From time to time on Council list, I have vented, fruitlessly, about the Current Reference File. But why stop there? Let me bore you folks, as well! Seriously, it’s an important issue, a very pivotal issue in terms of moving ALA to new technologies, and one the ALA young’uns should think and talk about. Bookmark […]
Son of a gun! I booted up my laptop in the Council chambers, only to find an open wireless network I could attach to. I’m a fur piece from the hotel, and it appears to be a different network, anyway. After an amazingly tough year, ALA is in the black. Kudos to ALA staff, who […]
The Cuba resolution I submitted to ALA Council will be on the agenda Wednesday morning, January 14 (Council III). It comes up then because that’s when IRC presents its report, and it is germane to the IRC’s report. It’s interesting how the process can affect outcomes. A report supposedly six months in the making isn’t […]
Welcome back, and here’s a treat! ALA is implementing a major fix for its Web site that will drastically reduce the length of its URLs. Whew! This is the most-requested “fix” requested for the bungled upgrade famously rolled out last April during National Library Week. More good things are on the way. Can’t tell you […]
Carla Hayden, current ALA president, is one of ten Ms. Magazine Women of the Year for 2003. ALA’s press release notes, “Hayden drew nationwide attention by voicing the ALA’s opposition to sections of the USA PATRIOT Act,” and played a key role in forcing Ashcroft into declassifying the Justice Department report on Section 215. ALA […]
Ouch! Based on preliminary phone calls, it appears both San Diego and Orlando conference centers charge conference attendees $4.95 an hour or $24.95 a day for wireless access. I have a second call in to San Diego to reverify these costs, which are at least a couple weeks old. Bookmark to:
Nat Hentoff brought ALA sharply to task on this issue, and I can’t say as I blame him, even though I don’t know who told him that the Washington Times is a credible publication. Bookmark to:
As a Councilor, I have an obligation to be up front about my own position on the issue I’m about to discuss. In a nutshell, this stinks. The ALA Council list has had a flurry of posting activity related to the question of internal candidate endorsements, starting with a resolution posted by a current candidate […]
… I wish. Liz Lawley commented at Internet Librarian that wireless access for attendees is now matter of course for most of the conferences she attends (as a professor at RIT who has “crossed over” from librarianship). Not so for ALA. We don’t request it as a conference service, we don’t push it as a […]