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Home sessionmaterial All program material received to date is available to registrants for download prior the LITA National Forum. This page will be updated leading up to and following the Forum, so check for updates. LITA will be issuing flash drives with program material at the Forum - no more big, bulky notebooks! Keynote session descriptions Keynote speaker bios Concurrent Session Handouts Session Descriptions Speaker bios David and Goliath take on Social Tools Genny Engel, Sonoma County Library Michelle Boule, University of Houston Libraries Library Games: Information Literacy through Play (repeat session) Scott Rice and Amy Harris, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Building a Large Scale Open Source Repository at OhioLINK Thomas Dowling, OhioLINK Five Months with WorldCat Local: The University of Washington Libraries’ Experience Jennifer Ward, University of Washington Libraries Library 2023: A Provoked Discussion on the Future of Libraries (repeat session) Gregg A. Silvis, University of Delaware Library E-books: an account of the student experience Bonnie Tijerina, Julie Griffin, and Heather Jeffcoat King, Georgia Institute of Technology’s Library & Information Center Creating your fist Topic Map UPDATED, 10/17/07 Edward Iglesias, Central Connecticut State University Suellen Stringer-Hye, Vanderbilt University Enhancing the OPAC: Tagging the Catalog and Keyword-in-Headings Searching Shawn Carraway, Midlands Technical College Michael Bowden, Harrisburg Area Community College The Geography of Libraries: GIS for Public Library Decision Making and Marketing Steve Wrede and Jim Duncan, Colorado State Library Rochelle Logan, Douglas County Libraries Richard Tuccey, Pueblo City and County Library District Christe Koontz, Florida state University Real World Metadata Management with the University of North Texas Libraries’ Metadata Analysis Tool I doc 1 I doc 2 I UPDATED, 11/2/07 Mark E. Phillips, University of North Texas Libraries In Your Face(book): Social Networking Sites for Engaged Library Services UPDATED, 10/17/07 Gerry McKiernan, Iowa State University Library Five Weeks to a Social Library: Learning 2.0 on a Dime Michelle Boule and Karen Coombs, University of Houston Libraries Aggregating collections for access: the IMLS Digital Collections and Content project at the University of Illinois at U-C doc 1 doc 2 doc 3 Amy S. Jackson, Michael Twidale, Oksana Zavalina, and Timothy W. Cole, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Integrating information resources: The tale of the Primo development partnership at Vanderbilt Dale Poulter and Jody Combs, Vanderbilt University http://library2.0 Edward M. Corrado, College of New Jersey Library 5-minute madness Hosted by Jenny Reiswig, UC San Diego Biomedical Library Office for Information Technology Policy Update UPDATED, 10/10/07 Alan Inouye, ALA Washington Office Bob Bocher, ALA Washington Office LibX-Connecting Users and Libraries UPDATED, 10/17/07 Annette Bailey, Virginia Tech University Libraries It’s Up and Running, Now What? Strategies for Building Content in an Institutional Repository doc 1 doc 2 UPDATED, 10/10/07 Catherine M. Jannik, Georgia Institute of Technology Library and Information Center The Biodiversity Heritage Library Mass Digitizing Project: A Grandeur in this View of Digital Libraries UPDATED, 11/2/07 Martin R. Kalfatovic and Suzanne Chernau Pilsk, Smithsonian Institution Libraries Start-up Process Management for Library Media Production Services Sean Cordes, Iowa State University of Science and Technology From Plone to Plinkit to Public Libraries: A Tale of Four States UPDATED, 10/17/07 Darci Hanning, Oregon State Library Sharon Morris, Colorado State Library Kristi Lindsey, Penrose Community Library District Facet Forward: Faceted Navigation of Federated Search Results for Cultural Heritage Materials UPDATED, 11/2/07 Danielle Cunniff Plumer, Texas State Library and Archives Commission David Dorman, US Marketing Manager, Index Data Mark Phillips, University of North Texas Libraries’ Digital Projects Unit Letting the cat out of the box? Edward M. Corrado, College of New Jersey Library Finding, Using, and Sharing Scholarly Content Beth LaPensee, JSTOR Alice Preston, Aluka Signs of the Times: Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and IT Audit: I doc 1 I doc 2 I UPDATED, 10/17/07 Win Shih, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center John Culshaw, University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries Peaks and Pitfalls: Designing a Large-Scale Repository Workflow for Quality Assurance Beth Goldsmith, Frances Knudson, LANL Research Library Using the "Streetprint Engine" for digital image collections at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) Library Martha Chantiny, University of Hawaii at Manoa GettingIT Right Brenda Bailey-Hainer, Bibliographical Center for Research Rethinking Resource Sharing User-Centered Research and Library Technology David Lindahl and Nancy Fried Foster, University of Rochester The Rutgers Workflow Management System UPDATED, 10/17/07 Mary Beth Weber, Rutgers University Libraries Poster Sessions Session descriptions Speaker bios Reaching Students Outside of Traditional Library Instruction: Creating Online Tutorials to Reach a New Generation of Information Users Cindy Craig and Curt Friehs, Wichita State University Libraries Take Your Online Services to the Next Level: Audio, Video, and More! Michelle Jeske, Denver Public Library SFX Usability Testing at ASU UPDATED, 10/17/07 Tammy Allgood and Jenna Amani, Arizona State University Converting Technophobes into Technophiles: Empowering Reluctant Library Staff UPDATED, 10/17/07 Nina McHale, Auraria Library, Denver, CO Adventures in Digitization: A new librarian shares five hard-earned tips to avoid project management pitfalls Cory Lampert University of Nevada Libraries, Las Vegas Bright Ideas or Squeaky Wheels: Defining a model for R&D resource allocation Jennifer S. Kutzik and Don Albrecht, Colorado State University Libraries Using the Access Grid Videoconferencing System for Collaboration and Training: An Experiment with Distributed Personal Interface Grids (PIGs) Sharon Dennis, Midcontinental Region of the National Library of Networks of Medicine (NN/LM) MySpace or Facebook-The Social Networking Faceoff: What’s Right for Your Library? Beth Evans, Brooklyn College Library Shannon Kealey, New York University’s Bobst Library