Dear OLAC Members,

Happy 2010 to you all.  I hope that this year is a more healthy, happy and hopefully better economically than the last year.  It was good to see many of you at this year’s membership meeting at ALA Midwinter.

My thanks to Amy K. Weiss as editor of the newsletter and my thanks to Kate James for taking this on.  I would also like to thank Kate for her service as the treasurer and to Nathan Putnam who now takes this role on as well as Kelley McGrath who leaves CAPC in Robert Freeborn’s capable hands.  I also need to thank Marcia Barrett and Bill Anderson, who quickly stepped in to chair meetings and give reports for people who were unable to make midwinter at the last minute.  The Executive Board met via phone conference again this year before going to Boston.  Thanks to Jay Weitz who arranged this through OCLC.  And finally to Paige Andrew and Sevim McCutcheon for all their assistance, both at mid-winter and throughout this last six months.  You both are very able and so helpful.  I appreciate your willingness to help with whatever needs to be done.  I am always wary to list individuals because it is so easy to forget someone.  So if I left anyone off of this list I apologize.

I believe that this issue will be our first all electronic.  Let us know what you think of it and if there are any suggestions for improving it that you would like to see.  Send your comments and suggestions to any of us on the Executive Board.

Watch for updates to the OLAC web page.  The Executive Board recently set up a Web Steering Committee to help make improvements to the site.  This group will make decisions on content and navigation and appearance of the site.  The Committee Chair will be the Past President of OLAC which will give the group access to the Board for needed advice and approval.  There are two other individuals who volunteered to help with this task.  Thank you Lucas (Wing Kau) Mak from Michigan State and Heidi Frank from New York University for taking on this on.  Heidi will work with this for two years so that there is over-lap on the committee.  My email is ploghry@nd.edu and any suggestions may be sent to any one of us. 

Finally, check the web for updated information up on this year’s biennial conference in Macon.  I look forward to seeing many of you there.