Minutes

In Attendance: B. Eden, J. Dwyer, F. Zula and Z. Stewart-Marshall

Introduction

This is a summary of the TitA meeting at ALA on Saturday, June 27, from about 10 am to 11:30 p.m. Although I knew that a few people would not be able to attend ALA, I was still surprised that only 3 committee members and no program presenters attended the meeting. It was difficult, if not impossible, to conduct the meeting, and nothing was accomplished except to discuss the web page (since Zoe was there), and obtain input from Jim and Fred and Zoe on future discussions.

Web Pages

Our web page is up and running (thanks to Zoe and subcommittee). Please take a look at it, and send comments, suggestions, opinions to Zoe. (zoe@hawaii.edu)

• Zoe would like comments on navigation and content issues.
• Also, we discussed a "coming attractions" section to feature our digital arts salon for Annual 1999. Any other ideas for this section??
• We also discussed setting up a "webliography" of various technology and arts resources, working with other LITA and ACRL committee heads. Debra, this is something you could probably do, or appoint a subcommittee on.
• Links to related associations, like VRA (Visual Resources Association), OLAC (Online Audiovisual Catalogers), and DRC (Digital Resources Committee) would be good also. If you know the http addresses of these associations, and any others of interest, please forward them to Zoe.
• Once we have spiced up our web page with these and any other suggestions all of you may have, we should announce the web site on LITA-L and ACRL listservs and newsletters.
• Also, anyone have any cool graphics to put up on the site (preferably 3-D)??

Annual 2000 Subcommittee

We talked about setting up another subcommittee to begin planning Annual 2000, which will be on censorship. It would be good to set up a program on this topic, or digital storytelling, as Jim suggested. In any case, I think that it would be a good idea for Debra to set up an Annual 2000 subcommittee, appoint a chair and some committee members, to begin discussions on this topic, especially since no one was at our meeting.

Final comments

Some final comments as ex-chair and now just member:

• I think that this interest group has finally got a good start on planning, organizing, and presenting a viewpoint to ALA members at large. I would hope that this would continue in the future.
• Alot of work was done via email between Midwinter and Annual, and I would imagine that this is the way work will be done in the future, but it still is important for committee members to attend our ALA meetings as much as possible. While much can be done via email, we still need to meet face to face in order to accomplish closure and begin new initiatives.
• There was some confusion concerning locations and times for our program this year, but that was because of Conference Program Planning and not this committee, as Debra and I were contacted on numerous occasions about the problem, and thought that it was taken care of. I don't think that this will happen in the future.
• I think that we need to compile a procedures manual for future chairs concerning Program Planning in regards to both LITA and ACRL requirements, to make transitions smoother and less stressful.
• Thanks, Laura Greene for presenting our Program 1999 to ACRL Program Committee (and thanks Monica for arranging this, as I had no idea what was going on in this regard), and thanks Debra for doing the same at LITA Program Committee(?)(I may have which one they each went to mixed up).

Dr. Brad Eden
beden@nhmccd.edu

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