I received my ALA ballot–at last–and started voting. I like that I can stop and return to my ballot, and with the length of the Council ballot, frequent breaks are necessary. If you haven’t sent in your ballot yet, please consider my choices. This is a short list, and it could be much longer if […]
If you’re like me, you are still waiting for the magic email that will allow you to vote in the 2005 ALA elections. (And waiting. And waiting. Good ol’ ALA. It worries me that the first day to report not receiving a ballot is April 1. “Hah hah, April Fool, you don’t get to vote!”) […]
This is post-game analysis of what I now call (albeit very tongue in cheek) Gormangate. I expect I won’t have anything else to write on this issue for a while, if again, unless we hear a retraction or explanation from Gorman. First, ALA’s own governing body has largely ignored this issue. This is not surprising, […]
I’ve retired from blogging on the PLA blog, which was a fun experience until it began crashing Monday due to a number of problems related to huge images and increased traffic. It was a fun experiment–a little rough around the edges, but overall I think it sets the tone for real-time blogging future conferences. I […]
Wow! Through one venue or another, including 30 comments on this blog, I have pilesnpilesnpiles of great ideas for Sunday’s Top Tech Trends Talk (say that four times fast) at ALA Midwinter. I’m getting ready to board my flight to Boston (gotta love my T-Mobile connection) and will use the in-flight experience to process your […]
ALA has two radically different sides: the hoop-skirted ALA of obtusely backward policies designed to keep us doing things The Way We’ve Always Done Them, and the oh-so-in-the-know Beltway-savvy Office of Information Technology Policy, which wisely ignores ALA and does its own thing. Now OITP is supporting a blogging conference, “Blogging, Journalism & Credibility,” to […]
Skip Auld, ALA Councilor and a beloved colleague, has been circulating this message to various discussion lists: > Two years ago, many of you marked my name on the ALA Council > ballot with the expectation that I would represent your views, values, > and priorities. Last week I decided that, because of my higher […]
Kudos, ALA! You just justified twelve years of dues and bad hotel rooms for conferences. The entire press release follows. American Library Association denounces proposed bill to ban state funds for gay and lesbian books http://www.ala.org/ala/pr2004/december2004/Allenstatement.htm December 2, 2004 (CHICAGO) The following is a statement from American Library Association (ALA) President Carol Brey-Casiano: “It is […]
Michael Stephens said he wanted to see blogs on ALA’s site. On Jessamyn’s blog, she responds that ALA still needs to fix its search engine and content management system. They’re both right: ALA needs to move forward, and it needs to fix what ain’t working. If I bundled the comments together, I’d say that ALA […]
I am so honored to note that I’ve been appointed to the LITA Top Technology Trends committee. “At each ALA MidWinter Conference, a group of LITA leaders who are acknowledged for their reputations and expertise in the library and information technology fields meets to hammer out what they believe to be top technology trends librarians […]