From the President

By Mitch Stepanovich, stepanov@flash.net

Those of you familiar with the LIRT committee structure are aware that the conference begins for us with the All Committees Meeting on Saturday morning. It is a very efficient and convenient arrangement whereby our committees conduct their business in one large room; also making it easy to deal with inter-committee issues. Your officers also find it a great opportunity to resolve loose ends or to visit with the different groups. The remainder of the conference is a scattering of LIRT meetings in different locations and often in conflict with desirable meetings or programs of other ALA groups. At the midwinter conference in San Antonio, your Executive Board and Steering Committee discussed an alternative, that of creating a second All Committees Meeting. Doing so would create the same efficient and convenient arrangement at the end of the conference and would leave our committee members free to attend other desired meetings or programs in between. We will move to this new structure with the next midwinter conference and evaluate the effect afterwards. This will also provide new or inactive LIRT members a second opportunity to stop in, browse, and become familiar with your organization.

The summer conference will also be the first time our two new LIRT committees will meet. One will focus on instruction for adult populations and the other will focus on instruction for the high school to college transition. We’re looking for heavy involvement by our school and public librarians on these two new committees so if you’re interested, contact either me or Alison Armstrong, your Vice President/President Elect.

We have a fabulous program lined up for Chicago. Anne Houston and her dedicated committee have put together an event that promises to be both entertaining and informative. "Teaching As Performance" will look at ways to improve our instruction through better presentation skills. For more details visit the LIRT website at http://www.baylor.edu/~LIRT/ See you all in Chicago.

LIRT News, June 2000. Volume 22, number 4.
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