Emerging Technologies
Instructional Design
Listed in:To create a forum where instructional design librarians and others interested in instructional design can meet and share ideas, discuss and recommend resources and tools, discuss issues related to instructional design in libraries and collaborate on projects.
Virtual Participation Resources
Listed in:To collect and display methods and technologies for enabling participation at a distance with the ALA and it's Divisions.
Technology Programming in Libraries: Innovation and Design
Listed in:This group is created in the belief that providing opportunities for library users to gain technological, digital, information and media literacies through technology programming is as important as providing storytimes and homework help services. In fact, it could be said that technology programs are simply storytimes for 21st century learners.
Government Information Interest Group
Listed in:A group for those interested in government information (federal, state, local, and international).
Various topics of interest include depository libraries, government information collections, open access, transparency, and preservation of government information, E-government, Government 2.0, and using social networks to collect and disseminate government information and more!
Blogs, Interactive Media, Groupware, and Wikis Interest Group (LITA BIGWIG)
Listed in:BIGWIG stands for the Blogs, Interactive Groupware Wikis Interest Group, but since its founding in 2005 BIGWIG has been the "Social Software" IG of LITA. Unlike most Interest Groups, BIGWIG is active throughout the year. We are responsible for maintaining the LITABlog, and LITA Wiki. Additionally, we have taken on several projects since our inception including conference blogging and podcasting, and podcasts of interviews with candidates for LITA offices.
Social Media Mavens
Listed in:To make all librarians, library employees, library patrons savvy consumers of Social Media in today's information zeitgeist.
Emerging Technologies Interest Group (LITA - Library & Information Technology Association)
Listed in:Takes an integrative approach in attempting to identify new technologies in order to promote discussion of their impact on library automation.
Virtual Communities and Libraries
Listed in:Provides a group within ALA for members interested in fostering the practice of library work, the visibility of libraries and library workers, and the extension of library services within online social networks, virtual worlds, and other communities of intention.
Next Generation Catalog Interest Group (LITA - Library and Information Technology Association)
Listed in:Gives LITA a discussion space devoted to developments in the library catalog, its nature and scope, and its interfaces.
Public Libraries Technology Interest Group (LITA - Library and Information Technology Association)
Listed in:Provides a forum for the discussion of current and emerging technologies: their development, implementation, management, staffing, value in the contexts of customer experience, and education in public libraries.
