Topic discussed:
- Schedule corrections for Imagineering and Public Libraries & Technology Interest Groups
- Program planing submission process. We need to streamline the process, remove the manual process and cange it with a web-based form if possible, and have it ready by Annual 2009 for 2010 program submission. At this point, it might be difficult to achieve it in six months if we rely on ALA IT to build the infrastructure for us. A working group would be established to assess and provide recommendations
- Program proposal work flow. The PPC committee would like to see if individuals could submit a program proposal without going through formal Interest Group channel. Another working group would be created to research and provide recommendations.
- LITA Manual section 10 on Programs at ALA Annual Conference and how to make the manual more user friendly. A group of PPC members would look into this.
- Looking at possibility of LITA PPC to sponsor a program, especially to help new members and/or incoming IG chair to organize a program.
We’re getting a new program proposal from the International Relations Committee. They’re planning to bring topics on technology and developing world:
- OLPC (One Laptop per Child) project.
- OACIS (online Access to Consolidated Information on Serials),a project to digitize and make available selected scholarly humanistic Iraqi journals. Also a similar project, AMEEL (A Middle Eastern Electronic Library), to digitize about 100,000 pages of scholarly journal content from ten Middle Eastern countries, as well as providing technological training and infrastructure between those institutions.
- United Nation efforts on bringing new technologies to the developing world.
Tentative schedule is Saturday, 8-10am.