Oct

2010

Twitter highlights for Friday of the 2010 LITA National Forum

Were you unable to attend the 2010 LITA National Forum in Atlanta? Find twitter streams a bit overwhelming, lacking in context, or chronologically confusing?

Here is your solution: a re-organized, select set of relevant and/or funny tweets for each of the talks given on Friday. Please post comments if I've missed any particularly good tweets!

I'll also be posting links to the slides, when I can find them. I've also posted similar summaries for the other days of the LITA conference, including: Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Preconference I: Redesigning a Website Using Information Architecture Principles (cont.), Jenny Emanuel

Jenny Emanuel, University of Illinois was a dynamite speaker on information architecture Already made changes she suggested. #litaforum [hleman]

Preconference II: Virtualize IT: Laying the Foundation for the Library of the Future (cont.), Maurice York

virtualized storage - speed, utilization and redundancy is really important. Can't get 100% utilization out of your storage. [mfrisque]
If you can dedup the files you can increase the speed and utilization of virtual storage. Netapp one app that can do this $$ [mfrisque]
desktop comp resource intensive in virt env - apps are resource hogs, hit the server hard, need lots of resources & storage [mfrisque]
the specs for thin client lot different than desktop computer. Like learning a new language when learning the thin client config [mfrisque]
server graphic cards are minimal on servers keep that in mind when choosing your computer client. [mfrisque]
things always run faster on the hardware than the software in virtualization. [mfrisque]
attending @mauriceyork 's presentation: virtualizing it. it's a pretty easy sell after this week's active directory migration. [debra]
old model of IT support desktop/server/helpdesk silos must change will have to work together in a new way to support desktop virt [mfrisque]
Refresh cycle on thin clients 6-8 years. Make sure to choose vendor you think will be around that long. [mfrisque]
While total cost of virtual desktops is lower the costs shift. Enterprise capital expenditures increase bcs need more servers. [mfrisque]
Costs savings increase in virtual desktop env however it is extended over a longer period of time .... could take up to 6 years. [mfrisque]
Additional savings of desktop virtualization can be seen in energy savings. Its green! [mfrisque]
It is! RT @julian2 This preconference on desktop virtualization looks hot. Stuff I've thought a little about. http://ff.im/rqoHN [ mfrisque]
Keep user density rations high -- that is where desktop virtualization savings are realized [mfrisque]
Provide offline support for user profiles in desktop virtualization. [mfrisque]
Watch the protoc role="navigation"ol development for desktop virtualization. All have room for improvement. Hope promise will be realized soon. [mfrisque]
Remember to respect peoples uniqueness in virtual desktop setup. Staff do not want to be linked clones (BSG reference!) [mfrisque]
Use the opp when moving to new environment to get rid of the old bad desktop management practices. Don't carry them with you. [mfrisque]
Big question why do you want to virtualization - save $, save energy, etc. to be cool is not a good reason! [mfrisque]
Virtualization preconference is done. Great Job Maurice. Thanks for all of your hard work. It was greatly appreciated. [mfrisque]

Opening Keynote: How Wikipedia Really Works, and What This Means for the Nature of "Truth", Amy Bruckman

Overhead at #litaforum http://twitpic.com/2tohfs [ jeanphilli] (chandelier picture)
Spam on wikipedia. Watchlist to keep an eye on pages you care about. [adellefrank]
"I found out my great uncle died on wikipedia" Amy Bruckner [jeanphilli]
Learn by co-constructing personally meaningful projects. [adellefrank]
"I found out my great uncle died on wikipedia" Amy Bruckner /"he was undead for a while bc there was no citation" [adellefrank RT @jeanphilli]
Co-constructing meaningful projects...useful for workforce development initiatives from the library? MEANINGFUL that is. [danhlawrence]
refereed journal articles out of date the minute they are published, wikipedia updated/corrected every second [amyddiane]
A peer reviewed journal is out of date the minute it is published. Wiki articles on popular topics are updated constantly. [mfrisque]
If a fact is true, but has no citation...wikipedia entry may be removed. What is truth? Social agreement/peer review. [adellefrank]
Wikipedia's ONLINE refs checked more often and quickly than PRINT (cause we're all lazy). [adellefrank]
New tool from GA Tech: Prove It (gives wysiwyg for Wikipedia, so refs are easier to put in) [adellefrank]
legitimate peripheral participation [ncolyar]
Becoming wikipedian: starts with one edit, gets a watch list, begins to care about site as a whole [acmorton]
Amy Bruckman "strangely satisfying to find something wrong and fix it" should be a techie motto! [adellefrank]
LITA Forum Keynote with Amy Bruckman on Wikipedia http://bit.ly/97k6Kg (Broadcasting live at http://ustre.am/ovPB) [ LITAForum]
Loops implyiing facts happen. No cite Wiki article, cited in media then cited in Wiki. Sounds like some peer review research ;p [danhlawrence]
Harder to contribute to Wikipedia now, more likely to be deleted. :( Now have to maintain social ties and negotiate politics. [adellefrank]
creation & sharing of personally meaningful public artifact as learning activity leads to deep engagement - Bruckman [amyddiane]
Amy Bruckman "writing can be a very powerful way to LEARN". True: can't teach without really understanding first. [adellefrank]
Wikipedia provides an opportunity for librarians to help bring clarity. [acmorton]
What is truth right now even experts are having a hard time agreeing. [mfrisque]
Teachable moment for librarians: when the nature of proof is critical TO the USER. [adellefrank]
ProveIt wikipedia plugin: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/elc/proveit [acmorton]
Just learned more about Wikipedia and how it actually works. Apparently more reliable than people think. [Librarian_Liesl]
"Always open to deliberate manipulation by an organized subgroup...so form a subgroup to prove your truth" Bruckman [adellefrank]
Is there a gender divide in Wikipedia editors/admins? [adellefrank]
Useful article as followup to wikipedia talk Advice for scientists who want to become Wikipedia editors http://bit.ly/d3ruM3 [hleman]
All 3 keynotes were good but WikiTruth was best. Draws attention to insular/self-referencing nature of academia. Thanks Amy! [RschDev]

Rethinking the Library Game: Creating an Alternate Reality with Social Media, Jason J. Battles, Valerie Glenn, Lindley Shedd (University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa)

http://connect.ala.org/files/43032/librarygame_ppt_48206.ppt (Presentation Slides)

Alternate Reality Games + librarians? Awesome. [Librarian_Liesl]

Integrating Scholarly Repository Services into Consortial Organizations and Statewide University Systems, Marlee Givens, Keith Gilbertson (Georgia Institute of Technology)

http://connect.ala.org/files/93144/integrating_scholarly_repository_services_pptx_26542.pptx (Presentation Slides - PowerPoint)

http://connect.ala.org/files/93144/integrating_scholarly_repository_services_pdf_18859.pdf (Presentation Slides - PDF)

Consortial repositories: brilliant idea! Go, Georgia! [adellefrank]
Central repository 4 METADATA (by discipline) key 2 metasearch cross diff IRs in GA. Reduce barriers 2 use and 2 digitization [adellefrank]
Theme for dspace by non-designer difficult. C my poster on Sat. to help w this problem. [adellefrank]
Built in oai-pmh harvester in dspace 1.6 [adellefrank]
Duracloud cloud hosting for fedora and dspace (alterative to amazon cloud) [adellefrank]
Ex plugin contribution: Import full-text pubmed cental articles so can show off local scholars natl work (4 dspace) [adellefrank]
Key ga tech dspace contrib: mapping tool so can map local repository records to consortium by discipline. [adellefrank]
http://www.library.gatech.edu/gkr project site; http://gkr-dev.library.gatech.edu training & staging site [adellefrank]
Statistics key in getting contributor buy-in for inst repositories. [adellefrank]
Difficulties in handling diff content formats in inst repositories? [adellefrank]

Next Generation Vendor Discovery Platforms; Jason Vaughan (University of Nevada - Las Vegas)

at #litaforum next gen discovery session. investigations at unlv. [ acbtanya]
Jason Vaughan (UNLV) session packed. Too old for floor-sitting. [rulebrit]

Engaging Users and Easing Them Into Your Task-Oriented Library Website Redesign; Justin G. Blum (University of Nevada, Reno)

no tweets, anybody takes notes on this one?

The Other IT Crowd: Managing and Developing Accidental Geeks in the Library; Beatrice Pulliam (Providence College)

Listening to @beatricepulliam talk about "The Other IT Crowd" at #litaforum [varnum]
QR code made out of thumbtacks. Cool. [mfrisque]
The 23 things project helped build collaboration among staff/departments and broke down the dept silos. [mfrisque]
23 things implementation first picked fun and functional projects that had a natural home for continued support once implemented [mfrisque ]
23 things - experiment and if something is not working be okay with letting it go. [mfrisque ]
v cool. & PC has an excellent libguide on QR codes. RT @mfrisque: QR code made out of thumbtacks. Cool. [lisacarlucci]
check it out http://yfrog.com/5fv7tbj RT @mfrisque: QR code made out of thumbtacks. Cool. [amyddiane]

“Quick Search” it is Not: Testing Response Times of Traditional and NextGen Library Catalogs; Nina McHale, Margaret Brown-Sica (University of Colorado Denver)

http://connect.ala.org/files/34538/quick_search_it_is_not_mchale_pptx_83240.pptx (Presentation Slides)

Getting ready to present "Quick Search" It Is Not: Testing Response Times if NextGen Catalogs. Room 203, c'mon over! #fb [ninermac]
loving #litaforum. Best quote of day "every min. spent searching is 1 less min. spent evaluating" the website/source/research. [annehaines RT @jshira09]

Library One Search: Implementing Web-Scale Discovery in an Academic Research Library; Tammy Allgood (Arizona State University)

http://connect.ala.org/files/90278/library_one_search_lita2010_pdf_12610.pdf (Presentation Slides)

Come and hear Tammy Allgood from Arizona State University share their experiences with Summon at #litaforum at 3:30pm in room 204 [serialsolutions]
FRO (Floor Room Only) at Tammy Allgood's talk on single search boxes on academic library sites. [varnum]
OneSearch - faculty wanted an easy way to search for known items so they added search tabs to to search box area. [mfrisque]
One search - you spend lots of time and money implementing these tool so spend time creating and imp marketing plan. [mfrisque]
One search - using goto meeting to perform usability test for people who are not on site. [mfrisque]
One search- vendor said and their data supports database usage went up after it was implemented [mfrisque]

What Can the Cloud Do for Your Teaching? Using Cloud Technologies in Library Instruction; Chanitra Bishop (Indiana University - Bloomington)

http://connect.ala.org/files/48729/whatcan_pdf_20899.pdf (Presentation Slides)

Thanks 2 everyone for attending my session on teaching w/ cloud technologies!! http://bit.ly/cloudteaching [etlib]

Click Analytics: Why Every Click Counts; Tabatha Farney (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs)

http://connect.ala.org/files/50243/click_analytics_pptx_18465.pptx (Presentation Slides)

Def "click analytics" where people are clicking on a specific web page - is visualization of this data to make easy fixes [adellefrank]
Free not nec = right tool. Google analytics site overlay not pretty & doesn't track outbound links (catalog), but is clear [adellefrank]
Can't export or easily segment site overlay in google analytics [adellefrank]
Crazyegg reasonably priced hosted service does click analytics ONLY. So does well. [adellefrank]
11 variables to segment click analytics data in crazyegg. Provides proof to administrators of success/problems [adellefrank]
Images more intuitive to click on than text in web pages. [adellefrank]
Confetti view can highlight which areas are harder for users to find, so can fix. Visual of crazyegg reports communicates well [adellefrank]
Can't export from crazyegg analytics [adellefrank]
$19/month for crazyegg basic subscription. Be aware of page limits [adellefrank]
Piwik open source analytics software stored on YOUR servers. [adellefrank]
Piwik has no click analytics, but can combine with open source clickheat. [adellefrank]
Clickheat problem causes page lag, especially when have other tracking scripts on pages. [adellefrank]
None of 3 products for click analytics has export functionality. :( [adellefrank]
still need usability tests to discover WHY things don't work, click analytics not enough [adellefrank]
Data can drive development. Tracking what mobile users are using can lead to focus for a new mobile site [adellefrank]
Tough to track outbound links. Important when much of lib site send users offsite to catalog, databases, etc. [adellefrank]
For real analytics learning, read kaushik's web analytics 2.0 book [adellefrank]
To make google site overlay track outbound, need intermediate page hacks [adellefrank]

OARS: Toward Automating the Ongoing Subscription Review; Jonathan H. Harwell (Georgia Southern University), Geoffrey P. Timms (Mercer University)

http://connect.ala.org/files/27161/oars_toward_automating_the_ongoing_subscription_re_16284.pdf (Presentation Slides)

no tweets :(

eXtensible Catalog Drupal Toolkit – Take Control of Library Websites and Metadata; Péter Király (eXtensible Catalog)

http://connect.ala.org/files/92836/the_extensible_catalog_drupal_toolkit_presentatio_11379.odp (Presentation Slides)

http://connect.ala.org/files/92836/the_extensible_catalog_drupal_toolkit_paper__43638.rtf (Paper)

Next eXtensible catalog drupal toolkit [jenmasc]
Cck node 4 http://drupal.org/project/xc instead of metadata nodes for denver library. I missed the diff here? [adellefrank]
Given power and well-structuredness of extensible catalog, I hope it has good training videos & documentation! [adellefrank]
Possible php security issue with theming work-around in extensible catalog, but is optional feature. [adellefrank]
Very advanced customization of search index with web forms (no coding) in extensible catalog. [adellefrank]
For people who have to do web design, but are not designers: my funnily-sketched poster has tips for YOU. Saturday 4-6 [adellefrank]
Map to location of resource/book in extensible catalog. [adellefrank]
I wonder when extensible catalog will be in drupal 7? It correctly uses a lot of other drupal modules and has many dependencies [adellefrank]
Well-thought-out interface field choices for user's account in extensible catalog. I.e. Overdue is next to renew option. [adellefrank]
Query, text field and date facet types exist and can be customized in extensible catalog for drupal. [adellefrank]
Can create different facet settings and options for diff groups of users in extensible catalog [adellefrank]
"Date facet can be narrowed to milliseconds, but in library catalogs there's no need, so extensible catalog just goes to year" [adellefrank]
Really impressed with "keyword in context" feature in extensible catalog search for drupal.
Worldcat identities page is slow, but interesting. [adellefrank]
LOVING details of XC Schema tab for bibliographic record in extensible catalog! And that XC focuses on SUBJECT for related items. [adellefrank]
We added exporting features in August. http://bit.ly/bJwgEr If you have any questions, contacts us at http://tl.gd/69r7n0 [RT @crazyegg @adellefrank]
FRBR still work in progress for displaying related items in extensible catalog [adellefrank]
Does AJAX use in eXtensible catalog (I assume jquery) slow down interface response? [adellefrank]
Great keyword phrase display in search results and bookcover for eXtensible catalog. [adellefrank]
EXtensible catalog demo site will be live in a few weeks. Nicely faceted search options on left! [adellefrank]
Drupal eXtensible catalog toolkit will eventually provide SINGLE user interface for all sources of library content. [adellefrank]
NCIP is protoc role="navigation"ol for circulation status, used in eXtensible catalog [adellefrank]
eXtensible catalog puts new front-end on existing ILS MARC records [adellefrank]
Drupal EXtensible Catalog has large partners, positive for long term sustainability. [adellefrank]
eXtensible catalog for drupal uses FRBR model, takes RDA into account [adellefrank]
Can change no. of links displayed for specific facets in extensible facets. [adellefrank]

Lightning Talks 1

http://connect.ala.org/files/63002/lightning_talk_shortened_database_urls_78434.pdf (Presentation Slides by Erin White)

oh lightening talks where ppl just stand up and volunteer. my kind of ppl. [wanderingeyre]
in the medical field or interested in it and need a grant? look at scangrants.com gr8 resource #lighteningtalks [wanderingeyre]
hint.fm/seer/ steals the show at the first lightning round [acbtanya]
Way cool: http://hint.fm/seer [varnum]
I just tried adding a link to ScanGrants to the Wikipedia page on "Research Funding." We'll see if it gets deleted again. Sigh! [helman]

On the Go - What Your Users Really Want; Diane Butler (Rice University)

http://connect.ala.org/files/88894/on_the_go_rtf_15350.rtf (contains links to slides)

Users don't understand term "interlibrary loan" (in mobile session) [jeanphilli]

DLO to Go: Fostering Instructional Use of New Media; Nardina N. Mein, Jon McGlone , Joshua Neds-Fox (Wayne State University)

http://connect.ala.org/files/61259/dlotogo_pdf_27497.pdf (Presentation Slides)

no tweets :(

Understanding Undergraduate Millennial Student Search Behaviors; Brandi Porter (Mount Aloysius College)

Google has absolutely programmed undergraduate search behavior. Interesting implications for interfaces. / Brandi Porter talk, [ bmljenny]

Making your IT skills virtual: tools for learning how to implement and administer cloud-based systems; Erik Mitchell, Jean-Paul Bessou, Kevin Gilbertson (Wake Forest University)

http://connect.ala.org/files/74205/making_your_it_skills_virtual_mitchell_gilbertson__58597.ppt (Presentation Slides)

Absolutely packed house for Erik Mitchell et al from Wake Forest talking cloud. Floor room only! [julian2]
Good survey of the different cloud models. Private v public, software v platform v infrastructure. Some can mix. [julian2]
SaaS - Serials Solutions. PaaS - your typical web host. IaaS - Microsoft Azure, Amazon EC2. [julian2]
To go cloud, service level agreements are HUGE. Also, security (LDAP, SSL, keys, etc.) and user access. [julian2]
Best part of IaaS cloud - if you outgrow your digs, it's easy to move to a bigger house. No pesky movers and packing required. [julian2]
If you want to do cloud, and your library doesn't do its own IT, get to know monitoring, backups, help desk. Don't skimp on this! [julian2]

Fun Memes & Closing Thoughts

More crossover between #LITAForum #ALA and #ghc10 #ghc2010. With #ghc10 tweetage, saw a lot of the word "inspirational." http://ff.im/roUNC [ julian2]
Fun observation of the day. Our hotel is shaped like the Cylon Basestar ship. [mfrisque]
Answering my own question: Looks like Amy Bruckman is on a #ghc10 panel before #litaforum keynote later. http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~asb/ [ bradamant]
Corner bakery cafe, great 4 breakfast, waiting 4 #litaforum [ jeanphilli]
2011 proposals call at reg table. Paul Keith is 2011 chair [ adellefrank]
long breaks are purposeful for networking and connecting [adellefrank]
nope, just everywhere else, no wifi in mtg rooms (read on lita connect page) [jenmasc @acmorton]
Living the #litaforum vicariously through Twitter [infogena]
By default, I stick out. However, I'm easy to find today. By pure coincidence, I'm wearing LITA's colors today (teal and black). [julian2]
Never seen so many iPads in one room before [rulebrit]
If you notice name tags with red text it means they are first time #litaforum attendees. Make sure to say hi to them make them feel welcome. [mfrisque]
Anyone want to split a taxi to the braves game? scaturro@adelphi.edu [LITAForum RT @AlicatServer: @LITAForum]
Spent the morning at #ghc10, & the afternoon at #litaforum. The differences: more iPads & paper at the forum, more laptops at Grace Hopper. [chawnerb]
tired, but looking fwd to digging into conference. Props 2 LITA for only handing out a foldable schedule. Look Ma, no paper! [beatricepulliam]
Thanks to LITA Office for pulling off surprise visit (at least to me!) by the Coca Cola Bear. Still smiling thinking about it. [mfrisque]
Shots are up from Coca Cola mascot's appearance at #litaforum - http://bit.ly/azdAaM [bmljenny]