NOTIS Advisory Group--last call ANN ERCELAWN 25 May 1993 17:21 UTC
**Please reply directly to the author, not to SERIALST. Thanks.--ed. _______________________________________ Date: 25 May 1993 11:42:19 -0500 (EST) From: Alan Alexander-Manifold <ALANAM@PURCCVM.BITNET> Subject: NOTIS Advisory Group--last call This message is directed to individuals at NOTIS sites. If you are not at a NOTIS site, I apologize for cluttering your mailbox. The message is being sent to multiple lists. I apologize for duplication. The following message is virtually identical to those already sent. This is the last call for volunteers and nominations for the NOTIS advisory group that will be formed shortly after ALA. Any nominations received after June 1, 1993 may not receive proper consideration. Thanks to those who have already volunteered or nominated someone. I have been charged with getting the process moving towards the formation of a NOTIS Users Council or Advisory Group. Each SIG has been contacted (those that I could reach by e-mail) and offered the opportunity to nominate an individual that they feel would be a good candidate for membership on the Advisory Group. **> I am now making a general request for volunteers from the <** **> user community for membership on this advisory group. <** I want to explain a bit about the selection process, so you will not suffer from erroneous assumptions. The Advisory Committee will be made up of no more than six individuals. We hope to get people who are known and respected by the user community, and who will be able to bring to the discussions a very broad outlook. All nominees and volunteers will be considered using those criteria. As there are more than twenty SIGs, and there are likely to be quite a few volunteers, not all of the people nominated will be chosen. When all of the nominations and volunteers are in, the chairs of the Acquisitions, Cataloging & Authorities, Circulation, LIB1, OPAC & Training, and Serials SIGs will review the resumes and nominations, and will make a recommendation to NOTIS as to who should be appointed to the committee. NOTIS itself will make the final selection. The SIG chairs will meet at ALA Annual meeting at the end of June to agree upon their recommendations. So that they will all have time to review the resumes before they have to meet, all nominations must be returned to me (preferably by e-mail) no later than June 1, 1993. Nominations received after that date may not be given proper consideration. Nominations should include: - Name, institution, position, and duties - NOTIS LMS modules and other products installed (with version numbers), and length of time in production - Years of experience with LMS and other NOTIS products - Other qualifications (experience with other automation products, committees served on, etc.) - SIGs of which you are or have been a member, and SIG offices held - Reasons for wishing to serve You may also nominate someone other than yourself. If you do so, the individual you nominate will be contacted for more specific information after your nomination has been received. Please send me your nomination soon enough that the individual will have time to respond to my request for more information. Please indicate whether you have already contacted the individual you nominate, and whether they have agreed to have their name put forward. If you have any questions, please contact me, either by e-mail or by traditional methods. Do not send nominations to the list(s). \ --Alan Alexander-Manifold THe Online Resource Systems Implementation Manager TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT 1530 Stewart Center, Room 363 T // Purdue University Libraries T H H OOO RRR West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1530 T HHH//O O RRR (317) 494-2857 FAX: 494-9007 T H/H OOO R R alanam@purccvm (BITNET) \\ alanam@vm.cc.purdue.edu (Internet) \