I started my day with my morning visit to Starbucks; however, this morning I was joined by Abe, a catalog librarian from Australia. We had a nice chat.
- 8:00am and my first meeting started. I just got assigned to: ALCTS SS Education committee. Since I'm an intern, I get to take minutes. It wasn't as hard as I thought it might be. I'm excited about being on one of the education committees. The big push for the last couple of years has been to develop core competencies and syllabi for possible online courses. Very interesting, and the committee is hard at work finishing up some courses and identifying core skills in serials.
- I hiked over to another hotel for the next meeting: "Intellectual Freedom: Who's Responsible." Alonso Robinson, attorney with the National Security Agency discussed how legislation affects our national security. A brave man to bring this up in a room full of librarians who are very vocal about the Patriot Act and its affect on patron privacy. This was a good session. His mom is a librarian, so he was actually fairly pro library and at least had a good grasp of all the issues. One point he made was that the definition of what is national security continues to expand (i.e. weather, education, medicine (inoculations)) As this expansion continues, then we will continue to see acts like the Patriot Act that open up new ways to gather information in the name of "national security".
- The last 2 meetings were "Digital Asst Management: Implications for Preservation" and another preservation forum with speakers from NEH and Belfor talking about disaster planning and work done in Louisiana in salvaging library materials after the hurricanes.
A good day with lots to think about.
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