We will be posting our full minutes on the LITA Wiki in a bit. Mandy Havert and I wanted to share a brief summary of the Education committee’s work at Midwinter. Important stuff first – we are pursuing speakers for educational programming opportunities (i.e Regional Institutes, ALA Programs, Preconferences, and online course/webinar/tutorial/etc. development). The following topics were identified as top priorities (from liaison reports with LITA IGs/Committees and a survey done 18 months ago). Open Source Mobile Tech RDA Extensible Catalog SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) Semantic Web If you are interest in working with us to develop an educational program in one of these areas, please contact the chairs: David Ward dh-ward@illinois.edu Mandy Havert mhavert@nd.edu You’ll notice some similarities with what is going on at LITA Forum and other LITA activities – one of our goals is to look for ways to take popular/well rated topics/speakers/programs and develop additional educational…