WELCOME
BACK ISSUES
Members present: Teresa Ashley
and Stephen Westman.
Members-elect present: David
Levinson and Peter Giordano.
The committee discussed their current project, a WWW site that will contain pointers and annotations to Web-based library instruction materials from all types of libraries. Discussion centered on several areas: definition of types of materials the site would contain, criteria for inclusion of a site, organization of the LIRT site, and the need for indexing for items on the site.
Two new members will begin work on a controlled vocabulary for the site. The chair/webmaster for this project will investigate software to index and organize the site as well as develop a form that visitors could use to suggest additional sites. Beyond this, all group members will review sites the chair has collected using Internet search engines. Communication between members of the group will continue via email.
Members present: Marilee Birchfield,
Lucia Dunn, Lorna Lueck, Katherine Todd
The Continuing Education Committee (CEC) compiled "LIRT's Top Twenty for 1995," which appeared in the June 1996 issue of LIRT News. Lorna will obtain ALA's authorization to submit the 1995 bibliography to ERIC. The committee reviewed and discussed guidelines and procedures for selecting the "Top Twenty" articles. Ideas for future projects were explored, including the possibility of utilizing LIRT's listserv and Web page for more frequent continuing education updates. Marilee Birchfield will serve as CEC Chair in 1996-97.
The 1996 Elections Committee completed its work at the New York Conference. The results of the LIRT election were announced before and during the Conference. In New York, the committee spent its time finalizing an elections manual for next year's committee, which includes a timetable, sample forms, and procedures.
Members present: Gale Burrow, Barbara
Conant, Charles
Dintrone, Marsha Forys, Tim Grimes, Kari Lucas, Linda
Sammataro, Diana Shonrock, Thelma Tate.
The committee presented its report on the goals evaluation forms, identifying goals that are not being met. Planning for the retreat, which will take place on February 14, 1997, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Gelman Library of George Washington University in Washington, D.C., took the rest of the meeting time.
Those invited to the retreat include the Steering Committee, former officers, the committee, and public and school librarians active in LIRT. Using the environmental scan done by the Long-Range Planning Committee last year as a starting point, the retreat will focus on key issues LIRT will be facing in the coming years. It is hoped that ideas will come out of The retreat that will lead to changes in the organization, a strategic plan, and/or changes in the mission, goals and objectives statements of LIRT.
Members present: John Riddle and John Spencer.
Distribution of assignments to new committee members was the main topic of discussion. The primary goal of committee members is to find contributors who can write brief articles for the newsletter on topics related to instruction in academic, public, special or school libraries. The editor will be contacting new committee members to discuss possible newsletter prospects.
The committee met on Saturday, July 6, during the All Committee meeting. The committee spent time updating and making corrections to the LIRT handbook. Diana Shonrock and Billie Peterson were responsible for the corrections. Carol Derner will be the new chair for the committee. Diana Shonrock resigned from the committee because she was elected secretary of LIRT.
Members present: Linda J. Goff,
Marie Hayden, Barbara Pilvin, Linda Chopra.
LIRT Booth: Laura Bottoms and Andy
Corrigan.
Members-elect present: Pixey Mosley and
Thomas Biggs.
Visitors: Marilyn Whitmore and Donna
Kanapes.
Thirty-seven people preregistered for BITES with LIRT in New York City. Barbara Pilvin will select restaurants in Washington D.C. and Linda Goff will select for San Francisco.
The LIRT booth was back in the exhibit hall in the aisle for professional groups. Linda will contact ALA after the conference to track down the LIRT banner. New materials on the Internet and electronic resources are needed for the booth display binders, and a request for contributions will go in the newsletter. A second table in the booth is needed to display LIRT's printed materials.
The membership brochure was updated and 500 were printed by Sylvia Nichols. The next revision will include a space for email addresses. Sylvia also produced a one-page flyer about LIRT with a committee volunteer form on the back. The Steering Committee asked that red be used for the apple logo.
To increase LIRT membership, the committee discussed using BI-L to increase visibility. Another goal is to develop LIRT awareness in non-academic organizations, and to emphasize LIRT as a way to network and meet other librarians. The committee will also explore having a "LIRT presence" at state and/or regional conferences. Member A-LIRT - Pixey Mosley volunteered to do the next four member profiles.
Members present: Marta Davis, Harvey
Gover, Rob Morrison, Signe Swanson.
With input from Kari Lucas, the Incoming Chair met with new and current members to discuss a strategy for completion of the committee's publication project. The committee is compiling a bibliography of journals from other fields which have published articles on/or relating to librarianship. Ideas on journal titles to include will be welcomed by the committee.
Members present: Sherry DeDecker,
Lorna Peterson
Members-elect present: Nerea Llamas,
Hilary Craiglow, Gina Persichini
Visitors: Barbara Ford-Foster, Kristen
Tepper, Kathy Kie
The committee evaluated Internet sites and examples of Internet instruction collected so far and decided to make this a two-part project:
The group divided tasks by type of library: public, academic, school and special. Members will also explore political issues involved in institutions gaining connectivity to the Internet and how use has changed the mission of libraries. The committee will work closely with the Computer Applications Committee by developing a list of guidelines for instructional Web sites and using these to evaluate sites gathered by both committees and linked on a LIRT Web page. Results of research done will be submitted to the newsletter in a series of articles.
Members present: Emily Bergman,
Tobeylynn Birch, Barbara Conant, Tim Grimes.
The proposal for a standing committee was discussed, changes were made, and the submission to Executive Board was planned. The treasurer will modify year one of the financial plan; the subcommittee will refine years two through four and create year five.
The inclusion of a special projects line in the budget is to address special needs of LIRT committees. The five-year plan includes a loss of 25% of membership with the dues increase. Later years include an increase in membership, dependent upon the work of the Membership Committee. Discussion centered on raising non-dues revenue, developing healthy reserve funds, and allocating the special project line funds. The work of the task force is complete, and the task force expects to be disbanded.
The task force discussed two ideas at the conference:
In addition to ideas generated by the task force, ideas for the content of the LIRT Web pages were also solicited from LIRT committees. The content will both promote LIRT and provide mechanisms which will help LIRT committees do their work. A prototype for the LIRT Web will be available by mid-November, with a "final" version publicly available before Midwinter.