FROM THE EDITOR
Jain Fletcher
As usual at this time of year, this issue comes packed with conference reports. This includes the set of three OLAC meeting minutes from ALA Midwinter, as well as the reports from liaisons to OLAC, providing fuller details than they had time to cover in their reports at the actual meetings. There are also a few new names to mention in relation to these reports. For one, Sueyoung Park-Primiano makes her debut as the new liaison to AMIA, making a seamless transition from the excellent job done by Jane Johnson. In addition, as you probably know by now, Sophie Bogdanski is the new liaison to CC:DA. However, she was unable to attend this past ALA, so John Attig kindly agreed to fill in for her. Also, for this issue, Jan Mayo had agreed to perform the duties of the Conference Reports Editor on a "test" basis this time around. When she was done, we were both so pleased with the results that she agreed to continue to serve as the Conference Reports Editor. So thanks, and welcome, Jan!
I have added a new feature this time, which also relates to the ALA Conference and to one of OLAC's liaisons. It is the report from the Enhance Sharing Session, which Jay Weitz leads at ALA. (See my note, which I have inserted under its heading, giving a brief rationale for adding this report.) I have adjusted the contents format somewhat to make this change fit more logically within the structure. Please feel free to let me know what you think, either about the structure or about the value of the added feature.
In addition to her regular column, Nancy Olson has graced this issue with an article giving guidance on streaming video cataloging. As she explains, this came out of documentation she and Jay Weitz prepared for his workshop at the MOUG meeting last year and has been tweaked by them several times since then, so that the version we get here is highly developed.
The other Newsletter columns, News & Announcements and Book Reviews, contain up-to-the-minute information about upcoming events, new offerings and recently published books. OLAC's ability to stay abreast of this kind of information depends in part on the excellence of these columns and we are never disappointed. Remember that you can contact the editors, Barbara Vaughan and Vicki Toy-Smith, if you feel you have something to contribute to these columns.
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