Subject:  	LITA President's program
Date: 	Wed, 6 Jun 2007 13:30:35 -0400

From: 	Amira Aaron <aaaron@BRANDEIS.EDU>

 From Bonnie Postlethwaite, LITA President:

You are cordially invited to the LITA President’s program,* **_Tag! Your
IT!: Online Digital Audio Collections Meet PennTags._*
<http://p.web.umkc.edu/postlethwaiteb/prezprog/prezprog.html> The
program will take place Sunday, June 24, 2007, 4-5 pm, following the Top
Technology Trends (1-3pm) and the LITA Awards Reception (3-4pm), at the
Renaissance Mayflower Hotel’s Grand Ballroom.

My President’s Program is an interesting mash up of two hot topics:
digital libraries, in this case, digital audio libraries, and the social
tagging system PennTags. Historic sound recordings are an important part
of our national heritage. Digitizing historic recorded sound collections
for use on the web requires extensive indexing and access points. Using
social bookmarking and tagging in combination with standard subject
classification and indexing terms to create folksonomies creates a rich
networking of resources that greatly enhances access to the collection.
Chuck Haddix (Marr Sound Archivist at the University of Missouri Kansas
City) presents _The Voices of World War II_
<http://www.umkc.edu/lib/spec-col/ww2/index.htm> collection as a case
study of the creation of a digital library rich in historic spoken word
and music recordings and the integration of digital library records into
the online catalog for enhanced access. Michael Winkler (Director of
Information Technology and Digital Development of the University of
Pennsylvania) discusses _PennTags_ <http://tags.library.upenn.edu/>
using the UMKC digital audio collections to illustrate how it provides
increased access. PennTags is a social bookmarking system that enables
the creation of personalized, shared annotated bibliographies of
resources in the library catalog, licensed databases, digital libraries
and other Web resources using a combination of subject headings, index
terms, and personally assigned tags. PennTags is being enhanced to
provide specialized capabilities for tagging sound recordings.

I hope to see you all at Sunday Afternoon with LITA on June 24!

Bonnie Postlethwaite

President, Library and Information Technology Association
Associate Dean of Libraries
University of Missouri--Kansas City
214 Miller Nichols Library
800 East 51st St.
Kansas City, MO 64110-2499
postlethwaiteb@umkc.edu
816-235-1558
816-333-5584 (fax)
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Amira Aaron
Director for Information Resources
Brandeis University Library and
  Technology Services
415 South Street  MS045
Waltham, MA  02454
phone 781-736-4647
fax  781-736-4724
aaaron@brandeis.edu
lts.brandeis.edu