
Preceding the talk, LITA award and scholarship winners will be honored.