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ALA Annual Conference 2007, Washington, DC, June 22-26

LITA at ALA Annual Conference

 Schedule of Programs and Meetings



Washington Convention Center  WCC l                              Hotel Washington  WASH
Beacon Hotel & Corporate Quarters  BEAC                      Hyatt Regency Capital Hill  REG
Capital Hilton  CAP                                                            JW Marriott  JW
Doubletree Washington  DOUB                                          Madison Hotel  MAD
Embassy Suites DC Convention Ctr. EMB                          Marriott at Metro Ctr.  MET
Fairmont Washington DC  FAIR                                         Renaissance M St.  M
Four Points Sheraton  SHER                                               Renaissance Mayflower  MAY
*Grand Hyatt Washington  HYATT                                    *Renaissance Washington  REN
Hamilton Crowne Plaza CROW                                          Washington Plaza  PLAZA
Hilton Washington  HIL                                                       **Wyndham Washington  WYND


Friday, June 22, 2007

8:00 am -  6:00 pm                   LITA Blogger's Room: WCC  154 B                                                                       
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm                    Executive Committee: REN  Room 17
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm                    Electronic Resources Management I.G.: HYATT  Farragut Sq.

Saturday, June 23, 2007


8:00 am - 9:00 am                    Joint Committee and Interest Groups Chairs Meeting: WCC  Room 209
8:00 am -  6:00 pm                   LITA Blogger's Room: WCC  154 B
9:30 am - 10:30 am                  Committee Chairs: WCC  Room 209 A
9:30 am - 10:30 am                  Interest Groups Chairs: WCC  Room 209 B
9:30 am - 12:30 pm                  Board of Directors I: WCC  Room 154 A
10:30 am - 12:00 pm                MARBI Committee: CAP  South American
                                                Automating Metadata Creation with Open Source Software:  WCC  Room 207 B
                                                Distance Learning Interest Group: REN Room 2
                                                Imagineering Interest Group: CROW Farragut
                                                JPEG 2000 Interest Group: DOUB Congressional
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm                   Blog and Wiki Interest Group (BIGWIG): MAY Cabinet Room
                                                Education Committee: REN  Room 17
                                                Human Machine Interface Interest Group: WCC  Room 154 A
                                                LITA National Forum Planning Committee I: MAD  Madison Parlor Room
                                                LITA/ALCTS MARC Formats Interest Group: MAD  Montpelier Salon II
                                                Next Generation Catalogs Interest Group: MAD  Montpelier Salon I
                                                Publications Committee: CROW Farragut
                                                RFID In Libraries: New Developments: WCC  203 A/B
                                                The Literature of Ideas: CAP Congressional/Senate
                                                The Ultimate Debate: Do Libraries Innovate?: MAY  Grand Ballroom
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm                   LITA 101: Open House: REN  Room 12-14
                                               The Open ILS: PINES, the Evergreen Open-ILS Program & The
                                               University of Rochester Extensible Catalog Project: WCC  Room 103A
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm                   The Google Five Libraries: Two Years, Six Months, and Seven Days
                                                in the Life of Google Library Project: REN  Grand Ballroom South
                                                Standards Interest Group: WCC  Room 143B
                                                Web Coordinating Committee: WCC Room 205
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm                    LITA Happy Hour: Capitol City Brewing Company (Downtown)

Sunday, June 24, 2007

8:00 am - 10:00 am                  Bylaws and Organization Committee I : JW  Cannon
                                                Membership Development Committee: WASH  Federal Room
                                                Public Libraries Technology Interest Group: REG  Ticonderoga
                                                Technology and Access Committee: MET  Exec. Boardroom
8:00 am - 6:00 pm                    LITA Blogger's Room: WCC  Room 154 B
10:30 am - 12 noon                  Blog and Wiki Interest Group (BIGWIG): WCC  Room 154 B
                                                Building the Next Generation Public Library Web Site with Drupal: HYATT  Constitution A
                                                Digital Library Technologies Interest Group: HYATT  Independence H-I
                                                Heads of Library Technology Interest Group: DOUB  Directors
                                                Internet Resource Services Interest Group: REG  Columbia A
                                                Legal Challenges to Digitization Projects: Adopting Orphan Works: MAY  Colonial Room
                                                Regional Institutes Committee: WASH Council
                                                Sakai Collaboration and learning Environment: WCC  Room 145 A
                                                Technology Electronic Reviews Committee: PLAZA  Executive Boardroom
10:30 am - 2:00pm                   Program Planning Committee: SHER  Franklin A
1:30 pm -3:00 pm                     Top Technology Trends: MAY  East/State Rooms
1:30 pm -3:30 pm                     Authority Control Meets Faceted Browse: REN  Grand Ballroom North
1:30 pm -6:00 pm                     MARBI Committee: CAP  South American
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm                    Awards Reception: MAY  Grand Ballroom
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm                    LITA President's Program: Tag! Your IT!:
                                                Online Digital Audio Collections Meet PennTags:  MAY  East/State Rooms

Monday, June 25, 2007

8:00 am - 6:00 pm                   LITA Blogger's Room: WCC  Room 154 B
10:30 am - 1:30 pm                 Program Planning Committee II: WCC  Room 156
10:30 am - 12 pm                    International Relations Committee: REN  Room 17
                                               ITAL Editorial Board Committee: WCC  Room 304
                                               Library Consortia and Systems Interest Group: REN  Room 13
                                               LITA National Forum Planning Committee II: CROW Farragut
12 p.m.  - 1:30 pm                  LITA National Forum Planning Committee (2008): CROW Farragut
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm                  Bylaw and Organization Committee II : WCC  Room 157
                                               MARBI Committee: CAP  South American
                                               Open Source Systems Interest Group: MET  Exec. Boardroom
1:30 pm - 5:30 pm                  Using Metadata Standards in Digital Libraries: Implementing METS, MODS,
                                               PREMIS and MIX: CAP  Congressional/Senate

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

8:00 am - 6:00 pm                     LITA Bloggers Room: WCC  Room 154 B
1:00 pm - 4:30 pm                     Board of Directors II: WCC  Room 154 A