Home LITA Membership LITA Interest Groups Emerging Technologies Midwinter Meeting 2005

CHAIR: Rose Nelson

REPORTER: Rose Nelson

CONFERENCE: Midwinter

MEETING: Business Meeting

ATTENDEES: 68

CURRENT ACTIVITIES: ETIG will be sponsoring a program on Institutional Repositories for ALA in Chicago. The program will focus on policy issues and best practices for implementing an institutional repository. We will also be cosponsoring with Open Source Systems I.G. a preconference and general session on Shibboleth and Internet2 for the upcoming ALA in Chicago.

Recap of the Top Tech Trends

Storage space-it's becoming cheaper and smaller. How do libraries respond to patron's need to create better use of their external storage, whether it be an Ipod or flash drive?

frbr-functional requirements for biblographic records in OPAC. Blogs and other bubble up technologies such as RSS. What are the implications for libraries? How are libraries making use of these technologies?

Portability of data-with the proliferation of handheld devices, how do we design interfaces to our library information databases that will work with all types of devices?

Digital Rights Management-sharing playlists? How does this affect content creation or dissemination?

Delicious Library-people creating their own libraries. How do we manage the rights on this?

Blogs seen as light weight content management systems. An example of this is the New York Historical Society creating staff blogs.

FUTURE ACTIVITIES: sponsor a program on Google Print and Google Scholar for Annual 2005 in Chicago; begin a concerted effort to build a robust online community through forums that debate and promote emerging technologies; begin development of a program on the creation, impact and uses of blogs in libraries.