WELCOME 
BACK ISSUES
By Alison Armstrong, alison.armstrong@uc.edu
I find it both exciting and a little bit overwhelming to return back to work from conference. My state of confusion is compounded by the fact that you, the reader, are now getting ready to attend Annual Conference in San Francisco while I, the writer, am still in the mind set of immediate follow-up from Midwinter. So, what issues do I address: the wrapping up of one conference or the getting ready for the next? Perhaps, I’ll touch briefly on both.
My conference experience at Midwinter was very rewarding. I attended our discussion forum and want to thank LIRT Publicity Coordinator, Vanessa Burford (USTA), for the outstanding job she did in moderating the session. As always, I learned from my colleagues and now I have a few more resources than I did prior to conference. The LIRT officers, committee chairs and members did a great job and we are moving forward with an agenda to benefit our membership and maintain a healthy organization. The enormous amount of planning involved for our upcoming 25th Anniversary is well underway and Diana Shonrock (ISU), Chair of the 25th Anniversary TF, deserves our great thanks: thank you, thank you. Turning now to the upcoming conference, Cynthia Akers, Committee Chair for Conference Program 2001, has been busy with her group putting together our program, "Partnerships for Instruction”. I’m sure this program will be another in a long line of wildly successful LIRT conference programs. As well, I anticipate LIRT’s continued success on a number of fronts: collaborating with other groups to promote library instruction and support instruction librarians, and developing resources to share with its membership.
I feel good about all that was accomplished at Midwinter and I have my list of follow-up activities. Now that I’m back at my desk, like everyone, I have piles of work. So while its nice to be back home from Midwinter, I really look forward to getting away and seeing you all in San Francisco.
LIRT News, March 2001. Volume 23, number 3.
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