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Title: Conference Call today (9/21) -- TIME CHANGE -- 1:00 pm edt

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Agenda:

1) Review minutes (last call seems to have been on 8/23), agenda bashing

Dean emailed the DRAFT minutes from the last  call on 9/9

2) Further comments on Holly's draft outline for her presentation?

3) Other presentation possibilities?

        -- CNI/DEc

        -- ALA (Jan + June) (see two notes pasted in down below)

3) Review of various flows (an AI for Steve from the last call; next posting will serve as the basis of this discussion).

4) Other Issues and concerns?

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At 3:02 PM -0400 9/19/07, Gail Clement wrote:

> Your inquiry has been forwarded to me by
> Colby Riggs, as I currently chair LITA's Program Planning Committee. 
> It sounds like you have a very valuable and timely program idea -- one
> that would surely attract the interest of LITA members (and possibly
> other ALA attendees, such as academic librarians in ACRL).  My
> purpose in writing this message is to clarify some of the process
> involved in programming at ALA conferences, so you will have a clearer
> idea to inform how you choose to go forward.
>
> The upshot is that LITA, like other ALA Divisions, does not run formal
> programs at the Midwinter Conference (occasionally we will offer a
> pre-conference workshop to test the waters for something we want to
> offer in another venue).  Midwinter is pretty much a
> smaller-scale, working meeting for those planning programs for the
> Annual Conference in June.  Sometimes a few Interest Groups will
> run a managed discussion at Midwinter and it is theoretically possible
> that there is a LITA group who is planning a discussion that may match
> your area of interest.  Whether they would fold you into their
> existing plans is another matter, but at the very least we should see
> who's doing what before ruling this avenue out.
>
> Plan B is to wait for ALA Annual in June 2008 which takes place in
> Anaheim .  The proposals for this meeting have already been
> reviewed and approved, but LITA has been known to be pretty nimble in
> responding to a great programming opportunity, such as the one you
> present.  ;-)
>
> What I'd like to do, with your permission, is to sniff out which
> Interest Group(s) would be most likely to sponsor a Shibboleth
> program, and then put you in touch with them if they are receptive. 
> It would then be up to you and the folks in the particular LITA IG to
> work out the specifics.  It is the IG that would formulate the
> actual proposal for an annual program and submit it to my Committee to
> review and vote on.  If you all were to go the Managed Discussion
> route, no PPC review is required.
>
> Hope this makes sense.  Please let me know if you would like me
> to make some inquiries on your behalf.  At the very least, we
> would have done the matchmaking so you would know where in LITA you
> might find a 'home' for your program ideas.
>
> And thank you so much for bringing these great ideas to LITA!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Gail Clement
> Chair, LITA Program Planning Committee
>
> Head, Digital Collections Center
> Florida International University
> Miami, Florida 33199
> 305/348-6708Gail,

At 9:10 PM -0400 9/19/07, Dave Bretthauer wrote:

> Hi Steven,
>
> I'm sharing your email with Eva Bolkavac, who is the current LITA
> Standards Interest Group Chair. In the past you worked with the
> LITA
> Open Source Systems Interest Group, which is of course a natural
> group
> to sponsor a program on Shibboleth.
>
> The reason I thought of the Standards IG is because you seem to want
> to
> put together a presentation for ALA Midwinter, the Standards IG has
> a
> regular "Standards Update" discussion which happens anyway
> and might
> reach a wider audience, and while Shibboleth isn't strictly speaking
> a
> standard, it is an up and coming AuthN/AuthZ model which I know lots
> of
> vendors still would like to see
> implemented.
>
> I'd encourage you and Eva to discuss this further and see if you
> can
> come to agreement on an appropriate presentation. As Gail says,
> ALA
> Annual in June/Anaheim is a possible Plan B, and while I'm no longer
> a
> formal member of LITA's Program Planning Committee, I'd be happy to
> do
> anything I could to help put together a program if that route seems
> most
> appropriate.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Dave
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> Dave Bretthauer
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