Saturday June 23, 2007 8:00 – 9:00 am
Washington Convention Center 209
- 1. Introductions all around
- President Bonnie Postelwaithe
- Vice President Mark Beatty
(I was stuck on a long bus and missed these 1st three) - Executive Director Mary Taylor
- LITA experiences 5% growth this year
- Mostly student members, we need to help our new mebers find their place in LITA
- National Forum in Nashville was a success, see you in Denver
- 4 Regional Institutes this year
- Mosly licensed by consortia and institutions
- Schuman Publishers will be publishing LITA Guides
- So LITA gets 10% discounts from Schumann and ALA Editions LITA publications
- LITA-L moved to Sympa
- LITA experiences 5% growth this year
- Program Planning Chair Gail Clement
Spoke about how LITA’s PPC is seen by other Division’s groups as a good model
LITA PPC 1 year process is nimble, yet has a clear process to catch and fix omissions and errors - LITA Web Manager David Altenhof
We’ve changed to the new CMS (first member unit to do so), it’s been a controlled crash so far 🙂
Discussion about LITA site errors — if you’re having a problem, please please please report the problem to ALA IT or Help Desk (just a quick email with error and date & time of error will do)
LITA Blog is alive and well, 27 volunteers covering >32 sessions - New Business / Questions
Adjourned to Breakouts sessions
Peter Murray
Filling in the early gaps…
Mark noted that almost all of the committees have been populated and that he has a few people “in the wings” if a committee needs to be repopulated due to people dropping off. Contact him should you need help in this area.
Mark
I find it quite interesting all the talk lately about welcoming new members and helping them find a place to fit in the organization. I must also say that I am very glad to see it.
I say that as a member in his 1st year who received not a word of any sort (email, journal,…) from LITA for a full 6 months after joining. Despite that, I have no doubt LITA will be wanting their renewal fee at the normal time. I’m also pretty sure that I won’t be providing that until LITA gets a handle on this issue, which I’d say is probably bigger than you even think.
I do wish LITA well in this and all of their endeavors. Just not enough to throw away more of my limited dollars.
Mark
I wanted to add an update that I have been contacted by LITA and that official steps are being taken to preclude whatever disconnect happened in my membership from happening to anyone else.
I have been personally welcomed into the fold and look forward to my future time with LITA.