Dear OLAC members,

When I was a kid, I used to watch Bob Hope sing his theme song “Thanks for the Memories”.  As I close out my year as president I do wish to say thank-you for the memories.  It was a pleasure to serve the members, this organization and to help move forward some of the AV cataloging changes. 

Over the past year OLAC has moved from a paper newsletter to an all electronic one.   We have also added the option for electronic payment using PayPal for membership dues and registration fees for this year’s upcoming conference in Macon, Georgia October 14-17, 2010.   Thanks to Nathan Putnam for moving the PayPal issue forward. 

OLAC will be co-sponsoring the preconference 2-part workshop, Cataloging & Description of Cartographic Resources: From Parchment to Pixels, Paper to Digital.  Part 1, Basic Map Cataloging, is scheduled for Thursday, June 24, 8:30-5:00 p.m., and Part 2, Digital Cart Materials Cataloging, is scheduled for Friday, June 25, 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.  Both sessions will be held at the Washington Convention Center 146C.  For more information go to the ALCTS webpage.

Look for the 2009 OLAC research award presentation at the Macon conference as Kevin Furniss and Morag Boyd will discuss “Describing Reproductions:  A Series of Decisions”   The research award winner has been picked for 2010, and we look forward to an announcement soon.

Finally, my thanks to the Executive Board: Sevim McCutcheon, Paige Andrew, Nathan Putnam, Kate James, Bobby Bothmann, Robert Freeborn and Deborah Benrubi .  You are a great group to work with and I so appreciate your patience and your support.  A word of thanks goes out to Jay Weitz for all your help with the conference calls.  I look forward to seeing you all at the OLAC meetings in Washington, D.C and also at the OLAC conference.