“Shift Happens” Preservation, entertainment in the library, and integrating Library 2.0 into a Web 2.0 world dominated the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) National Forum in Nashville, TN, October 26-29, 2006. With 378 registered attendees from 43 states and several countries, including Sweden and Trinidad, attendance held steady with previous years, though the Internet [...]
In yet another crowded ballroom, the men (and woman) of LITA prognosticated on the future of libraries and technology. Walt Crawford moderated the panel and spoke in absentia for Sarah Houghton. Her trends were: Returning power to content owners An OCLC ILS with RedLightGreen as the front-end Outreach online Karen Schneider listed four: Faceted Navigation, [...]
This oversubscribed session (I sat on the floor, as did many others) featured Stephen Abram of Sirsi/Dynix/SLA president and Joe Janes of the University of Washington debating the future of search, moderated by LJ columnist Roy Tennant. Abram asked a pointed question, which decided the debate early, “Were libraries ever about search? Search was rarely [...]
Ben Bunnell, Manager of Google Book Search and author of an upcoming Last Byte column in the July NetConnect (no link yet), described how Google cofounders Larry Page and Marissa Mayer originally conceived of the book scanning project while they were in graduate school at Stanford. Using a metronome, they estimated that a 300 page [...]
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Jay Datema has an MBA from Binghamton University (2007), a Masters in Library and Information Science from Dominican University (1999), and a BA in Literature from Wheaton College (1995).
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Zeldman, Jeffrey. Designing with Web standards. Indianapolis Ind.: New Riders, 2007.
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“With the NSA and TSA examining search, banking, and phone records, library privacy ethics are being challenged like no recent time in history.”
– ALA 2006: Future of Search
6 July 2006
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