FROM THE EDITOR
Jain Fletcher
Steven Miller, our President, writes in his column about the "…continuing work and new developments in our organization", hoping to induce OLAC members to become more involved. If Steven's brief overview about these projects has piqued your interest and you would like to learn more about any of them, you may read more in the minutes taken at the CAPC, Board and OLAC Membership meetings at ALA Midwinter, held in Seattle. More information about ALA Midwinter and some of the "meetings of interest to OLAC" can be found in the Conference Reports. Those reports also contain information about the work and developments of several other professional groups. Information and guidance that can inform any OLAC cataloger's daily work life may be found in the "News from OCLC", "OLAC Cataloger's Judgment" and some of "News and Announcements". Returning full circle to Steven's point, you may read about four people who are trying to become more involved in OLAC in "Meet the Candidates".
The above narrative list of this issue's contents represents contributions made by columnists and contributors who have become familiar to OLAC Newsletter readers over time. Also included in this issue are three new contributors, one of whom is commencing her stint as a regular columnist within these pages. Amy Weiss has taken over the "Book Reviews" column and has made a solid debut. The book review found in that column was submitted by Richard Leigh, who has made quite a compelling case for his book. Another new contributor is Jeannette Ho, who was inspired by the fact that three OLAC members spoke at the Media Resources Discussion Group meeting at ALA Midwinter and has written an informative special report on their presentations.
If you read my column, even irregularly, you may have noticed that I often compliment our contributors and try to find new ways of bringing attention to their names. This time I had the opportunity to accomplish this goal in a new way. Upon putting this issue's edited files into the MS Publisher Newsletter template, I found that I was faced with one leftover page and no content available for it. Given the nature of our "booklet"-style publication, the total page count must be in multiples of four, so there was no way simply to delete the blank page. It occurred to me to make an index of the contributors to this issue, which I have now done. To see the results, see page 54 of the print version.
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