- Welcome, Intro, General Update
* OITP is busy & being approached to do more work
* ALA Presidential Candidate visits:
— Davenport — Information Technology Policy is an area ALA will need to focus upon (she said more & I like her candidacy)
— Rettig — Technology is pervasive in the association and he would encourage conversations across the association to get consensus on technology concerns (he said more, too & I like his candidacy) - Gates Connectivity and E-Rate Project
* Gates wants their results fairly quickly
* Base data is not really available
* OITP has to do (contract out) the basic research as well as interpretation of the results - Digitization Project
Discussed background, goals & timeline, and a draft of principles that are already laid out in various current ALA policy, etc. - Participatory Networking Report
* Building methods to describe participatory networks
* Describe how libraries are facilitators of the conversation
* How the 2.0 movements affect the library and the conversation
* Recommendations
— Libraries must be active in these conversations (policy level, as well as mechanincs level)
— Understand the networks and create a test bed (shared services, skills provision, standing research agenda) - OITP Communications (Part of the District Dispatch)
* Blog
* Podcasts
* Second Life (ALA Washington Office) - Web Project
* Public Libraries and the Internet web-based custom report generation (more in Telecommunications SubCommittee meeting) - E-Gov Workshop
* Based on data out of the Public Libraries and the Internet report will look for grant money to build a workshop for to help state-level entities and Public Libraries - Strategic Plan
* Will be edited/wordsmithed out-of-committee with advisory committee volunteers and OITP staff
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- E-Rate Task Force reports/issues
- Copyright SubCommittee reports/issues
* Reports from annual
— L. Ray Patterson Award to Prue Adler
— Copyright Advisory Network exponential growth (500K+ hits in 2006)
* Section 108 Study Group from LC
— Position papers available - Telecommunications SubCommittee reports/issues
* Meeting on Sunday 1/21/07 – details will be in the summary post on that