According to the FriendFeed thread, we've decided to meet Saturday night at Giordano's - 223 W Jackson location (http://www.giordanos.com/menu.php). Time (right now, 6:30ish seems to be the time) and number of people TBD. Please post here or in the FriendFeed thread (http://friendfeed.com/lsw/ff21beb6/ala-meetup-thread-revised-will-be-sat...) if you are able to go.

From Jason Griffey, of LITA BIGWIG

LITA Committee Chairs, IG Chairs, and other technically inclined library folk,

This year, the LITA Program Planning Committee, in an effort to modernize the workflow for planning programs for ALA Annual, has moved the process entirely online! The following is the form that you can fill out if you are interested in proposing a program via LITA for ALA Annual 2010, June 24-30th in Washington, DC:

http://tinyurl.com/LITAPrograms2010

bonjour tout le monde,
so i'm proposing a meetup at SLA.
how is sunday, june 14 around 5:30pm for everyone?
i have it on good authority (chris z) that RFD (http://www.lovethebeer.com/rfd.html) is wickedfunhappytimes.

sound good?

if you're gonna be there - leave a message in the comments, or in the friendfeed room (started a thread there).

cheers!

amy (jambina)

Anyone got any ideas on when/where to have an LSW meetup during Annual this year?

AWARD and AWARD CRITERIA

Thanks to the generous support of Marshall Cavendish, NMRT is able to offer three tickets to the Newbery/Caldecott/Wilder Banquet at the ALA Annual Conference. Tickets are $94 each, which would be out of the financial reach of most NMRT members if it weren't for the generosity of Marshall Cavendish.

Whatever the Library Society of the World is/was/will be, there's one thing I am sure of: we like nerdy t-shirts.

Introducing the latest: The Library Society of the World Cod of Ethics T-Shirt and Related Merchandise.

Okay, so....I'm still looking into this, but this is something I'd really like to see at least make a solid attempt at happening. From the FriendFeed discussion of my previous post, it looks like there are two ways this can go. I like both of them.

Direction Number 1 -

The LSW Cataloging Working Group, shortened LSWCWG and roughly pronounced the way the Welsh would pronounce it (Lisookoog), will study issues in cataloging, then make light of them, the way Andy Rooney does every week on 60 Minutes. "Didja ever notice there's no LC subject heading for the Mariana Trech?"

Our primary activities will be drinking, taking potshots Library Thing, mocking AUTOCAT, whining about DTIC-created records, condemning OCLC, and drinking. I'll have a Newcastle.

So, rattling around in my head the last couple days is an idea based on an ALA TechSource blog post by Jason Griffey. In the post, he talks about the equipment and programs he uses to record the podcasts that show up on the LITA blog.

A while back on FriendFeed, LSW Baroness Laura Harris was asking about codes of ethics for professional organizations. LSW Grammarian in Chief Laura Crossett made a comment with a small typo, referring to the "ALA Cod of Ethics." Which prompted me to make this:

And post it to FriendFeed.