FROM THE PRESIDENT
Vicki Toy-Smith
It is an honor and pleasure to begin my term as OLAC President.
I am excited to announce that our 2008 Conference will be a joint conference with MOUG. The OLAC/MOUG Conference will be held in Cleveland, Ohio, from September 26-28, 2008 at the Cleveland Renaissance Hotel. Co-Chairs, Sevim McCutcheon (Kent State University) and Kevin Furniss (Denison University) and the Planning Committee are hard at work planning an exciting program. The Conference program will include the basic training in non-print cataloging topics, as well as Dublin Core and other emerging metadata standards, along with the latest information on RDA. Watch the OLAC Website, OLAC Newsletter, and OLAC List for updates on the program.
The OLAC Executive Board members hope to serve you well in the next year. (The list of this year's Board, with their contact information, is given on the next page.) And on behalf of the Executive Board, I would like to take this opportunity to announce that the new OLAC MARBI Liaison has been selected. Please join us in welcoming our incoming Liaison, Cathy Gerhart (University of Washington). Congratulations to Cathy! Our thanks also go to the excellent candidates who applied for the position.
In addition, we would like to express our appreciation to John Attig for his many years of dedicated service as MARBI Liaison, not to mention the extended period he also served as CC:DA Liaison. We wish him success in with his new appointment as ALA Representative to the Joint Steering Committee. We also thank Kelley McGrath for her assistance in acting as interim MARBI Liaison, even while serving as CAPC Chair.
RDA, new metadata standards, and other types of evolving library/information science issues in the AV cataloging community are providing OLAC with many unique and stimulating challenges and opportunities. In the upcoming year, our members will be seeing calls for candidates for OLAC offices and OLAC committees. I am hopeful that OLAC members, who have ideas about expanding OLAC's membership and proposing new initiatives, will contact me <vicki@unr.edu> or any of our Executive Board members.
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