6-20-05: Yet more updates to my schedule for the upcoming ALA annual conference. (The ALA calendar itself? Pah-tooey! What a useless pile of horse excrement.) Plus this year I am one of several folks honchoing the first LITA blog. I need an RFID chip! Years ago a friend asked if I weren’t worried that by […]
Too busy at work to do anything except say, It’s Valid! It’s Well-Formed! And I Love It! American Libraries now has a feed for its weekly news. Oh joy, oh precedence! You have to click twice from this page to get to AL feed (which reminds me of the punchline to my favorite joke from […]
Feel free to “meme” this post far and wide… The motley gang involved in building the LITA blog and getting it going by ALA Annual in Chicago is seeing it take shape… we have four designer/page coders (all ladies, interestingly), two installers, any number of kibitzers (and kibitzing is invaluable when you’re crafting policy), blogging […]
ALA Council is having a debate online about U.S.News & World Report’s outdated library school rankings, which are based on a survey circulated to library schools in 1998 (wasn’t Netscape still king?). The academics say they “scorn” these rankings. (I thought scorn was an emotion reserved for the French.) The public library types, me included, […]
Update 5/5/05 11:00 a.m. PT: the survey now requires an ALA login. Btw, it wasn’t me on a cached machine or anything–this came up on the GLBTRT discussion list yesterday, and other folks reported the same hole. I guess ALA monitors the lists and blogs, ay? 😉 ALA is conducting a “demographic” survey that supposedly […]
Hot diggity dog! Bloggers, surfers, and compulse email-checkers, rejoice! ALA Executive Director Keith Fiels just advised Council that at ALA Annual this June in Chicago, “Wireless connectivity will be … available for the first time to attendees at a highly discounted rate.” This is fab news. I also asked Keith how wireless would be distributed […]
In yet another dispatch from the What Were You Thinking Department, ALA’s website has an egregious fiction splashed on its front page insinuating that ALA has awarded the First Lady with a “citation.” “ALA” didn’t award Bush anything. The first anyone on Council heard of ALA’s citation was through the announcement on the website. It […]
Finally, some results–and what do we see? Participation is down. (Or something else is going on… I don’t even want to think about that.) The polls opened on almost the same day both years, btw. Come on folks, jump in and cast those ballots! While you’re at it, vote for Christine Hage for ALA president. […]
Last year, the first year of e-voting, ALA gave us weekly updates on electoral participation, which I posted on this blog. This year, after several requests for information, we had a post on Council list dated March 24 in which we were assured we’d be updated “next week.” Twice since then I’ve politely requested this […]
Are any FRL readers still waiting for their ALA e-ballots? (I’m not including people who requested PAPER ballots.) Bookmark to: