Friday, February 13, 2015

CFP: ALA Annual 2015 Presentation - Data-Driven Libraries: Capturing Users’ Behavior across Library Platforms (LITA Heads of Library Technology (HoLT))



The LITA Heads of Library Technology (HoLT)  Interest Group seeks 3 – 4 panelist to join the presentation at ALA Annual 2015

When: Saturday, June 27, 2015 1:00 to 2:30 pm
Where: San Francisco, Room TBD


Presentation TitleData-Driven Libraries: Capturing Users’ Behavior across Library Platforms

Presentation Description: Libraries are seeking solutions to track how patrons interact with libraries web resources to build data-driven services. The hard part is trying to capture users’ interaction across platforms (library discovery interface, library catalogs, subject databases, and others like social media). 

The LITA HoLT interest group will assemble a panel to discuss technologies and best practices to capture user’s interaction with web platforms, visualize the data in various ways.

Physical attendance is required for the presentation and/or attendance at ALA Annual 2015.

Deadline for proposal submission is March 30th, 2015.

Please submit proposals via the form  
 http://goo.gl/forms/Z2ISq1xyI7

Feel free to email us off the list for any questions you might have.

Thanks,

Robert Nunez, LITA HoLT IG Vice-Chair robert.nunez@marguette.edu
Hong Ma, LITA HoLT IG Chair hma2@luc.edu