LITA Board of Directors

New LITA board members take office

Cindi Trainor, coordinator, Library Technology and Data Services, at Eastern Kentucky University, is the newly elected vice-president/president-elect of LITA.  Her term, and that of newly elected LITA board members, began at the conclusion of the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim last month. Trainor has been active in LITA since 2007, when she served on the LITA Library Hi Tech Award Committee and participated in the Blogs, Interactive GroupWare and Wikis Interest Group (BIGWIG).  Since then, Trainor has served on the Web Coordinating and the Top Tech Trends Committees and the Online Programming and Electronic Participation Implementation Task Forces.  As a director-at-large on the LITA Board, Trainor has served on the Executive Committee and has liaised with the Web Coordinating and the Assessment and Research Committees. “LITA’s members are its strength and its life, and I want to build on that by helping to transform LITA into an organization that is…

LITA Board of Directors

LITA Election Results

Please join us in congratulating the newly elected LITA Board members:     Cindi Trainor, Vice-President/President-Elect     Cody Hanson, Rachel Vacek, Directors-at-Large Additionally, the proposed changes to LITA Bylaws Section 1, Article IX, were adopted. This change requires the Nominating Committee to present the names of candidates to the Board of Directors at the Midwinter Meeting , instead of the Annual Conference, preceding an election. LITA members elected as ALA Councilors-at-Large include:  Aaron Dobbs, Mario M. Gonzalez, Joan S. Weeks, Karen G. Schneider, Eric D. Suess, and Courtney Louise Young

LITA Board of Directors

Online LITA Board Meeting: May 15

The LITA Board is meeting online on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 11:00 am CDT. Anyone may join the meeting by clicking the following link 10 minutes prior to the start of the meeting: https://wfu.webex.com/wfu/j.php?ED=151748557&UID=1241898872&PW=NZTU5NzQzYTMw&RT=MiM3 The meeting number is 640 602 152. You will be provided a few options for audio connectivity. If a password is required, enter the meeting password: LITA. Lauren Pressley, LITA Board director-at-large, is hosting this meeting. If you have any technical questions, please contact Lauren at pressllm (at) wfu.edu. The meeting agenda and documents will be posted in the LITA Board Connect Community. If you have any questions, recommendations, or wish to discuss any of this, please leave a comment.

2011

LITA Board Meetings Streamed from #ALA11

The LITA Board has voted to distribute a stream of the 2011 ALA Annual LITA Board meetings, and will be embedding the stream here on LITABlog! The two Board meetings are scheduled as follows: Board of Directors I: Saturday, June 25, 2011 – 8:00am – 12:00pm Board of Directors II: Monday, June 27, 2011 – 1:30pm – 5:30pm All of the documents relating to the Board meetings can be found here: 2011 Annual Conference Board Documents If you plan to attend the Board meetings virtually, we’d love to know who you are! Please fill out the following form in order to let us know: LITA Board Meeting Sign-Up Sheet The streaming video will be via the LITA Ustream channel, but we will embed a stream here as well as soon as we begin. Follow in either place!