The Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) President’s program at the 2019 ALA Annual Conference featured Meredith Broussard, professor of journalism at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Institute. She was previously an editor for the Philadelphia Enquirer, Slate, and Harper’s Magazine. Her talk was based on her book, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World.
Continue readingThe program “Diversity, Equity, and Justice Talks: In and Beyond the Library” took place at the 2019 ALA Annual Conference on Saturday, June 22. Sponsored by the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) Diversity and Inclusion Committee, the session featured three panelists: Christine Smith (collections services librarian at Concordia University), Monica Figueroa (music cataloging librarian at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), and JJ Pionke (applied health sciences librarian at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
Continue readingEvery ALA conference features lots of opportunities for the Resource Description and Access (RDA) community of practice to gather, and the 2019 ALA Annual Conference proved no exception. Linda Barnhart, RDA secretary, recaps the RDA Toolkit Redesign Workshop, RDA Forum, Committee on Cataloging: Description & Access meeting, and RDA Linked Data Forum.
Continue readingAt the 2019 ALA Annual Conference, two librarians from Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU), Trisha Prevett and Tim Kerber, hosted a panel discussion entitled “ABCs of Access: A Panel Discussion with Publisher, Aggregator, and University Press.” The panelists were Kim Mitchell (director of open access journals at SAGE Publishing), Frank Smith (director of Books at JSTOR), and Emma Waecker (senior product manager at EBSCO eBooks).
Continue readingOver fifty people attended the session “Streaming Video: Confronting Barriers to Sharing Between Libraries program” at the 2019 ALA Annual Conference. The program was co-sponsored by the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) Sharing and Transforming Access to Resources Section and the Film and Media Round Table (FMRT). The panel of presenters, all from the Auraria Library at the University of Colorado Denver, talked about their new SILLVR initiative (Streaming Interlibrary Loan for Video Resources).
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