First Activity
We did not hold programs or other activities in fall 2019. We are not participating in ALA Midwinter 2020. We anticipate holding a panel session as usual at ALA Annual 2020.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Education and Professional Development
What will your group be working on for the next three months?
We will be thinking about potential topics and speakers for a panel session at ALA Annual 2020.
Submitted by Michael Rodriguez on 12/29/2019
The group met 0 times this quarter.
First Activity
Sent call for nominations to lita-l and other email lists.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Member Engagement
Second Activity
Chair contacted committee members to provide timeline and solicit input into process
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Member Engagement
What will your group be working on for the next three months?
We will review nominations after the revised deadline of 1/17 and forward our recommended candidate to our board representative by March 1.
Is there anything LITA could have provided during this time that would have helped your group with its work?
Yes. I received no communication after agreeing to chair the group until late October and no guidance on how to proceed until I asked. It would be helpful for new chairs who are also new to a particular committee to receive an orientation early on.
Submitted by Janet Crum on 12/23/2019
The group met 2-3 times this quarter.
First Activity
Published the December issue of the journal
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Education and Professional Development, Member Engagement
Second Activity
Drafted and nearly finalized a policy to make it clear that article authors may put a copy of their article in a local repository or elsewhere (they maintain copyright, so this is fully in their rights), but requesting that a note be added to such copies asking that the ITAL version be the one cited.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Organizational Stability and Sustainability
Third Activity
Worked with Jenny Levine and HathiTrust to change status of back issues of ITAL to open access in HathiTrust to enable reading of full text of articles there. Previously, digitized issues of ITAL were "search only", not available for reading.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Member Engagement, Organizational Stability and Sustainability
What will your group be working on for the next three months?
Finalizing the policy, working on the March issue, and minor updates to the template used to generate the PDFs for publication.
Additional comments or concerns:
I'm beginning to think about the post-Core plans and processes for ITAL, especially migrating the journal to the TDL platform used by Library Leadership & Management. I noticed that Library Leadership & Management runs version 2.X of the software, while ITAL is on version 3.X. I suspect a downgrade would be a challenge, as the recent upgrade from OJS 2 to 3 conducted by Boston College was not a straightforward one.
Submitted by Ken Varnum on 12/20/2019
The group met 4-6 times this quarter.
First Activity
The WCC spent time working on improving the user experience of the Docs site. By December we had produced a set of development pages and passed them to LITA's executive director for review.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Organizational Stability and Sustainability
Second Activity
We made a breakthrough with the Jobs site. Since no progress towards a payment gateway is possible, the WCC in conjunction with LITA's Executive Director, decided to pursue a more manual method of payment collection instead. Unfortunately some technical challenges remain before the project can go live.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Organizational Stability and Sustainability
Third Activity
We continued to maintain and update our WordPress sites.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Organizational Stability and Sustainability
Fourth Activity
The WCC migrated from KanBanChi to Trello for project management.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Organizational Stability and Sustainability
What will your group be working on for the next three months?
In addition to continuing to maintain and update our WordPress sites we are planning on developing a form which would allow members to suggest changes or updates to LITA's web presence.
Please provide suggestions for future education topics, initiatives, publications, resources, or other activities that could be developed based on your group’s work.
Once the new Docs site is live we could begin to use it as way to preserve documentation for LITA's various functions and preserve/consolidate our institutional memory.
Submitted by Michael Paulmeno on 12/19/2019
The group met 2-3 times this quarter.
First Activity
11/4/19 Meeting (Entire Forum Planning Committee):
* Finalized Theme
* Discussed Planning Timeline
* Discussed general ideas for Forum
* Discussed using the 2020 Forum Slack Channel for ideas for invited keynote speakers ideas/leads (Please note, there's a possibility, we will open up both the opening and closing keynote speakers as an option in the forthcoming call for proposals, due to few leads generated from the committee)
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Member Engagement, Organizational Stability and Sustainability
Second Activity
12/4/19 Web/PR Subcommittee (via email)
* Worked on language for the 'Save the Date' Communication about 2020 Forum
*Requested Forum site access for Web/PR Subcommittee members
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Member Engagement
Third Activity
12/6/19 Sponsorship Subcommittee, 12-1pm Central
* Finalized prospectus for potential sponsors: https://forum.lita.org/sponsors/prospectus/
* Developed a list of potential sponsors to reach out to
* Discussed a communications plan for reaching up and following up with sponsors
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Organizational Stability and Sustainability
Fourth Activity
12/10/19 Programming Subcommittee, 12-1pm Central
* Reviewed LITA Forum Assessment Task Force Report from 2017 for Track ideas that could also be of interest to ALCTS/LLAMA
*Discussed Proposed Tracks
*Discussed Theme and Additional Ideas to tie to Call for Proposal Language
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Education and Professional Development, Member Engagement
Fifth Activity
Scheduled SubCommittee Meetings for January and February:
* Web/PR Subcommittee – Jan 15, 1-2pm Central
*UX/Sustainability Subcommittee -Feb 5, 2-3 Central
*Accessibility/Streaming Subcommittee – Feb 12, 1-2 Central
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Organizational Stability and Sustainability
What will your group be working on for the next three months?
Priorities:
*Reaching out to potential sponsors (Forum Planning – Sponsorship subcommittee)
*Work on Call for Proposals (Forum Planning – Programming subcommittee) (incl. sessions, possibly keynotes, preconferences) and opening it up sometimes in January
*Confirming Opening and Closing Keynote Speakers and preconferences
*Call for local Baltimore LITA/ALCTS/LLAMA members to join new local arrangements subcommittee
Is there anything LITA could have provided during this time that would have helped your group with its work?
N/A — Am grateful and appreciative of Jenny's and Chrishelle's support, feedback and patience. Makes the experience of planning Forum so much easier!
Please provide suggestions for future education topics, initiatives, publications, resources, or other activities that could be developed based on your group’s work.
*Would like to connect with Carli Spina on providing a webinar for accepted speakers on 'Making their Presentations/Talks Accessible'. Depending on sponsorship response, hoping it will enable support for this webinar to be free and compensating Carli for the time and effort.
*Would like to develop a free pre-recorded 'Git for Presenters' talk as a value-added talk for LITA/ALCTS/LLAMA members and accepted speakers. Depending on sponsorship response, hoping it will support the costs of getting previous LITA eLearning Git instructors to do this to allow it to be free to members/speakers.
*Would like to ask current D&I chair for a partnership to provide Allyship training at Forum (2 Forum Planning committee members attended the train the trainer session, and I believe 1 D&I committee member)
*Would also like to partner with D&I and ask for permission to use Drupal's diversity speaker webinar by developing a pre-recorded webinar and adapting to Forum during the call for proposals period. I attended the train-the-trainers session for this, as well. I can spearhead this effort w/o any additional cost…just need to ask permission first. Example of Drupal Diversity speaker content: http://diversein.tech/drupal-sept2019
Additional comments or concerns:
I have suggestions for documenting a generic timeline for the next Joint-Forum (in whatever form that may be) based on lessons learned this year. There needs to be a partnership with this year's Appointment Committee to ensure next Forum Planning Committee has a leadership team consisting of leaders from each Forum Planning subgroup, as well as an overall chair, but I feel at this point, I'm delicately balancing not losing any additional members to ask current members so late in the term. So, I'm managing the best I can. Would like to work with Evviva and Appointments Committee on identifying a Chair-Elect for next joint-Forum Planning committee term to groom/prepare.
Submitted by Berika Williams on 12/18/2019
The group met 2-3 times this quarter.
First Activity
Giving Tuesday fundraising and promotion on social media
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Organizational Stability and Sustainability
Second Activity
Communication with ALCTS regarding potential joint effort for the ALCTS Exchange and the LITA Forum fund-raising
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Organizational Stability and Sustainability
Third Activity
Discussing fundraising plan for the next Avram camp
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Organizational Stability and Sustainability
What will your group be working on for the next three months?
Discussing fundraising plan for the next Avram camp
Submitted by Bohyun Kim on 12/18/2019
The group met 7-10 times this quarter.
First Activity
Nominations sent out the first recruitment form to invite people to nominate themselves or other LITA members. This brought to the attention of the committee several LITA members interested in running for office in addition to standard methods of identification. The committee began contacting nominees for council, VP, and Directors at large positions with the intent of submitting in January a slate to the LITA Board for the 2019 elections.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Member Engagement, Organizational Stability and Sustainability
What will your group be working on for the next three months?
Finalizing the slate to be presented to the Board at ALA Midwinter
Please provide suggestions for future education topics, initiatives, publications, resources, or other activities that could be developed based on your group’s work.
We should have started recruitment earlier than we did, that’s due to challenges of availability for the CHair
Submitted by Abigail Goben on 01/28/2019
The group met 0 times this quarter.
First Activity
We are in a holding pattern pending Board discussion at ALA Midwinter 2019.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Organizational Stability and Sustainability
What will your group be working on for the next three months?
We are in a holding pattern pending Board discussion at ALA Midwinter 2019.
Submitted by Jake Ineichen on 01/26/2019
The group met 0 times this quarter.
First Activity
We are organizing our first conference call for after Midwinter. The group’s work is primarily in winter/early spring.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Member Engagement
What will your group be working on for the next three months?
Awarding the award.
Is there anything LITA could have provided during this time that would have helped your group with its work?
none
Please provide suggestions for future education topics, initiatives, publications, resources, or other activities that could be developed based on your group’s work.
n/a
Additional comments or concerns:
n/a
Submitted by Lisa Hinchliffe on 01/23/2019
The group met 2-3 times this quarter.
First Activity
We worked to diversify our panel by inviting one additional panelist.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Education and Professional Development
Second Activity
We contacted all panelists with an invitation to participate. We wrangled data about each panelist as well as had a meeting between moderator and panelists in order to determine panel format and content flow.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Education and Professional Development
What will your group be working on for the next three months?
We will put out another call for panelists to the Top Tech Trends panel at ALA Annual. We will also be exploring various ways to invite a more diverse group of nominees.
Is there anything LITA could have provided during this time that would have helped your group with its work?
Suggestions of ways to invite more diverse candidates to the pool
Submitted by Tammy Wolf on 01/23/2019
