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Oops, a correction -- I was on the Board of Chicago Collections for 10 years and president for just 3! ------------------------------ Sarah M. Pritchard University Librarian Emerita Northwestern University Evanston, IL ------------------------------

Another interesting tour option in the city is the Gerber/Hart Library and Archives, a major LGBTQ library. A possible speaker might be the executive director of the Chicago Collections Consortium, a successful multitype library resource sharing group starting 15 years ago explicitly to focus on libraries ...

To Sam Helmick and the members of the Executive Board, It is highly disingenuous that your recent email to ALA members announcing a major new policy -- overturning over one hundred years of our governance culture, and a formal policy in place since 1971 -- buries this shocking news under a peppy update ...

RMRT Colleagues, I will be one of the panelists for the session described below, to be held at the ALA conference in Philadelphia. I will specifically be addressing the situations an academic library dean might seek to address as they prepare to retire. The focus is succession planning and, as a ...

It was mostly not digital and is likely in the ALA archives at HQ. There were a series of reports to Council with updates and recommendations; in some cases action was taken – that was the TF that led to having RT councilors added. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Sarah ...

This is a P.S. to my own comments above.  I don't mean to suggest that members have not already commented on the negative implications of eliminating the Council; and I support the memo submitted by SRRT.  But this whole examination seems to have been somewhat ahistorical.  Maybe I have not read in enough ...

​Dear Lessa and colleagues,  I waited to add more comments to this very long thread, hoping others might already make similar comments to what I'm now saying. But they have not, so I hope you have a chance to see this as you meet this week.  It is not at all clear to me whether anyone -- either on the ...