[WEB4LIB] Lessons Learned?

[Sloan, Bernie]

Karen Schneider said:

"Btw, Gorman's comments have also been picked up by Instapundit."

Some of his comments made the "quote of the day" in the
SiliconValley.com e-newsletter, along with the caption: "American
Library Association president Michael Gorman's bid to become the
blogging community's next whipping boy."

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of K.G. Schneider
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 9:01 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Lessons Learned? 

One take-away for me from Gormangate is that it really does make a
difference who we elect to positions of leadership in our professional
associations. We who support Web 4 Lib and Blogs 4 Lib and Good
Technology 4
Lib et al need to start asking harder questions of our erstwhile
leadership,
and we need to participate in the elections. Turnout just inched past
20%
last year, apparently due to a bump from e-voting. 4 out of 5 members
simply
don't participate. 

Given that some of us have somewhat of a technology agenda for
ALA--wireless
at conferences, a better CMS for the website, more technology support
overall--we need to think of questions to pose to our current ALA
presidential candidates. 

Btw, Gorman's comments have also been picked up by Instapundit.
Librarians--we're famous! Oops, for what, though... 

Karen G. Schneider
kgs at bluehighways.com