FROM THE PRESIDENT
Vicki Toy-Smith
The ALA Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia is coming soon! I look forward to seeing many of you at the OLAC Membership Meeting there. I am pleased to announce a time change for our member's meeting. The OLAC Executive Board conducted a poll of OLAC membership regarding possible meeting times; survey results indicate that a 4-6 p.m. slot would best suit the majority. So, the OLAC Membership Meeting will take place at that time on Saturday, January 12, 2008.
For the subsequent ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, California, there will be a slight difference in the OLAC Membership Meeting time; it will be an abbreviated general session from 4-5 p.m., with a Q&A panel to follow at a location near the Membership Meeting location. Another poll will be taken in the Fall of 2008 regarding the OLAC Membership Meeting time to see if members are happy with the changes.
My thanks go to Bobby Bothmann, Sue Neumeister, and all of the OLAC Executive Board members for the assistance with the OLAC Bylaws survey. The amendments, which encompassed three revisions, were voted on and passed by our membership. The revisions included making the Outreach/Advocacy Coordinator a full member of the Executive Board, clarifying the term limits for the appointed offices, and defining the literal text of the OLAC Bylaws to define the terminology specific to postal mail (or "snail mail") balloting. The OLAC Bylaws now have been updated to reflect these changes.
As a result of this vote, the Board has welcomed Debbie Benrubi, who has been serving OLAC well in the Outreach/Advocacy Coordinator position since 2005. As always, everyone should feel free to contact Debbie <benrubi@usfca.edu> with their ideas about outreach or advocacy.
I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Jain Fletcher, OLAC Newsletter Editor-in-Chief, for the excellent job she has done over the past six years managing our Newsletter issues. In addition, I wanted to extend an official welcome to Amy Weiss, who will become Editor-in-Chief in January 2008.
Last but not least: my thanks go to Kelley McGrath, Steve Miller, Kay Johnson, and David Reynolds for their work on the updated version of OLAC's Introduction to Cataloging Electronic Integrating Resources: An Online Training Presentation <http://www.olacinc.org/capc/training.html>. The online training presentation is a valuable early step in assisting catalogers who are new to working on integrating resources.
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