LITA BlogKaren Starr, Assistant Administrator for Development Services at the Nevada State Library & Archives, is the new vice-president/president-elect of LITA. Her term, and that of newly elected LITA board members, begins after the 2009 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, Ill., a few weeks ago.
Starr has served as a member of the LITA [...]
LITA needs a system or process to gather, post, and share LITA sponsored programs presented at conferences and events online.
Charge:
To explore and recommend a systematic approach to gather and post LITA programs presented at events such as ALA Annual Conference, LITA National Forum, LITA Camp, etc.
Identify the types of programs that are presented and [...]
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 [...]
Lita Town Meeting 2007 Report:
Including Results from the Group Snow Card Activity.
Big huge thanks to Michelle Boule for compiling the large stack of papers and cards into something that resembled an organized mass.
LITA Town Meeting
What does success look like for LITA and it’s members? Mark Beatty, LITA Vice President, gave a quick environmental scan. [...]
Election Results
Congratulations to the following members who have been elected to the LITA Board of Directors:
Vice President/President-Elect: Andrew Pace
Directors at Large (3 year terms): Mary Alice Ball and Susan Logue
Director at Large (1 year term): Karen Starr
LITA Councilor: Colby Riggs
Elected ALA Councilors who are LITA members:
Allene Hayes
Janet Swan Hill
Bernard Margolis
Catherine [...]
Welcome to the LITA Podcasts Election Series. For your listening pleasure, every few days a new group of LITA Officer hopefuls will be presented. Tune in here on LITABlog, via any RSS aggregator using our normal RSS feed, or now tune in via iTunes by clicking here or searching for LITA in the podcast area [...]
Can’t get enough of the podcasts from Midwinter? Want to know more about the folks running for various positions on the LITA Board? Podcasts of interviews with all the candidates for the LITA election will be available beginning March 15 when the ALA polls open. The podcasts will be posted here on [...]
The LITA Board is pleased to announce its sponsorship of Michelle Boule to the ALA Emerging Leaders Program. LITA had a number of excellent applicants. LITA has a very bright future with such bright, rising stars.
ALA has selected 100 participants for the 2007 program. Each participant will attend leadership workshops at [...]
ALA President Leslie Burger has announced a new Emerging Leaders Program to prepare 100 librarians new to the profession in leadership (http://lb.princetonlibrary.org/emerging_leaders.html). LITA is very pleased to announced that it has agreed to sponsor one individual in this Program. Are you:
–a current LITA member?
–no older than 35 OR have no more than five [...]
In this LITA’s 40th anniversary year, we have lost two icons to the profession who also served in LITA’s formative years as president. Henriette Avram passed away on April 22 and Frederick G. Kilgour passed on July 31. It’s hard to imagine today’s libraries without the work of these two giants of our [...]