The LITA Board met on Friday, August 15th for their first board meeting after ALA Annual in Las Vegas and under the new leadership of LITA President Rachel Vacek. Three major topics on the agenda were 1) the 2015 Budget; 2) the creation and disbanding of some LITA committees; and 3) an overview of the upcoming LITA Kitchen Table Conversations. The revised 2015 LITA budget and accompanying summary were well received thanks to the great work of our new Financial Advisory Committee. Special thanks goes to Andrew Pace, Susan Sharpless Smith, Mary Taylor, and especially FAC Chair Zoe Stewart-Marshall for all their hard work. The vote to accept the budget passed. Jason Griffey, the Bylaws and Organization Committee Chair and who serves as an Ex Officio member of the Board as our Parliamentarian, provided the Board with updates from the Bylaws Committee. The Board voted to disband both the Technology…
Author: Rachel Vacek
LITA Town Meeting, January 27, 2014
The LITA Town Meeting will take place on Monday January 27, 2014, from 8:30-10:00 am, EST. If you are able to attend in person, great! I’ll be happy to see you there! If not, I encourage you to participate remotely. Here are all the links you’ll need, no matter how or when you want to participate. Information on what we’re doing at the Town Meeting: http://litablog.org/2014/01/how-has-lita-made-your-life-awesome-tell-us-at-hashtag-becauselita/ The Tagboard where we are aggregating items with the hastag #becauseLITA: https://tagboard.com/becauselita The Google Doc containing the six different activites used during the Town Meeting: http://goo.gl/Jhnj50 The Google Doc where we are sharing our work: http://goo.gl/j5jgo9 Additional online resources for remote users: Create a comic with Bitstrips: http://bitstrips.com/create/comic/ Brainstorm: https://bubbl.us/ Make a chart: https://developers.google.com/chart/ Create a storyboard: http://studios.amazon.com/storyteller I want to emphasize that this activity is very different than the types of activities that we’ve previously done at Town Meetings. Here, we’re trying to…
How has LITA made your life awesome? Tell us at #becauseLITA
Are you a member of LITA? Has LITA helped you in any way? Perhaps you’ve taken an online workshop, attended a preconference, read a useful article in LITA’s journal, participated in a conference, expanded your professional network, or even just had fun socializing and interacting with colleagues interested in libraries and technology. If LITA has impacted your job or your career, we want to hear about it! How has LITA made your life awesome? Tweet, blog, use instagram, use facebook, make a video, record a sound byte, or use your favorite flavor of social media to share LITA’s impact on you and be sure to include the hashtag #becauseLITA. We are aggregating everything with that hashtag on our Tagboard. At this upcoming Midwinter Conference, an amazing team of LITA folk have been helping me, Rachel Vacek, your LITA Vice-President, plan the LITA Town Meeting on Monday, January 27th from 8:30-10:00…