Notes from the 2006 SIG-LT Meeting

November 6, 2006

Attending: Marie Radford (mradford @ scils.rutgers.edu ), Lynn Silipigui Connaway (cibbawak @ oclc.org), Heather O'Daniel (hodaniel @ lrri.org), Pascal Calarco (pcalarco @ nd.edu), Rafal Kasprowski (rkasprowski @ uh.edu), and Janet Arth, recorder (arth @ umn.edu)

  1. Janet will take notes for this meeting.
  2. Rafal will continue as SIG LT chair.
  3. Janet volunteered to work on the SIG LT web page, Rafal will facilitate the transfer.
  4. The remainder of the meeting was spent raising and discussing possible programs for the 2007 Annual Meeting. These ideas, with interested parties noted in parentheses, include:
    1. Millennials' behavior and preferences: implications for systems and service design (Marie presented this idea for Jeffrey Pomerantz)
    2. Next generation library catalogs, e.g., Open WorldCat, NCSU, Ex Libris's Primo, and the work of the U Rochester work on the eXtensible Catalog (Pascal and Janet; Lynn could identify possible speakers with respect to Open WorldCat)
    3. Knowledge bases for E-Reference (Lynn)
    4. Digital Rights Management systems: how they work; how they affect scholarly communication; technical, social and legal aspects (Rafal)
    5. Digital repositories; including, but not necessarily limited to, how to best facilitate self-archiving (Heather)
    6. MS Sharepoint as a collaboration platform in a non-profit environment (Heather)
  5. Rafal will take these ideas to the Tuesday morning all SIG meeting.