Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Welcome to the 2009 E-Meeting - Section 37, Genealogy and Local History, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions

Welcome to the GENLOC e-meeting blog. This meeting will be held from 16 - 20 June, 2009 and will be moderated by the Section Chair, Ruth Hedegaard. Blog administration will be managed by the Information Coordinator, Janet Tomkins.

This meeting is open to members of the Standing Committee. All members should have received an invitation to join via e-mail. To join, you will need to create a Google account if you do not already have one.

A POST has been created for each agenda item. The list of POSTS appears below.

Please do not add new POSTs. Instead, add your COMMENTS on each agenda item to the corresponding post.

1. Strategic Plan Review.

We need to submit an update to the strategic plan later this year. Please review the current strategic plan and post your comments and suggestions here.

2. Milan Conference.

Please post questions, comments, information etc. here regarding the program for W.L.I.C. in Milano.

3. Section Membership.

Please post comments, ideas etc. regarding recruiting new section members here. We need more section members if we are to continue as a section within I.F.L.A.

4. Newsletter.

Please post ideas and comments concerning the Section 37 newsletter here.

5. Brisbane Conference Program.

Please post comments here concerning the Genealogy and Local History Section program for W.L.I.C. Brisbane, Australia - August 2010.

6. Any Other Item.

Please post comments regarding any items of interest or concern not covered by other agenda items.