Lita 2008: five-minute madness

Incorporating ICT into a New Vision for Caribbean LibrariesPresenter: Gracelyn Cassell
Delivers distance education for the West Indies — looked at the library situations in 15 countries. The libraries have inadequate budgets, limited facilities, small and dated collections, poor technology, under-trained staff, and inadequate services. However, the libraries are eager for dialogue, willing to listen to suggestions, strong interest in training, and the librarians are craving refresher courses.
The university has capacity for training, as well as tele- and video-conferences. Need to use the resources of the university to deliver training and services for the regional libraries.
How can LITA help? Provide on-site technical support (in the winter, of course).

Using Delicious to Select Teaching Materials CollaborativelyPresenter: Emily Molanphy
Sakai is their CMS (open source). Like it, but needed more multi-media and less PowerPoint. Asked library for help.
Wanted the links to the resources be easy to share, and to be able to annotate the links. Faceted using tag bundles, but the most important aspect is that the recipient can choose their access point.
Known issues: Need to share password for a single account. For:username is too limited because the tags and the description are stripped. Faceting is flawed because everything is listed alphabetically.
Good way to supplement personal meetings.

Help Systems Based on SolrPresenter: Krista Wilde
Solr is an open-source software that serves as a front-end access point to a database that returns queries in XML. Created a Solr instance specifically for help, and then created webforms for adding and modifying web pages with details about what pages or topics the help document is related to.
Wanted to make the help searchable and dynamic, to allow non-technical staff members to update and modify the pages, and using their tools to support their tools (they use Solr quite a bit). …

Tags: Education, Late, University

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