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* Friday, August 4, 2006

A Sample of Things I Heard My First Week at ALA

  • Rob Carlson, talking about blogs and wikis: "Everybody is asking for this stuff." Today Rob told me they're running more than a dozen blogs for various pieces of ALA, and the wiki farm is just about ready.
  • Louise Gruenberg, talking about the pending conversion of web pages from the old content management system to the new one: "Most people don't realize there are 60,000 web pages on the ALA website. That's almost a page per member, and they all need to be moved over. Each one deserves its 15 minutes of reading."
  • Leonard Kniffel, making an observation based on the fact that a link for election information will soon appear on the ALA home page: "The duration of an ALA election, if you begin with the appointment of the Nominating Committee (before Annual) to the announcement of the winners (May), practically lasts all year. It's longer than a pregnancy."

I also want to point out that ALA has at least four Flickr accounts that help tell the story of the Association (ALA, Spectrum Scholars, and the TechSource Blog), as well as a LiveJournal site.

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