{"id":3081,"date":"2016-07-28T15:33:09","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T15:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hsli.org\/?p=3081"},"modified":"2016-07-28T15:33:09","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T15:33:09","slug":"registration-open-for-2016-lita-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/registration-open-for-2016-lita-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Registration Open for 2016 LITA Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(via Mark Beatty, ALA)<\/p>\n<p>Join us in Fort Worth, Texas, from November 17 to 20, at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.omnihotels.com\/hotels\/fort-worth\/meetings\/lita-forum-fall-2016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Omni Fort Worth Hotel<\/a>\u00a0downtown, for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/forum.lita.org\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2016 LITA Forum<\/a>. This is a three-day education and networking event featuring three preconferences, three keynote sessions, more than 55 concurrent sessions, and 25 poster presentations. It&#8217;s the 19th annual gathering of the highly-regarded LITA Forum for technology-minded information professionals. Meet with your colleagues involved in new and leading-edge technologies in the library and information technology field. Registration is limited in order to preserve the important networking advantages of a smaller conference. Attendees take advantage of the informal Friday evening reception, networking dinners and other social opportunities to get to know colleagues and speakers.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.lita.org\/#tile_speakers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keynote Speakers<\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cecily Walker, Vancouver Public Library<\/li>\n<li>Waldo Jaquith, U.S. Open Data<\/li>\n<li>Tara Robertson, @tararobertson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.lita.org\/#tile_schedule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Preconference Workshops<\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Librarians Can Code! A &#8216;Hands-On&#8217; Computer Programming Workshop Just for Librarians&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Letting the Collections Tell Their Story: Using Tableau for Collection Evaluation&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information about conference rates, and to register, go\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/forum.lita.org\/registrationtravel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(via Mark Beatty, ALA) Join us in Fort Worth, Texas, from November 17 to 20, at the\u00a0Omni Fort Worth Hotel\u00a0downtown, for the\u00a02016 LITA Forum. This is a three-day education and networking event featuring three preconferences, three keynote sessions, more than 55 concurrent sessions, and 25 poster presentations. It&#8217;s the 19th annual gathering of the highly-regarded&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences-and-meetings-non-hsli"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}