Members Present:
Barbara Cressman, Valerie Jackson Feinman, Peter Giordano, David Levinson and Stephen Westman.
The "Webliography" of Internet resources was the main topic of the meeting. Currently about 380 links have been submitted by committee members and linked to the project's home page at http://www.utsa.edu/cac. [Editor's note: the site will be available to non-committee members by the Annual Conference.] To organize the pages, it was proposed that a CGI-updated database be used to create and search the Web pages. The criteria for describing a site will be placed on the project home page for evaluation. Non-academic librarians will be contacted for their input. The goal for the committee is to have the Web project available on the LIRT Web site by Annual.
Members Present:
Phillip Jones, Marcia King-Blandford, Cynthia Krolikowski, Carolyn McIntosh, Peg Oettinger and Kristin Strohmeyer.
The Program Committee met twice at Midwinter, preparing for the ALA Annual Meeting in San Francisco. The LIRT Executive and Steering Committees have approved the program, "Focus on the Student: Emphasizing Learning Styles," which will be held on Sunday, June 29 at 9:30 a.m. Panelists invited to speak are Gail Junion-Metz, president, Information Age Consultants, University Heights, Ohio; Lynn Sutton, Director, Undergraduate Library, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan; and Debra Jones, Internet Librarian, Cabrillo College, Aptos, California.
Members present:
Marilee Birchfield, Lucia Dunn, Elizabeth Lorenzen, Janet Sheets, and Kate Todd.
The Continuing Education Committee reviewed and selected the outstanding instruction articles for the "1996 Top 20 Bibliography" which will appear in the June issue of LIRT News.
The regular activities of the committee, which are to write a report on the Planning and Goal Progress Evaluation Forms and to update LIRT's environmental scan, were postponed until the results of the retreat are clearer. The committee will work on these and any other assignments from the Executive Board related to the retreat in the coming months and at Annual. The committee spent the rest of the meeting analyzing the retreat and coming up with a summary of actions to recommend to the Executive Board.
Members present:
Marilyn Barr, Carol Derner, Kari Lucas and Mary Popp.
The committee reviewed suggested changes to the Organization Manual with Kari. All committee chairs are asked to send suggested changes in Standing Committee descriptions (Section V of Bylaws) and Committee Charges (AO1.05) as well as general changes to Carol Derner by April l.
Members Present:
Allisa Beck, Laura Bottoms, Andy Corrigan, Linda J. Goff, Pixey Mosley, Barbara Pilvin, Donna Kanapes and Marilyn Whitmore.
Bites with LIRT - 29 people preregistered for the 3 lunches; the committee noted that most individuals register through BI-L; actual attendance was 34.
LIRT Booth at ALA - Andy Corrigan will coordinate the booth in San Francisco. Volunteers are needed to staff the booth, and ads will be put in the newsletter and on BI-L. Marie Hayden will coordinate booth volunteers. The committee would like to see more table space for display and would like to update the print materials. Concern was expressed about limited funds. The committee will buy two copies of the LIRT publication, Evaluating Library Instruction, for display in the booth. Marilyn Whitmore will donate 3 copies of her instruction book for the prize drawing to add to the 3 remaining canvas LIRT bags.
Print Material - A concerted effort will be made to collect materials on teaching the Web and other electronic-based sources for display in the booth. The binders of older materials will be retired to Archives. Donna Kanapes will design an ad for the next newsletter to solicit print material.
Banner - Laura Bottoms will obtain a new banner to replace the one lost by UPS last year, after determining the original specifications. If specs can't be found, a new design may be created.
Membership - This year's project is to revise the membership brochure and place it on the LIRT web page. Linda Goff attended the ALA Membership Task Force meeting and found that LIRT can borrow small table top display panels for state or regional meeting to promote LIRT membership. Please contact her for details.
Member A-LIRT - Pixey Mosley is writing the column currently. The goal is to focus on LIRT librarians who are in school or special libraries. Lynn Ossolinski, LIRT Vice President, will be the next profile.
Members present:
Sherry DeDecker, Lorna Peterson, Sharon Stewart, Lenora Berendt, Elaine Nowick, Nerea Llamas, Gina Persichini, Esteban Valdez, Victoria Williamson, Kathleen Kie, Jim Kapoun.
Visitor: Rachel Fenske.
The committee has been working on a project identifying library tutorials on the Web. Sites are added to the committee Web page with abstracts; also on the page is a list of criteria for evaluating Web sites, and a bibliography.
During the two midwinter meetings, committee members evaluated each site, eliminating some and proposing additions, and wrote abstracts. The list was divided by type of tutorial. Our goal is to complete this project by ALA annual and link the list of tutorials to the LIRT home page this summer.
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