Subject: STARS - new ALA resource sharing section
From: Mary Hollerich <hollerich_at_northwestern.edu>
With the usual apologies for cross-posting:
On behalf of the ALA RUSA Resource Sharing Section Feasibility Task
Force, I am pleased to announce that it is official: at the ALA
Midwinter conference last January, the RUSA Board unanimously approved
formation of a new resource sharing section called STARS - Sharing and
Transforming Access to Resources Section. The section will officially
be available for membership effective September 1, 2004.
In the next couple of months, our task force will put together a slate
of candidates for the Executive Committee positions (chair,
vice-chair/chair-elect, secretary, and 3 members-at-large), and hold
an election at the RUSA MOUSS Interlibrary Loan Discussion Group
meeting at the 2004 Annual Conference in Orlando (exact time and date
TBA). The newly-elected Executive Committee will then appoint
committee members and section representatives to the RUSA
division-level committees.
The Task Force is also in the process of putting together a STARS
committee volunteer form - we will post the URL as soon as it is
ready, along with a list of the committees to be formed this year.
The STARS section charge is available at:
http://www.ala.org/ala/rusa/rusaourassoc/rusasections/stars/rusastars.htm.
Our tentative Implementation Schedule, which includes a complete list
of all committees and discussion groups and the years in which they
will be formed, can be found at:
http://www.ala.org/ala/rusa/rusaourassoc/rusasections/stars/implementationschedule/starsimplementsked.htm.
If you have any questions about STARS, please feel free to contact me
directly at hollerich_at_northwestern.edu.
Mary
Mary A. Hollerich
Associate Director for Access Services
Pritzker Legal Research Center
Northwestern University Law School
357 E. Chicago Ave.
Chicago, IL 60611
312-503-0300
hollerich_at_northwestern.edu
Received on Wed Apr 14 2004 - 12:46:51 EDT