Category: May

Instructional Technologies Interest Group – May 2019 Report

Recent Activities

First Activity
I am communicating with speakers for ALA Annual for the LITA Instructional Technologies session. I have been in discussions with one speaker to narrow down topics frequently over the last weeks so now I can touch base again with our LITA guide speaker.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Education and Professional Development, Member Engagement

What will your group be working on for the next three months?
Continued session planning is the main focus. I hope to use feedback from the session regarding tech tools or engagement interest and participation after the conference in June.


The incoming chair is same

Additional comments or concerns:
If there is ALA marketing plans for smaller LITA sessions like ours, please let me know (and I'd be much obliged and happy to help). Thanks!

Submitted by Lilly Ramin on 06/01/2019

Financial Advisory Committee – May 2019 Report


The group met 1 time this quarter.

Recent Activities

First Activity
FAC had an online discussion about Jenny's proposal to create a new member volunteer position. This eLearning Coordinator position "would handle all of the logistics from scheduling to synchronous support to handling evaluation surveys." This alternative to outsourcing the logistics for our webinars and courses could have a positive impact on the LITA budget. The FAC agreed that this was a good idea.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Education and Professional Development, Member Engagement, Organizational Stability and Sustainability

Second Activity
As requested by the LITA Bylaws & Organization Committee, FAC had an online discussion regarding the current FAC bylaws and whether or not the FAC is still needed. Suggestions included making the chair a 2 or 3 year appointment (because of the learning curve) and becoming more proactive on financial issues.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Organizational Stability and Sustainability

What will your group be working on for the next three months?
We will continue to support the Board in any way that is requested. We may need to revisit the merger and the virtual forum at some point.

Submitted by Brian Rennick on 05/31/2019

Frederick G. Kilgour Award Committee – May 2019 Report


The group met 0 times this quarter.

Recent Activities

First Activity
April: By request of the Bylaws committee, reviewed our committee's charge and made a minor suggested change.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Organizational Stability and Sustainability

Second Activity
March: posted announcement of this year's winner to lita-l and
April: composed wording for plaque with assistance from committee members
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Member Engagement

Third Activity
April: updated Chair's timeline to reflect all committee work that was completed and organized files in preparation for the next Chair.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Organizational Stability and Sustainability

What will your group be working on for the next three months?
nothing – our work here is done.

Is there anything LITA could have provided during this time that would have helped your group with its work?
no

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:
none

Submitted by Aimee Fifarek on 05/31/2019

Education Committee – May 2019 Report


The group met 1 time this quarter.

Recent Activities

First Activity
We continued to receive webinar proposals and we discussed additional professional development content as well as collaborated with the CAM committee in seeking synergies amongst our two groups.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Education and Professional Development

What will your group be working on for the next three months?
I am preparing to transition chair leadership to Steven Pryor and assume the role of past chair on the committee.

The committee is looking ahead to developing a webinar series on professional development and collaborate with the CAM committee on a needs assessment survey.

Submitted by Cinthya Ippoliti on 05/31/2019

LITA Blog Subcommittee – May 2019 Report


The group met 1 time this quarter.

Recent Activities

First Activity
The group continues to work on postings and we have created a worflow for interviewing authors for LITA chat and other related activities.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Education and Professional Development

What will your group be working on for the next three months?
We are going to develop a Google calendar to better organize and schedule postings and we look ahead to perhaps inviting guest posts and thinking about how to structure the blog going forward.

Submitted by Cinthya Ippoliti on 05/31/2019

Forum Planning Committee – May 2019 Report


The group met 1 time this quarter.

Recent Activities

First Activity
Committee met on 04/17/2019 and discussed committee composition of subcommittees and:
• Number of days (keep at 1 day pre conference, 2 full days of forum)
• Timing of Sessions (Beginning/End Time each day): Preconference: 1-5pm, Friday: 9am-5:30pm, Saturday: 9am – 3pm
• Number of concurrent tracks/rooms** – 6
• Number of sessions – 60 sessions (+/- depending on length of selected sessions), 2 Keynotes
** in addition, we may also need a Quiet Room and may need a space for potential sponsors
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Member Engagement

What will your group be working on for the next three months?
This is still to be determined.

Sponsorship subcommittee (Galen, Joanna, past-chair Melody, Berika) will meet on Friday June 7th at 1pm Central/2pm Eastern to discuss past experiences with planning timeline and ideas for getting sponsors.

Also we will be actively recruiting additional committee members (incl. at least 1 LLAMA/and 1 ALCTS member).

There will definitely be a meeting for the entire committee again after Annual to get them energized about their respective subcommittee charges so that they can begin the planning process.

Is there anything LITA could have provided during this time that would have helped your group with its work?
Appreciated the organization surrounding a new connect space and online roster for 2020 committee!

We still need a Splash page for Forum 2020 as a way to communicate to membership that Forum is happening in Fall 2020.

Please provide suggestions for future education topics, initiatives, publications, resources, or other activities that could be developed based on your group’s work.
(same as last report – would like to create documentation on the LITA Docs site with important milestones/benchmarks for planning Forum so that future chairs know what to expect)

Additional comments or concerns:
Not at this time.

Submitted by Berika Williams on 05/31/2019

Assessment and Research Committee – May 2019 Report


The group met 0 times this quarter.

Recent Activities

First Activity
Submitted an analysis of LITA Forum participants
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Education and Professional Development, Member Engagement

What will your group be working on for the next three months?
Analyzing LITA job ads for report in January

Is there anything LITA could have provided during this time that would have helped your group with its work?
Nah. We had kind of a weird period with the chair switchover, which is why we didn't meet, but we still did work over email so it was ok.

Please provide suggestions for future education topics, initiatives, publications, resources, or other activities that could be developed based on your group’s work.
Mark talked with me at Midwinter about a data dashboard project which we might try and kickoff after annual depending on how the job bank analysis is going.

Submitted by Laura Costello on 05/31/2019

Linked Library Data Interest Group (LITA / ALCTS) – May 2019 Report

Recent Activities

First Activity
Getting ready for ALA Annual
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Education and Professional Development, Member Engagement

What will your group be working on for the next three months?
Craig will be working with the incoming cochair


The incoming chair is Don't know, you'll have to ask Craig

Submitted by Scott Carlson and Craig Boman on 05/30/2019

Instructional Technologies Interest Group – May 2019 Report

Recent Activities

First Activity
Content planning with presenters for ALA LITAITIG session.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Education and Professional Development, Member Engagement

What will your group be working on for the next three months?
The priority is to make sure the session is planned. I hope to get feedback at the conference after that regarding the session and areas to explore with the IG.

Submitted by Lilly on 05/30/2019

Nominating Committee – May 2019 Report


The group met 0 times this quarter.

Recent Activities

First Activity
The election was successfully run and we have new board members and a new VP!
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Member Engagement, Organizational Stability and Sustainability

What will your group be working on for the next three months?
Clarifying with the Board whether an election will be held in 2020

Submitted by Abigail Goben on 05/30/2019