ALA | LITA Annual 2003

Library & Information Technology Association

LITA at 2003 ALA Annual Conference

LITA SCHEDULE FOR ALA ANNUAL CONFERENCE Toronto, Ontario, Canada June 19 - June 25, 2003
Conference Hotels Thursday, June 19 Friday, June 20 Saturday, June 21 Sunday, June 22 Monday, June 23 Tuesday, June 24

Conference Hotels
MTCC - Metro Toronto Convention Centre -- Also houses Exhibits, Registration, and ALA Offices

COUR - Courtyard by Marriott Downtown	NOV - Novotel Toronto Centre
CRO - Crowne Plaza Toronto Centre	RAD - Radisson Plaza Hotel Admiral
DEL - Delta chelsea	REN - Renaissance at Skydome
*ROY - Fairmont Royal York	*SHER - Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel
HOL - Holiday Inn on King	SUT - Sutton Place Hotel
INTER - Hotel Inter-Continental	COL - Toronto Colony Hotel
MER - Le Royal Meridien King Edward	MARB - Toronto Marriott Bloor Yorkville
MET - Metropolitan Hotel	HIL - The Toronto Hilton
	WEST - Westin Harbour Castle
*Co-Headquarters Hotels
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Thursday, June 19
9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Registration opens at 8:30 a.m.	MTCC-716A	Preconference:Ebooks: After Hype and Death, What Really Works Many highly publicized eBook ventures have ridden the wave of public acclaim and commercial endeavor from the heights to the pits. Meanwhile there is a base group of eBook services that are slowly, successfully and increasingly producing good useable products, products that libraries can make available to the benefit of their partons. This Institute will give attendees a "state of the business" overview of eBooks. Particular emphasis will be first and foremost on library usability of eBooks. We'll cover what librarians can actually use and do with eBooks now. What they can expect to happen, and not happen in the near future, including practical applications and many "buyer beware" warnings. We'll look at business models for eBook providers as indicators of the viability of that provider both in the open market place and for libraries specifically. Presented by: LITA Program Planning Committee
Friday, June 20
9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Registration opens at 8:30 a.m.	MTCC-713A/B	Preconference:Breaking Free: Recreating Your library Web Site From A-Z Experience the process of a complete library web redesign. Librarians from California State University, Los Angeles, Toronto Public Library, and the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point will lead attendees through the process of conducting usability studies; analyzing web usage statistics; testing ADA compliance; examining web site architecture; exploring principles of web design; using JavaScript and dynamic web design; and much more. Join them for an intense exploration into the recreation of a library web site. Presented by: LITA Program Planning Committee
9:30a.m. - 11:00a.m.	NOV-Suite 215	LITA Executive Committee
5:00p.m. - 7:00p.m.	Monarchs Pub Delta Chelsea Hotel 33 Gerrard Street West	LITA HAPPY HOUR! Join LITA members at this informal, no-host happy hour before everything gets started at the Conference. ALA attendees who are not LITA members are also welcome.
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Saturday, June 21
8:00a.m. - 8:30a.m.	COURT-Alexander	Committee & Interest Group Joint Chairs Meeting
8:30a.m. - 9:30a.m.	COURT-Alexander	Committee Chairs
8:30a.m. - 9:30a.m.	Court-College	Interest Group Chairs
8:30 a.m. - 10:00a.m.	NOV-Champagne BR	Program Planning Committee Strokes for Folks - Web Site (re) Design for Specific Audiences As Internet and Intranet use have grown in organizations, librarians are re-thinking the original design of the interface they provide their clients. Three speakers will discuss the issues of matching the web/intranet interface to the target audience, from government, corporate and non-profit viewpoints.
8:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon	MTCC-701A	Electronic Publishing/Electronic Journals IG Business Plans for Electronic Publishers Providing Digial Library Material Designing business models that will allow journal and book publishers to make their products available to all members of a library's community without simultaneously eroding their profits or diminishing the number of individul purchasers or subscribers to their materials has become a major problem, both for publishers and for libraries. This program will discuss these issues and present models that have shown some promise in solving these dilemmas.
9:30a.m. - 11:00a.m.	COURT-Alexander	Human Machine Interface IG
9:30a.m. - 11:00a.m.	RAD-Chart Room	Membership Committee
9:30a.m. - 12:30p.m.	MTCC-201 E/F	LITA Board of Directors
9:30a.m. - 12:30p.m.	MTCC-802B	Education Committee
9:30a.m. - 12:30p.m.	ROY-Tudor 7/8	Internet Portals IG
9:30a.m. - 12:30p.m.	WEST-Pier 5	MARBI (ALCTS/LITA/RUSA)
10:30a.m. - 12:00p.m.	DEL-Mountbatten Salon	Program Planning Committee Taxonomies in Context: Making Web-Sites Accessible This program will address issues involved in the creation and use of top-level taxonomies for enhancing access to electronic information. Attendees will gain an understanding of the importance of taxonomies in the digital environment. Clare Hart will present a broad introduction and overview of issues related to the development and application of taxonomies. Deane Zeeman of the National Library of Canada and Carol Ellerbeck of Harvard will report on work being done at their institutions.
1:30p.m. - 3:30p.m.	CRO-Ballroom B	Imagineering Interest Group Science Fiction-Science Future The science fiction genre has been described as the literature of human possibilities. A panel of distinguished science fiction authors will share their perspectives on the extent to which the images and technologies in science fiction writing have pushed us towards realizing certain facts and futures and pulled us away from others.
1:30p.m. - 3:30p.m.	COL-Colony BR East	Internet Portals IG Public Portals and International Collaboration Speakers representing library-based Web portals from three countries will report on the current status of open source Web portal software projects and collaborative activities across state and country lines. The presentation will feature live demonstrations of functioning portals. *(CANCELLED)*
1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.	ROY-Imperial	Distance Learning IG
2:00p.m. - 4:00p.m.	REN-Skybox 1	Legislation and Regulation Committee
2:00p.m. - 4:00p.m.	ROY-Quebec	MARC Formats (LITA/ALCTS)
2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.	HIL-Harris/MacDonald	Membership Development Committee Grow with LITA The LITA Membership Development Committee invites current and prospective members of LITA to this open house networking opportunity. If you're new to LITA, come for the chance to talk to LITA leaders and learn how to make connections and become more involved in LITA activities. If you're an old hand in LITA, stop in to help enlighten attendees about opportunities for involvement with LITA. Attendees may drop in any time during the session to talk with LITA Committee and Interest Group Chairs and others, who will be grouped into broadly-defined clusters. There will also be a mentoring table in the center of the room, staffed by the members of the Membership Committee .
2:00p.m. - 4:00p.m.	MTCC-706	Publications Committee
4:30p.m. - 5:30p.m.	COL-Giovanni Rm.	Digital Library Technologies IG
4:30p.m. - 5:30p.m.	MTCC-715B	Standards IG
4:30p.m. - 5:30p.m.	DEL-James	TER Editorial Board
4:30p.m. - 5:30p.m.	COURT-Yonge	Web Coordinating Committee
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Sunday, June 22
8:30a.m. - 12:00 noon	MTCC-701B	Electronic Publishing/Electronic Journals IG Fair use by Design-Programming Fair Use Misuse of digital information is easy and rampant, yet all information provided by libraries will soon be available in digital format. This program will explore the questions, "Is there a way to program access that will protect copyright owners' interests yet allow fair use?".
8:30a.m. - 12:00 noon	SHER-Ballroom West	Internet Resources IG Optimal Design Considerations for Web OPAC Interfaces Speakers will discuss current OPAC interfaces, and general principles and practices based on their research. They will evaluate moving from character-based to web-based OPAC as well as updating existing web-based OPAC. They will also look at the impact of web search engines and online bookstores on user search behavior and expecations. Alternative OPAC interfaces representing academic, public, and school libraries will be demonstrated. The two-hour program will be followed by the Interest Group business meeting.
9:30a.m - 11:00a.m.	DEL-Scott	Heads of library Technology IG
9:30a.m - 12:30p.m.	HOL-Oak	Regional Institutes Committee
10:30a.m. - 12:00 noon	MTCC-206C/D	Open Source Systems IG If it is Free, How Can It Be Any Good? From the library administrators' point of view, what are the advantages and disadvantages of Open Source software? Join us for a panel discussion to discover why some library directors made the leap into supporting the Open Source movement. We will showcase different types of libraries at different stages of adopting and/or creating Open Source software to provide you with plenty of reasons and examples why you can't afford to ignore this free software.
11:30a.m - 12:30p.m.	SHER-Spring Song	Kilgour Award Committee
1:30p.m. - 3:30p.m.	ROY-Tudor 7-9	Technology and the Arts IG Canadian Theatre Record: Digitizing Cultural Resources and Creating a Portal The Canadian Theatre Record is a multi-institutional collaborative project to digitize cultural resources from Canadian theatre productions and develop e-learning materials. The session will include a overview of the collection, as well as technical and collaborative issues and challenges. Project Plannning; metadata cataloging; copyright clearance; digital scanning and OCR;file compression and use of MrSID; database and content management; billingual portal development; workflow; and collaborative partnerships will be presented. Q and A and discussion to follow talk.
1:30p.m. - 5:30p.m.	DEL-Mountbatten Salon	Authority Control in the Online Environment(LITA/ALCTS) Unicode and Authority Control - Together at Last Libraries will be converting their database to unicode. How will this impact authortiy control. Speakers will address the various issues facing libraries as they move to unicode, e.g. representation to non-roman data in authority record indexing and retrieval of non-roman data.
2:00p.m. - 4:00p.m.	SHER-Spindrift	Library Consortia/Automated Systems IG
2:00p.m. - 4:00p.m.	DEL-James	LITA National Forum 2004 Planning Committee
2:00p.m. - 4:00p.m.	COURT-Spadina	Microcomputer Users IG
2:00p.m. - 4:00p.m.	SHER-Wentworth	Program Planning Committee
2:00p.m. - 4:00p.m.	HIL-Johnston Room	Publications Committee
2:00p.m. - 4:00p.m.	NOV-Suite 223	Technology and Access Committee
2:00p.m. - 5:30p.m.	SHER-Spring Song	Bylaws and Organization Committee
2:00p.m. - 5:30p.m.	COL-Colony Ballroom Centre	MARBI (ALCTS, LITA, RUSA)
4:00p.m. - 5:30p.m.	MTCC-801B	Top Technology Trends Committee Top Technology Trends: A Conversation with LITA Experts LITA experts discuss current and future top technology trends Panel moderated by David Ward.
4:30p.m - 5:30p.m.	SHER-Spindrift	Open Source Systems IG
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Monday, June 23
8:00a.m. - 11:00a.m.	HOL-Oak	National Forum (2003) Committee
8:30a.m. - 10:00a.m.	MTCC-Auditorium	Program Planning Committee Cliff's Notes 2003 Clifford Lynch, Director of the Coalition for Networked Information, will highlight technology and information policy trends and developments from his unique point of view.
8:30a.m. - 11:00a.m.	RAD-Chart Room	Technology and Access Committee
9:30a.m. - 11:00a.m.	DEL-Galsworthy	International Relations Committee
9:30a.m. - 11:00a.m.	SHER-Canadiana	ITAL Editorial Board *(CANCELLED)*
9:30a.m. - 11:00a.m.	DEL-Duchesse	Secure Systems and Services IG
9:30a.m. - 11:00a.m.	MER-Belgravia	Technical Services Workstation IG
9:30a.m. - 12:30p.m.	MARB-McBride	Program Planning Committee
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon	MARB-Forest Hill BR	Digital Technologies IG The Library as Electronic Publisher: New Models of Dissemination of Scholarship Many Libraries are involved in digitl publicaton projects that will help scholars independently disseminate knowledge. These projects rely on sophisticated software and systems architecture as well as the strategic positioning of libraries in the publication process. This program will describe the technological implementation and management of library scholarly publishing programs and demonstrate the challenges and opportunities of different approaches.
11:30a.m - 12:40p.m.	MTCC-810	Emerging Technologies IG
2:00p.m. - 4:00p.m.	MTCC-716A	MARBI (ALCTS, LITA, RUSA)
2:00p.m. - 4:00p.m.	WEST-Metro BR Centre	LITA President's Program Universal Access to All Human Knowledge The goal of universal access to our cultural heritage is within our grasp. With current digital technology we can build comprehensive collections, and with digital networks we can make these available to students and scholars all over the world. the current challeng is establishing the roles, rights, and responsibilities of our libraries and archives in providing public access to this information. With these roles defined, our institutions will help fulfill this epic opportunity of our digital age. Speaker: Brewster Kahle, Digital Librarian, Internet Archive. Preceding the talk, LITA award and scholarship winners will be honored.
4:00p.m. - 6:00p.m.	WEST-BR West	LITA President's Reception Generously sponsored by the Blackwell Companies.
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Tuesday, June 24
8:30a.m. - 11:00a.m.	ROY-Nova Scotia	Bylaws and Organization
1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.	MTCC-206D	Board of Directors
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