Author: Pat Ensor

Actually, these are generally pretty tame affairs. I just thought I’d jazz it up a little. Sadly, I won’t be attending LITA Board II: Electric Boogaloo. Anybody can come to these, you know. And they put the agenda up in advance. To some extent, I would have just come out of habit — walk without thinking on the Saturday morning of an ALA conference, and here I am — six years’ habit dies hard. But I also knew they would be having a Board discussion, this time on LITA’s education function. And I knew they would have refreshments. What’s not to like? By the way, the topic for discussion at Annual Conference Board I (June 24) will be membership. So you can’t complain now that you didn’t have enough advance notice. One of the items on the agenda was LITA’s views on the proposed RFID Guidelines. The Executive Committee are…

I’m baaaccckkk!!! I haven’t been to any conferences in about a year and a half, and that was sufficient to actually make me look forward to attending an ALA Midwinter. I even managed to make it to the 8am Committee/IG Chairs Meeting by 8:05. Hey, I had to get my Diet Coke, okay? And I paid $3.50 for it in the Convention Center, so it deserved my due attention. This meeting is, obviously, aimed at committee/interest group chairs, but anybody can come really — anybody who can make it to an 8am meeting, anyway — and it’s a good way to get updated on LITA news at the beginning of the conference. Various tidbits: Someone asked about the online communities pilot that ALA did about 6 months ago — what was the upshot of that? The online community option is available now; just contact Mary Taylor about getting one set…