Update: a serious omission… Note that American Libraries was on this story Friday. Thank you, AL! The irrepressible education advocate Andy Carvin has a great summary of DOPA, which is federalese for “Scared of MySpace.” Like CIPA, the Deleting Online Predators Act is FUD-riddled, flag-waving legislation, this time built on the dubious premise that when […]
From ALA HQ: Roy elected–dues increase passes–turnout excellent–bylaws change passes–all good news. William Crowe ran an honorable campaign and is a good guy, but Roy will make a terrific ALA president. Too busy to do more than paste and run! — kgs ———–from ALA Council list—————– Following are the results of the 2006 ALA Bylaws […]
Keith Fiels just reported that Conference Services denied having a policy of not posting room numbers–but another councilor had already corroborated the practice, so I’m not buying that response. But the big take-away is that it looks as if CS won’t put its own policy into practice this time. Good deal! Now if only the […]
“We were asked, for the first time this conference to keep meeting locations confidential, at the request of ALA Conference Services…” According to a Councilor posting to the Council list, the American Library Association is employing a new tool in the War on Terrorism: for the ALA conference in New Orleans–you know, the sub-sea-level city […]
As Michael Stephens, Jenny Levine, and Michael Golrick have already noted, Mary Ghikas has started blogging! She’s the second-in-command at ALA, after Keith Fiels. The title of her blog includes my favorite color, green, and my favorite TV character–Captain Kangaroo. (Though I was also partial to Mr. Greenjeans.) I’d like to expound on the significance […]
Spied on Michael Golrick’s blog: “I do see that blogging represents a use of library technology sufficient to warrant a LITA Interest Group, if anyone wanted to start one.” Thought I’d point out that LITA does have a blogging IG: BIGWIG. (Full disclosure: I co-chair it. Second disclosure: we’re hosting a fab program at Annual. […]
Mark Lindner asks why ALA should have a Bloggers’ Roundtable, an idea that Michael Golrick posed. In response to another blogger’s question, yes, if the roundtable were large enough, it would have a full vote on Council, and its own Councilor; and if it were not, it would have partial representation through what I call […]
Another good election year, comparatively. From the Council list: ——————————————- As of 4/11/06 at 3:45pm Central: 11,136 voted, including 9,515 electronic, 1,621 paper This compares to 4/11/05: 7,549 voted, including 6,027 electronic, 1,522 paper —— Again, compare: Total as of 4/8/04: 8,309 (total votes cast in election: 12,562) Total votes in 2003 election (pre-electronic): 9,844 […]
Turnout for the ALA election to date, while not spectacular, has exceeded last year’s slump and sets a record for ballots cast to date, plus, like 2004, exceeds total returns for the last all-paper election. As of 4/6/06, 10,309 have voted, including 8,893 electronic and 1,416 paper. Compare with earlier years: Total as of 4/6/05: […]
Hard to post anything today without a caveat, This Is Not A Joke, but the ALA election returns are fairly healthy this year, per Mary Ghikas’ post to the ALA Council list and my own tracking from 2004. The total votes in the 2003 election–the last all-paper balloting–were 9,844, and we’ve already exceeded the 2004 […]