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DATE: 1/24/2009
GROUP: Assessment and Research Committee
CHAIRS: Diane Bisom, Bonnie Postlethwaite
REPORTER: Bonnie Postlethwaite
CONFERENCE: Midwinter
MEETING: Committee meeting
ATTENDEES: 12
CURRENT ACTIVITIES: Discussion Items & Actions:

Approved minutes from prior meeting.
Mary Taylor presented data files on LITA membership (available on Committee’s Google docs site).  Available data points cover various parameters, such as membership in other divisions; number of programs; etc.  Data [...]

DATE: 1/25/2009
GROUP: Technology and Access Committee
CHAIR: David Nutty
REPORTER: David Nutty
CONFERENCE: Midwinter
MEETING: Committee meeting
ATTENDEES: 9
CURRENT ACTIVITIES: Planning for a program at ALA Annual Chicago has been the main focus of the committee prior to and at the Midwinter Meeting in Denver.  The committee has focused the topic to Net Neutrality.  The committee has tentative commitments (later [...]

DATE: 1/24/2009
GROUP: Education Committee
CHAIRS: David Ward, Mandy Havert
REPORTER: David Ward
CONFERENCE: Midwinter
ATTENDEES: 12
CURRENT ACTIVITIES: LITA Education combined with Regional Institutes in the past year.  We spent from Annual 08 – Midwinter 09 reviewing our charge and creating organizational documents to track and help guide the newly combined committee’s role.
Part of this involved assigning committee members as [...]

DATE: 1/23/2009
GROUP: LITA/Brett Butler Entrepreneurship Award
CHAIR: Martin Halbert
REPORTER: Martin Halbert
CONFERENCE: Midwinter
ATTENDEES: 5
CURRENT ACTIVITIES: The LITA Brett Butler Award Committee met on Saturday, January 24, 2009, at 1:30 PM in the Colorado Convention Center room 712.  Several members were absent because of budget cuts in travel at their institutions.  Attending were: Nancy Colyar (Past Chair), Martin [...]

I’m posting an abbreviated report here because, from the look of it, the committee report form (which should show up on LITA-L) automagically combines all those carefully-prepared paragraphs into one big ugly paragraph. Ah, the wonders of automation…
Anyway: We had five people at the single 2009 ALA Midwinter Meeting session–two committee members (Judy Jeng and [...]

This time around for Top Tech Trends we were able to stream the video, but we weren’t ignoring the audio either! Here’s just an MP3 of the session, edited a tiny bit for length and able to be loaded on to your favorite portable audio player.
I apologize in advance for too much keypress noise on [...]

 

 Top Tech Trends Midwinter 2009 [98:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (7070)

I want to thank everyone who participated in this years LITA Town Hall meeting and remind you that you can continue to participate on Twitter. I will continue to follow #litath09, the tag assigned to the Town Meeting, so if you want to add to the conversation please do. I’m listening.
Here are the questions [...]

LJ gives commentary and congratulations to Top Tech Trends for its innovative live broadcasting of this Midwinter’s conversation with LITA trendsters, and sees a model for future ALA events and conferences.

DATE: 1/25/2009
GROUP: Web Coordinating Committee
CHAIR: Jean Rainwater
REPORTER: Jean Rainwater
CONFERENCE: Midwinter
MEETING: Committee meeting
ATTENDEES: 8
CURRENT ACTIVITIES:

At the Midwinter meeting the WCC discussed the need for clarification and coordination of web communication. Meeting reports and minutes are frequently posted to a combination of LITA website, wiki, and blog. The WCC recommends that the LITA wiki be [...]

Join us virtually at the LITA Town Hall Meeting. If you’re in Denver, we’re in Korbel 2C.
LITA Town Hall Meeting MW 2009
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