2014 LITA Forum Schedule

Printable version [pdf]

WEDNESDAY, November 5, 2014

Registration 10:00am - 5:00pm, North Atrium

1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

PRECONFERENCE 1

Linked Data for Libraries - Alvarado A

Dean Blackmar Krafft and Jon Corson-Rikert

PRECONFERENCE 2 

Learn Python by Playing with Library Data - Alvarado B

Francis Kayiwa

THURSDAY, November 6, 2014

Registration 7:30am - 5:00pm, North Atrium

8:00 a.m. - Noon

PRECONFERENCE 1, cont.

Linked Data for Libraries - Alvarado A

Dean Blackmar Krafft and Jon Corson-Rikert

PRECONFERENCE 2, cont. 

Learn Python by Playing with Library Data - Alvarado B

Francis Kayiwa

1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

OPENING GENERAL SESSION: AnnMarie Thomas, Engineering Professor, University of St. Thomas

Franciscan Ballroom

2:30 p.m. - 3:10 p.m.

REFRESHMENT BREAK - Alvarado D/E

3:10 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

CONCURRENT SESSION 1

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood: Amigo’s E-Sources Project - Alvarado A

The user experience and its impact on virtual and physical spaces - Alvarado B

Consortial collaboration in the cloud: an innovative group implementation of Web-scale Management - Alvarado F

Collaborate to customize: a consortium’s journey - Alvarado G

LibraryBox: building, customizing, and implementing - Alvarado H

4:00 p.m. - 4:20 p.m.

BREAK

4:20 p.m. - 5:10 p.m.

CONCURRENT SESSION 2

EAD finding aids for discovery systems (and Boxbuilder files 1, 2 and 3) - Alvarado A

Testing on the tablet: usability of an academic library’s mobile site (notes) - Alvarado B

Migration to Kuali Open Library Environment: an early adopter’s experience - Alvarado F

CANCELLED - Breaking through firewalls: building support for learning commons concept on campus - Alvarado G

Collaborative discovery: the open discovery initiative in practice, the art of indexed search and what it means for your library - Alvarado H


6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

SPONSOR SHOWCASE RECEPTION - Alvarado D/E

8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.

GAME NIGHT - Alvarado C

FRIDAY, November 7, 2014

Registration 7:30 am – 5:00 pm, North Atrium    

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST & SPONSOR SHOWCASE - Alvarado D/E

9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.

GENERAL SESSION: Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President, OCLC Research and Chief Strategist

Franciscan Ballroom

Video

 

10:15 a.m. - 10:25 a.m.

BREAK

10:25 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.

CONCURRENT SESSION 3

Enhancing a university’s knowledge management using VIVO - Alvarado A

Does your website make your users fat? Reducing user’s cognitive load with easy to ingest web design - Alvarado B

Evaluating and Selecting Library Services Platform: Are you ready to shift? Where should you start? - Alvarado F

MetaArchive at 10: growing, diversifying, innovating - Alvarado G

Transformation: taking an academic library consortium to the clouds with OCLC’s WorldShare Management Services - Alvarado H

11:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

BREAK/SPONSOR SHOWCASE - Alvarado D/E

11:45 a.m. - 12:35 p.m.

CONCURRENT SESSION 4

Schema.org—what it means for you and your library! - Alvarado A

Lead your career: perspectives on libraries, technology and leadership - Alvarado B

Using software repositories to manage, integrate, curate and publish research data - Alvarado F

Scaling a network: resource sharing across State lines - Alvarado G

Implementing a library reading list tool in a learning management system - Alvarado H

12:35 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

LUNCH & SPONSOR SHOWCASE - Alvarado D/E

2:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.

CONCURRENT SESSION 5

Advancing data discovery: academic libraries and DataONE - Alvarado A

CANCELLED - What to do with 211 user stories: developing a discovery tool by and for our users - Alvarado B

Using Islandora for digital content delivery - Alvarado F

MOOC-ing up your institution’s IR collections - Alvarado G

Lightning Talks - Alvarado H

2:50 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

REFRESHMENT BREAK/SPONSOR SHOWCASE - Alvarado D/E

3:30 p.m. - 4:20 p.m.

CONCURRENT SESSION 6

CANCELLED - Telling your story using Google Fusion Tables and ArcGIS - Alvarado A

Targeted web analytics for decision making and problem solving (notes)- Alvarado B

What does your repository do? Understanding and calculating impact - Alvarado F

Technology Literacy Course for library staff: TLC goes a long way - Alvarado G

Library Lab: Improving Library Services and Transforming Organizational Culture - Alvarado H

4:00 p.m. –  5:30 p.m.

POSTER SESSIONS - East Atrium and Alvarado D/E

6:45 p.m. –  9:00 p.m. 

Networking Dinners - sign up & meet up at registration - join your colleagues for this social event

or

Kitchen Table Conversations - sign up & meet up at registration - contribute to the conversation about LITA strategic goals.

 

SATURDAY, November 8, 2014

Registration 8:00am – 11:00am, North Atrium

8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST - Alvarado D/E

9:00 - 9:50 a.m.

CONCURRENT SESSION 7

CANCELLED - of Books: Network Analysis of Library Catalogs - Alvarado A

Share and share alike: applying social media optimization (SMO) to enhanced web content and connect with users - Alvarado B

EgoSystem: outreach via social search - Alvarado F

Up and running: making the library’s digital services visible on campus - Alvarado G

The death of the library website redesign - Alvarado H

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon

CLOSING GENERAL SESSION:  Kortney Ryan Ziegler, Founder Trans*h4ck

Franciscan Ballroom