The group met 2-3 times this quarter.
Recent Activities
First Activity
Agreed on the factors we would use to help compare award nominees. Listed these factors in spreadsheet as a record of our process.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Organizational Stability and Sustainability
Second Activity
Rated the nominees on each criteria, again leaving a record of our process.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Organizational Stability and Sustainability
Third Activity
Made final selection, informed by our ratings and communicated decision to LITA Director and provided information for the press release.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Organizational Stability and Sustainability
What will your group be working on for the next three months?
Nothing. The award has been offered and accepted, the very little work remaining is for the Chair.
Is there anything LITA could have provided during this time that would have helped your group with its work?
Some historical understanding of how past iterations of this award committee did it’s work, and some guidance on whether there is a need to be consistent with or improve upon past process. There was the schedule, which was necessary. But we didn’t have a sense of how many or what quality of nominees we should shoot for, or if there was an expectation about the decision making process itself.
On a practical note, we learned that email from Connect is sometimes flagged as spam or otherwise obscured by mail clients. A heads up on email problems we should watch for would would have saved some annoyance.
Additional comments or concerns:
Just a general question about how much continuity of process is wanted from year-to-year. We tried to leave a good trail in Connect if next year’s committee wants to look at our process.
Submitted by Tod Olson on 03/29/2019
