FROM THE PRESIDENT
Vicki Toy-Smith
I am delighted to announce that OLAC has become an ALA affiliate! OLAC now joins the ranks of several distinguished organizations, such as Association of Research Libraries, who have reached this important status. The following list of existing affiliates reflects what a prestigious group of organizations we have joined:
http://www.ala.org/ala/ourassociation/othergroups/affiliates/affiliateslisting.htm
I want to assure our membership that this new relationship is one that will bring added value to our entire membership. OLAC members will now be entitled to several benefits that were not available to us prior to this time. Benefits include: co-sponsorship privileges with ALA, the right to reserve meeting room space at the ALA conferences at the present ALA rate, and have our meetings included in the final programs for the conferences. A full list of benefits from becoming an ALA Affiliate organization can be found at:
http://www.ala.org/ala/ourassociation/othergroups/affiliates/benefits1.htm
Please keep in mind that OLAC as a corporate body will pay annual dues to ALA for affiliate status; however we are not an ALA organization and our members are not ALA members unless they choose to join ALA separately. Our new status as an affiliate will not affect anyone’s individual membership in OLAC and OLAC members will not need to be ALA members.
In other news, OLAC/MOUG Conference organizers, co-chairs Sevim McCutcheon and Kevin Furniss, have organized an excellent and exciting program for this year’s conference. I look forward to having many of you attend the conference this year! The OLAC/MOUG Conference will be held at the Cleveland Renaissance Hotel from September 26-28. The pre-conference session on map cataloging will be given by Paige Andrew on September 25. Lynn Howarth will be the plenary session speaker and Janet Swan Hill will give the wrap-up session. There will be workshops/sessions on: videos (Jay Weitz), form/genre (Janis Young), electronic resources (Amy Weiss), RDA (Glenn Patton, Heidi Hoerman), scores (Margaret Kaus, Ralph Papakhian), sound recordings (Robert Freeborn), WorldCAT local (Cathy Gerhart), Non-MARC metadata for digital resources (Jenn Riley), and integrating resources (Joe Hinger).
I would also like to congratulate several members of OLAC who have been selected to serve on CAPC. Walter Walker and Susan Wynne will become interns; Marcia Barrett will become a CAPC member at the CAPC meeting during the ALA Annual Conference. In addition, congratulations to Jay Weitz, who will begin his duties as OLAC OCLC liaison and an ex-officio member of CAPC at the June meeting.
I look forward to continued collaboration and productive dialogue; this is especially important in light of future developments regarding RDA and its implications for technical services units.
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