LITA National Forum: A Conference Report

摘要

The Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) held its National Forum in St Louis, Missouri from October 7-10, 2004. The theme for this year's Forum was "10 Years of Connectivity: Libraries, the World Wide Web, and the Next Decade." This three-day educational event included preconferences, general sessions, and more than 30 concurrent sessions. The following is a summary of the Forum. There were three preconferences at the Forum, the first preconference was presented by Frank Cervone from Northwestern University titled, "Developing a Culture of Assessment in Library Information Technology Services." Frank described how libraries are increasingly being called on to demonstrate their impact on their services and outcomes of their parent institution or community, information technology services within the Library must be able to do the same. He stated that a critical component in making this happen is to adopt a model of continuous service assessment that uses user-centered decision making in order to gather relevant requirements data and information.