Heck, I am a wee bit slow but I have been spurred or nudged into action.

We have 3, yes three, vacancies on the AACL executive this year:

President
Secretary/Treasurer
Director at Large

I don’t need to tell you that AACL is a great group for keeping Alberta College Librarians in touch with each other and that none of the Executive jobs are particularly onerous. We’re not looking for the time commitment of CLA positions, just a bit of your effort to help keep the Association going for another 2 years. And it looks good on your annual report/performance appraisal. All of us need to step up to the plate at some point since we all reap the benefits of the sharing of knowledge and sense of community that happens within the group. For new librarians it is a really good introduction to people who can help and provide advice.

If you don’t believe me or want to hear about what is required from someone currently in the job, the current executive are:

President: Geoff Owens, Mount Royal
Secretary/Treasurer: Lillian Li, Medicine Hat
Director at Large: Karen Hering, Mac Ewan

Also, feel free to call me 430.556.4602 or email me at rminion@oldscollege.ca

If you are interested in a particular position or are willing to step into any vacancy of the three, please let me know by April 4th. If enough of you do not pop out of the woodwork by then, I will start calling you and persuading you, which uses up both your time and my time so it would be smarter to just volunteer.

Thank you for considering these positions.

Hello everyone,

I would like to notify you that AACL member librarians directory had been posted onto AACL's website and can be viewed by members only.

To access:
1: Go to AACL's website: http://aacl.engineseven.com (obviously you are already in the website if you see this message!)
2: Login as a member (you will need to create your own account if you don't have any yet)
3: The directory is under "Member's Only"

Please let me know if you spot any mistake so that I can update as needed.

Regards,

Lilian

Lilian Li (AACL's Secretary/Treasurer)
Medicine Hat College Library Services
403-529-3869
lli@mhc.ab.ca

Hi Everyone,

I want to thank everyone for sending Tom Skinner your AACL statistics for 2006-2007. I realize this is no easy task but these statistics are very helpful to us all.

I want to thank Tom Skinner for his speedy and thorough collection and input of the data.

I have the list below of the sites who have sent in their statistics.
ACAD

· Alliance University College/ Nazarene University College

· Banff Centre

· BCIT

· Canadian University College

· Grant MacEwan

· Kings University

· Lakeland

· Lethbridge

· Medicine Hat

· NAIT

· Norquest

· Northern Lakes

· Portage

· Prairie Bible Institute

· Red Deer College

· SAIT

· St Mary's

· Taylor University

If those sites who still have not submitted need any assistance, please e-mail me or Tom.

susan.brayford@sait.ca
tom.skinner@telus.net

Thanks,

Susan

AACL's Fall 2007 meeting minutes

My first blog posting!

Currently at Lakeland College the Library has the responsibility of providing assistance with staff/student queries relating to copyright. One of our staff members serves as the access copyright contact person for the College and she participates on a copyright listserv, distributes information received from access copyright, and posts signs at the photocopiers, etc. She also fields questions on copyright from internal clients and answers them to the best of her ability and/or directs them to the appropriate person (such as the Chair or Dean).

We are taking a look at this area of work, and considering the time and level of expertise involved in carrying out these duties. We'd be very interested in hearing how others are handling copyright in their institutions.

Is print and/or digital copyright a library responsibility in your organization? If it is, who is primarily responsible for disseminating information and fielding questions in this regard?

If it isn't a library responsibility, which unit in your organization is managing copyright concerns?

Many thanks in advance for any information you can provide. Your help is much appreciated!

Margo

The fall meeting of AACL.

I am having trouble advising students on how to cite e-books in APA style. In particular, some students are asking how to cite an entry in the eCPS (Compendium of pharmaceuticals and specialties). The 5th edition of the APA Publications manual does not deal with e-books separately. Should an entry like this be treated as 71. Internet articles based on a print source? (p.271)

I know that donations are on everyone's list of least popular issues to deal with. We have been approached by an accountant (who knows how useful income tax receipts are!) to donate a large collection of music CDs to us. Although CDs aren't as popular as they used to be, some of the collection may be useful to us. Do any of you know how best to determine a value for such items? Any advice will be appreciated.
Thanks yet again,
Keith