GODORT (Government Documents Round Table)

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The mission of the Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) is to (1) To provide a forum for discussion of problems, concerns, and for exchange of ideas by librarians working with government documents; (2) to provide a force for initiating and supporting programs to increase availability, use, and bibliographic control of documents; (3) to increase communication between documents librarians and other librarians; (4) to contribute to the extension and improvement of education and training of documents librarians.

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Emerging Leaders project sponsored by GODORT

  • 1.  Emerging Leaders project sponsored by GODORT

    Posted Jul 02, 2010 07:46 AM
    Edited by System Apr 06, 2018 02:18 PM

    At the General Membership Meeting, I said I would link in the information from the Emerging Leaders Program. Happy Reading! And, again, thank you so much for the support! I look forward to helping out with future godort emerging leaders.

    Here is the complete list of Emerging Leaders Projects: http://connect.ala.org/el10projects

    And here is information about Project P for which I worked: https://connect.ala.org/communities/community-home/librarydocuments/viewdocument?DocumentKey=1c9f6948-3b8d-407c-84e8-417e6bc877f5

    And here is our short summary of the report: Every round table and division within ALA has dealt with the proliferation of communication tools from listservs to social networking to the new ALA Connect. Each group has been required to create its own guidelines for using these tools. To consolidate these efforts, the Library and Information Technology Association asked for an ALA Emerging Leaders group to examine the various tools used by the LITA leadership, and analyze how LITA uses each tool. The ultimate goal is to establish best practices for using communication tools with the wider membership. To understand usage, Project P members surveyed the current LITA leadership about their interest in and use of each tool. Our report describes each tool, provides a narrative description of the survey results, and closes with recommendations on using ALA Connect to replicate select functionality of the various tools.

    Please let me know if you have any questions!