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Survey from the Task Force on Electronic Membership Participation (TFOEMP)

The ALA Task Force on Electronic Membership Participation (TFOEMP) has been charged with evaluating ALA policy as it relates to members’ ability to engage with and interact with the work of the association through committees and other working groups. A survey of members’ practice and attitudes toward serving on Association committees, task forces, and interests groups at a distance is being undertaken. Through this survey, the TFOEMP hopes to gauge member familiarity, interest, and comfort with various means of participating both synchronously and asynchronously. Please visit this link to respond to the survey. You will be asked to provide your ALA Membership ID. The survey will take 10 minutes and offers both structured and open responses. Member ID numbers will be collected in order to correlate responses in the aggregate to membership participation in divisions, round tables, and committees, as well as by geographic regions and type of library or…

2008

Official Call for LITA Bloggers at ALA Annual

The ALA Annual Conference is just a few short weeks away, and we are again looking for volunteers to post brief summaries of LITA-sponsored sessions on the LITA Blog (http://litablog.org).  While you’re visiting Anaheim to learn, meet up with old friends, and engage in discussion about the newest new things in library technology, why not take this opportunity to share this experience with others? A current Blog Schedule can be found at http://litablog.org/blog-schedule-ala-annual-2008.  We would like to cover as many of the sessions as possible, so please feel free to pick one (or ten) and join the LITA Blogging Community. If you are interested, just contact me at tiffany dot lmb dot smith at gmail dot com with your name, e-mail and the sessions you would like to cover.  I’ll be happy to answer any questions you might have. Thanks very much in advance!

2008

gCalendar of LITA events at Annual 2008

A while back, BIGWIG started up Your BIGWIG as a place to collaboratively do stuff.  One of the resources on Your BIGWIG is an embedded gCal. One day, in a spirit of “too much stuff to do, so I’ll do something completely unrelated instead” I populated this calendar with all the LITA events I could find for ALA Annual in Anaheim.  If you’re frustrated, as many are, with the ALA Event Planner, feel free to save events from this calendar into your own (trust me, this is *much* easier than the Event Planner for LITA events) Por su servico…

BIGWIG

Your BIGWIG

The LITA Blogs, Interactive Groupware and Wikis Interest Group (otherwise known by the sobriquet BIGWIG) is pleased to announce a new online presence for the group: www.yourbigwig.com What is YourBIGWIG? Straight from the site itself: BIGWIG has created this website in order to facilitate communication between BIGWIG members, potential members and interested parties. We hope to use this site to enable BIGWIG to be more efficient and effective in the work we do, allow for virtual participation, and solicit feedback and commentary on our activities. So: head on over and check us out. Sign up for an account, and make yourself part of the process of making LITA a more efficient, effective, and forward-thinking division of ALA.

Podcast

2008 LITA Elections: Michelle Frisque

For the last of the LITA Election podcasts, we have one of the two candidates for LITA Vice President/President-Elect. Last up in this year’s election podcasts, but certainly not least, is Michelle Frisque. We hope that you enjoy the podcast, that it helps you to decide who you would like to see among LITA’s leadership in the upcoming year, and that you let us know both things. Don’t forget: Polls open March 17th, and you’ll be getting information in your email if you are a LITA member and eligible to vote. If you like these podcasts, and want to see us do more of them, please comment and let us know! As always, thanks to the 奇妙 David Lee King for his help with these podcasts.

Podcast

2008 LITA Elections: David Bretthauer

And finally we have the two candidates for LITA Vice President/President-Elect. First up (again, alphabetically) is David Bretthauer. We hope that you enjoy the podcast, that it helps you to decide who you would like to see among LITA’s leadership in the upcoming year, and that you let us know both things. Don’t forget: Polls open March 17th, and you’ll be getting information in your email if you are a LITA member and eligible to vote. If you like these podcasts, and want to see us do more of them, please comment and let us know! As always, thanks to the 素晴らしい David Lee King for his help with these podcasts.

Podcast

2008 LITA Elections: Lorre Smith

First up in our 2008 LITA Elections podcast are the candidates for Director-at-Large, and next among the candidates is Lorre Smith. We hope that you enjoy the podcast, that it helps you to decide who you would like to see among LITA’s leadership in the upcoming year, and that you let us know both things. Don’t forget: Polls open March 17th, and you’ll be getting information in your email if you are a LITA member and eligible to vote. If you like these podcasts, and want to see us do more of them, please comment and let us know! As always, thanks to the prachtig David Lee King for his help with these podcasts.

Podcast

2008 LITA Elections: Billy Kwan

First up in our 2008 LITA Elections podcast are the candidates for Director-at-Large, and next among the candidates is Billy Kwan. We hope that you enjoy the podcast, that it helps you to decide who you would like to see among LITA’s leadership in the upcoming year, and that you let us know both things. Don’t forget: Polls open March 17th, and you’ll be getting information in your email if you are a LITA member and eligible to vote. If you like these podcasts, and want to see us do more of them, please comment and let us know! As always, thanks to the wunderbar David Lee King for his help with these podcasts.

Podcast

2008 LITA Elections: Colleen Cuddy

First up in our 2008 LITA Elections podcast are the candidates for Director-at-Large, and next among the candidates is Colleen Cuddy. We hope that you enjoy the podcast, that it helps you to decide who you would like to see among LITA’s leadership in the upcoming year, and that you let us know both things. Don’t forget: Polls open March 17th, and you’ll be getting information in your email if you are a LITA member and eligible to vote. If you like these podcasts, and want to see us do more of them, please comment and let us know! As always, thanks to the meraviglioso David Lee King for his help with these podcasts.