I found it ! - RDA Report to ALA Executive Board

Here is the link:
http://www.ala.org/ala/ourassociation/governanceb/executiveboard/eboardagenda/annual2007a/EBD12_53_1.pdf

Here is the bottom line is on page 8

RDA - Status and Next Steps

Resource Description and Access (RDA) will supersede Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd edition in 2009.

It says "No significant changes to existing records will be required" I wonder what Significant means and more importantly - what changes in indexing will be required to OPACS and How much that will cost.

Ok, that being said I will continue - "RDA instructions are designed to be independent of the format, medium or system used to store or communitate the data, and to be readily adaptable to newly-emerging database structures."

Although it says it is readily adaptable, it still does not answer the question of existing ILS - (Integrated Library Systems) and what changes in access points will be have to be made on the public library catalog for patrons and librarians to learn.

ida

Guadalajara!

I received one of the 150 ALA FIL awards to go to Guadalajara this year to help purchase Spanish Library Materials for San Mateo County.

If anyone in cyberland reads this and has gone before, I would love to know some veterans tips - do's and dont's....

tks,
Ida

Good News for Spectrum from Loriene Roy

This I received via the NMRT listserv and I hope it is ok to cut and paste emails - as I think the entire contents of Loriene Roy's email is important to know.

It is wonderful to see from this email the positive move of Loriene Roy and the ALA board that
in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the Spectrum Scholarship the Board approved the transfer of $500,000 from the ALA Future Fund to the Spectrum Scholarship Fund. This enables the program to continue.

In the email I am happy to see the minimum of Spectrum Scholarships per year will be 30, although there will still be 100 to 120 emerging scholars a year... yes, i know they are different programs, but my bias would be for 100 Spectrum Scholars entering library school and then being trained as emerging leaders.

There is also reference to a report given on RDA to the executive board. I have not found that yet - but I am looking for it and will report back.

ida

From: Loriene Roy
> Date: July 25, 2007 12:37:32 PM CDT
> To: ALA Council List
> Subject: [alacoun] Message to Council, RE: ALA Exec Board Action and > Discussion at the 2007 ALA Annual Conference
>
>
> Dear Colleagues:
>
> I wanted to update you on some of the actions and discussions of the
> Executive Board at Annual Conference. We welcomed new ALA Board Members
> Charles Kratz, Jr. and Larry Romans, Treasurer Rod Hersberger and
> President-elect Jim Rettig.
>
> In commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the Spectrum Scholarship
> program, the Board approved the transfer of $500,000 from the ALA > Future
> Fund to the Spectrum Scholarship Fund. This transfer increases the > funds
> available through the Spectrum family of funds to $4.5 million.
>
> These funds will result in the awarding of five additional Spectrum
> scholarships per year, beginning in June 2008, and brings the yearly > total
> of awarded scholarships to a minimum of 30. It should be noted that > this
> transfer is made possible in large part to the fact that the ALA > Long-Term
> Investment (Endowment) fund recently surpassed the $30 million mark.
>
> The Board approved a recommendation from the 2007 Election Committee > that
> the date of the announcements of the ALA Election results will now be > the
> Friday before the first Monday in May. Formerly, the results were
> announced on the first Monday of May, but this has frequently coincided
> with ALA Library Legislative Day in Washington, DC, preventing the > members
> of the Election Committee, which meets in Chicago, from participating, > and
> also making the notification and announcement process more difficult.
>
> The Board deferred action on other recommendations related to the > ballot,
> and requested that the 2008 Election Committee, chaired by Nann Blaine
> Hilyard, prepare recommendations for consideration by Council at the > 2008
> Midwinter Meeting.
>
> Following approval of the Budgetary Ceilings by Council, the Board
> approved the FY 2008 budget.
>
> The Board approved Los Angeles as the site of the 2018 Midwinter > Meeting,
> New Orleans as the site of the 2018 Annual Conference, Seattle as the > site
> of the 2019 Midwinter Meeting and New York as the site of the 2019 > Annual
> Conference. The Board also approved a change in the dates of the ACRL > 2011
> Conference in Philadelphia.
>
> In Executive Session, the Board approved the appointment of a
> representative to the U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield. An official
> announcement will follow once the candidate has been notified and the
> nominee has accepted the appointment.
>
> In addition, the Board heard and discussed reports from the Endowment
> Trustees, BARC, the Washington Office, Development Office and Graduated
> Dues Task Force, and saw a presentation on the new ilovelibraries.org
> advocacy web site. Meeting in executive session, the Board also heard > an
> update on various confidential legal matters from ALA's Counsel.
>
> The Board was joined by representatives from the Resource Description > and
> Access (RDA) working group. The working group representatives described
> the evolution of RDA and answered questions about RDA and its
> implementation.
>
> The Board reported on their liaison visits to various committees,
> divisions, round tables and affiliates. The Board Liaison program is
> designed to increase communication between the Board and these groups > and
> provide the Board with an opportunity to better understand - and > respond
> to - member issues and concerns.
>
> For more information on the meetings, or to see copies of the Board
> documents distributed at the meetings, please go to
> http://www.ala.org/ala/ourassociation/governanceb/executiveboard/> eboardagenda/agendas.htm.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Loriene Roy,
> President

Norcal IUG conference

I read through a misc listserv that I am on that there is a Northern California Innovative Users Group meeting on Nov 16th. I will try to find more information - if anyone is out there and knows of it - please let me know.

Thanks,
ida

First Post received

Thanks for whoever looked at my blog and posted back about the Emerging Leaders Program. I did get a point wrong that The participants are soon to be librarians, they are librarians. A friend of mine applied and was accepted to the E.L. program while in library school, not quite yet a librarian, but i should have checked the facts.

I stand with my position that I wish that there were more support and visibility within ALA for Spectrum. The Spectrum program which last year had it's largest group of 69 scholars last year is funded through "individuals and organizations above and to a substantial grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services...source "http://www.ala.org/ala/diversity/spectrum/spectrumscholarsb/specscholars05.htm

I saw Betty Turlock herself - write a check for $10,000 for the program and present it at the Spectrum luncheon. Leslie Burger wasn't there.

There is some funding of emerging leaders through all programs that sponsor an Emerging Leader of about $1,000 per E.L. which had 100 the first year and will have 120 this next year. In a few years it will top the total number of Spectrum Scholars which to date is 415.

So proportionally, there will be more of an emphasis on young emerging leaders, rather than getting diverse librarians into the library profession to be trained to be leaders.

I looked through the ALA flickr pictures of those in emerging leaders and others can do the same to make their judgments as to whether or not it is a diverse program or not.

Some observations about ALA DC 2007 - to be expanded...

First some facts:

"This was the largest attended ALA conference in history," said Deidre Irwin Ross, director, ALA Conference Services.Record attendance More than 28,635 almost 30,000 librarians, exhibitors and library supporters attended the 128th ALA Annual Conference at the Washington Convention Center from June 21 to 27.

As of May 31, 2007, ALA membership was 65,605. This compares to 66,382 at the same point in 2006. Total ALA membership includes the following: Personal Members – 61,806 (compared to 62,293 in 2006) Organizational Members – 3,537 (compared to 3,821 in 2006) Corporate Members – 262 (compared to 268 in 2006)

From ALA Council of Kansas
http://kalac.tscpl.org/2007/06/ :

Division Membership – Comparisons May 31, 2007 – May 31, 2006
1)ACRL 13,639 13,068
2)PLA 11,049 11,655
3)AASL 9.422 9,904

4)RUSA 5,533 5,283
5)YALSA 5,527 5,122
6)LAMA 5,406 5,076
7)ALCTS 5,174 4,894
8)LITA 4,281 4,061

Council other notable conference 2007 Facts:·

450 international librarians from 87 countries will be attending the ALA Annual Conference this year.

Over 2,600 attendees are self-identified first-timers at the ALA Annual Conference.

Why I go:
Great speakers including:- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - Julie Andrews -- Ken Burns - all of whom I did not see.

My goals = Try to focus on my two areas of specialty.
1) Cataloging issues and Diversity
2) Reconnect with old colleagues and make some new ones.

For Cataloging issues – went to several OCLC programs, and authority control programs – info on RDA .. went to a meeting at the library of congress!!

For diversity Many Voices, one nation, Spectrum Luncheon with Nikki Giovanni, I spoke at "10 years later – spectrum scholarship where are they now", and they had a great Book Mobile – diversity fair.

Brief mental notes I made about ALA 2007 annual

1) I thought it was interesting that some bloggers mentioned " what are us 2.0 people doing at a 1.0 event" – It made me wonder about future ALA conferences - will they be partly online or webcast in the future?

2) It seemed that diversity took a back seat at this conference to Leslie Burger's Emerging Leaders Program. She started the program last year with 100 soon-to-be librarians, mainly bloggers, not so diverse and with a mandatory requirement of being under the age of 35 or under. There were never 100 Spectrum scholars picked in a single year. I feel that the emphasis that ALA wanted to make was on generational access issues - not diversity. Both I think are equally important. So I was disappointed at this ALA turn in policy.

3)Before Leslie Burger, Carla Hayden was always awesome and supportive of the Spectrum Scholars by the way.

It’ll be interesting to see what happens now under Loriene Roy – She has appointed an American Indian as the new Director of the ALA office of diversity…and she has a cataloging background - how great is that?!

4)I feel the digital divide will increase by not having more web savvy bilingual librarians. I am in Reforma and it is not a very 2.0 community and that worries me - as these librarians need to help the minority communities get up to speed with technology.

5)Another sign of the times - The Hollywood librarian had 6,000 people. The diversity program, Many Voices - One Nation, at the same time was almost empty. Jose Aponte - Director of San Diego County was the MC - he is super fabulous and always brings the message back to - we are here to serve for the people. He also MC'd the Spectrum Luncheon and said the best thing I heard at the whole convention, "Do something terrifying everyday!"

6)Lita seemed everywhere in the programs - although when I looked at the numbers, it is a membership of only 4,000 whereas other divisions have around 9,000 members. RUSA didn't seem to have that much going.

7)SRRT – is small, but I love the fact that they took all the ALA resolutions that were passed and walked over to congress and passed them out office to office. I had a friend involved with that mission - I applaud this action.

8) On the plane on the way to ALA – met a great guy and his wife. He is the blogger Bombasto!

His blog was on point as to what was going to be there at ALA it says:

If you’re staying, you can attend LITA’s BIGWIG (Blogs, Wikis, and Social Software Interest Group) Social Software Showcase unconference, implying that while this shindig is taking place during ALA in Washington DC, it will be a virtual meet, complete with a Twitter feed, Meebo access, and Flickr goodness so you can “be there” and participate in the discussion and presentations via your favorite online apparatus.

The ALA conference materials also advertised:

If you are going, join me at the Library 2.0 (Ning) mixer, the iSchool’s alumni & friends reception, the Facebook Librarians after hours mixer, or perhaps in one of the 300+ programs available….

It’s a 2.0 Library World!

Ida's Speech at the ALA Conference 2007 in DC

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Ida's Speech at ALA DC for the 10 year Anniversary of the Spectrum Scholarship. Good afternoon everyone, My name is Ida and I am very proud to be a Spectrum, 2003 Scholar and I am especially delighted to be here for the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Spectrum Initiative. I wish EVERYONE could experience the sheer joy of getting that phone call from ALA telling them that they had just won this terrific scholarship. I still remember receiving that phone call on May 26, 2003. It was at 8am in the morning. "Hello this is Wendy callingl from ALA… I'll never forget it! Since then the Spectrum program has provided me with the wisdom of mentorship and the courage and strength to grow to become the –professional. I feel I am today. I would like to tell you - how the mentorship - I received from the Spectrum program was so valuable, that changed the course of my life. For example The Spectrum guidance helped me change the poor perception that I had - of my own ethnic identity. Previously, I felt, that my heritage hindered me in life. I am half Mexican and half Italian and Portuguese. Being interracial and, going through grammar school and high school in the 1970's in the United States is not the experience that it is today. I grew up in a white neighborhood. where there was no one like me that I could really identify with and to top it off I was even cruelly teased at times. The importance of this is that When a person is young and doesn't (see successful people of color in positions) - like Librarians or teachers or doctors it limits a person's dreams of what they think they can be achieve but now because of the - J-Lo's,- Halle Berrys, and Obamas, we have minority pioneers forging new and exciting paths and thanks to the Spectrum Initiative we also have growing numbers of minority librarians. Yeah! I hope younger generations will not feel the same limitations I did I hope they will think --- If others can do it why can't I? And this feeling of why can't I do it? Is something that I learned from role models at the Spectrum Institute. At the 2004 institute I listened to motivational speeches given by - (Brilliant women of color) who included deans of universities and even (a former president) of ALA. I heard Stimulating lectures, from : Dr. Camile Alire, Dr. Carla Hayden Dr. Patti Montiel Overall & Tracie Hall and many others... This Institute changed my perception about careers being unattainable and replaced those ideas with the thoughts of many attainable possibilities. It was also at the Spectrum Institute that I felt for the first time, that my bilingulalabilities - HAD - SPECIAL - WORTH. After receiving the Spectrum Scholarship I was able to complete my graduate education at San Jose State University in 2005. I also started my professional journey by joining other ethnic librarian groups like Reforma and CALA where I became friends and colleagues with other multicultural librarians. Through these groups I was able to observe different libraries serving California's multicultural populations in San Francisco Oakland and San Jose. where I live But despite all these broadening - multicultural experiences I –was- still stuck I was still working in a library position where the only time I used my Spanish was when the staff would ask me to write the basura on the side of trash boxes. One such day I was writing basura over and over again on boxes when I guess I had what some would call a "moment of clarity" I stopped and thought to myself– "I have got to put my Spanish language skills to better use than this"! Sothe next lesson I learned from other spectrum scholars was to take action! Specifically I received my push in getting unstuck when I went to ALA's conference in New Orleans last year. There I was so fortunate to sit next to two of my colleagues- who are also presenting here today; Tracy Hall and Luis Mendes. I confided to both of them about my desire to be doing something more meaningful for Spanish speaking communities than writing out the word Basura and at the same time, I confided that I was really scared about moving jobs. I will never forget what Tracy Hall told me at that dinner. She looked straight at me and said – "Ida, Just Do it…. Do it with fear" Something about those encouraging words pushed me forward – I felt a new found sense of motivation in knowing that others felt fear too – but still pushed forward despite of it. Well I am happy to tell you that it was within two months of that dinner - I did leave my comfort zone – and entered the fear zone I interviewed for the position of a BIlingual cataloger for San Mateo County Library System. and I was offered and took the challenging job! In this position not only do I catalog Spanish language materials but I also serve on a Spanish language committee that includes LIBrary staff from ALL of our 12 county branches. This year was a GOOD year for the Spanish committee I want to proudly tell you that my new library won the ALA - PR -award this year for Best Website 15within our budget range. And this website was designed by two of my Latino colleagues; Cris Miranda and Robert Esparza one of whom is on the Spanish committee with me. The catalog has an English and Spanish version I think that really sets it apart from other library catalog web sites. As a committee we also encouraged two other committees; the Children and Programming committees to mount the very first evern system wide program celebrating - dia de los ninos, dia de los libros. I designed and conducted a craft and literature event for one of the branches. I had expected 14 children but 40 actually turned up to learn how to make piñatas. But that was fine ! I showed 40 children how to make mini piñatas we listened to Mexican Music and we had a lot of fun. We also reviewed some of the bilingual literature that was there at the library. I had long been inspired, by Pat Mora's Dia de los Ninos – Dia de los libros project ever since I had read about it in college I had even written papers about the importance of the program in promoting literacy and helping Latino families learn about libraries. I feel we reached out to non latinos as well and shared Latino culture in a positive light. After the event, I couldn't believe that I had actually turned my virtual knowledge that I had learned at the university into an actual program for children. It was a great feeling to be able to do something meaningful like this at last. As you can see the Spectrum initiative has been much more than a scholarship to me and many others, I'm sure Although the scholarship was important – (I was charging my tuition before that on my credit card) The Spectrum initiative provided me with mentorship that I had never known before It offered me friendship wisdom help and encouragement. It helped me obtain a job where I feel I am putting my Mexican heritage to good use and most of all I feel that I am personally making an important difference – finally. Thank you all for being here today and for your grand support of the Spectrum scholarship and Happy 10th anniversary Spectrum!! ida