Greetings! If I may say so, the VRT had a most successful record of achievement for 2013-2014.
Among other accomplishments: * Began holding last September monthly Executive Board meetings via Adobe Connect * Redesigned our membership brochure * Revised our bylaws * Codified our governance document * Improved our ALA webpage * Solidified our Facebook presence We ended the year on a particularly high note at the recently concluded ALA Conference at Las Vegas-including: * A well-attended "Happy Hour" at the Gordon Biersch Brewery and Restaurant * A well-attended and most productive Annual Membership and Executive Board meeting (with serious work commencing on planning next year's Gala and other programs for ALA Annual-San Francisco) * Three very well received VRT produced programs: 1. "Leading Successful Media Production Services in Academic and Public Libraries: Different Models, Perspectives, and Recommendations" 2. "Video Librarianship 101 (Public Libraries)" 3. "Video Librarianship 101 (Academic Libraries)" Credit for this success must be accorded to our extraordinarily hardworking and dedicated VRT Officers and Voting Executive Members for 2013-2014: * Susan Pennell - Treasurer * Julia Churchill - Notable Videos for Adults Committee, Chair * Shelly McCoy - Secretary * Matthew Windsor - Membership, Chair * Scott Spicer - Past Chair, VRT * Elizabeth Myers - Programming Committee, Chair * Andrew Horbal - Web Master * Brian Boling - Communications Committee, Chair Finally, there are two other individuals I should like to particularly single out for praise: * Danielle Alderson - ALA Staff Liaison, whose great assistance and wise counsel through the year has been most invaluable * Laura Jenemann, Chair-Elect, VRT, a better chair-elect there could not be and whose great assistance and wise counsel has been likewise most invaluable As you know, Laura has taken over today as the new Chair of the Video Round Table. I am utterly confident that under her leadership, the VRT will accomplish yet even more in 2014-2015. It should be a most exciting year. Thank you all very much. Cheers! Anthony ******************************* Anthony E. Anderson Assistant Director, Doheny Memorial Library University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-0182 (213) 740-1190 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> "Wind, regen, zon, of kou, Albert Cuyp ik hou van jou." ******************************** [http://www.ala.org/vrt/files/images/vrt_logo_small-2.GIF]
VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
