from the president   from Lynn Ossolinski, lynno@nsn.scs.unr.edu

Dear LIRT Members:

Seasons come and seasons go, but every season has an ALA and LIRT component. Summer begins with the ALA conference. This year in San Francisco was balmy, billowing, and brilliant. The warm sunshine was a blessing to those who wished to frolic in the Gay Pride Parade. The parade's route ran between the LIRT program at the distinguished Saint Francis Hotel and the Moscone Center and the restaurant where Bites with LIRT was scheduled. As I walked with other members from one location to the other, we found our way blocked and had to go down into the BART subway to get across the parade street. Although some others were stuck for hours due to a bomb threat, we came up successfully on the other side--only to find ourselves in a people jam. What a great opportunity it was to get acquainted with other LIRT members as we inched our way down the sidewalk! Well, we did have much to discuss: the LIRT program was outstanding, thanks to the hard work and planning of Kari Lucas and Program chair Marcia King-Blanford. The emphasis on learning styles was right on target. I took frantic notes about visual, auditory and kinesthetic learning, clamored for the presenters' handouts, and reiterated it all to the summer class I am teaching at the University of Nevada Reno.

LIRT had many top-notch events in addition to the program. We saw many LIRT visions realized via the excellent work done by the committees. We took further pride in the LIRT exhibit, the addition of new committee chairs and members, Kari Lucas's LIRT lunch bags, the new LIRT brochure, and the fact that LIRT has proved itself a valuable and financially solvent roundtable. Oh yes, and the dinner at Lulu's for the board prior to my installation was great too! How can I ever thank Kari for the "coronation" with the purple and white Cat-in-the-Hat cap! I did give her an ALA "READ" poster of Fabio to fill her now-empty hours.

This fall we will be planning for mid-winter in New Orleans, and spring will be for preparing next summer's annual conference in Washington DC. Follow the seasons with LIRT at these important meetings and be a part of the seasonal fare, or live vicariously through our web site. 


LIRT News, September 1997. Volume 20, number 1.
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