[Publib] Fwd: [pla-leaders] Update on PLA's communities of practice---feel free to forward to interested members

[Michael Golrick]

Here is a note from the PLA Executive Director which is of interest to
those on this list.

Michael Golrick
ALA Councilor-at-Large
PLA Board member


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Greta Southard <gsouthard at ala.org>
Date: Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 1:34 PM
Subject: [pla-leaders] Update on PLA's communities of practice---feel
free to forward to interested members
To: PLA-Leaders at ala.org
Cc:


I wanted to give you a brief update on the status of PLA's Communities
of Practices (CoP's).  As you know, PLA has developed communities of
practice in a location called www.PLAspace.org

We have developed our communities in the same tool that ALA is using
to develop their communities.  Eventually, our communities will be
merged into the ALA tool when the ALA tool is completely built.

Members have stepped forward to assume the role of community
moderator/manager, and we thank them for taking on this leadership
role. We are all learning as we go and we thank-you, thank-you,
thank-you!

Currently, we have the following CoPs on www.PLAspace.org (and
growing--members can belong to as many CoPs as they want):

Branch Libraries - Paula Settoon - 18 members

Cataloging - Sally Smith - 31 members

Collection Development - CynthiaB [Cynthia Bischoff] - 17 members

PLA Staff - Doug Dawson - 2 members [Established for us to post stuff
outside of CoPs]

Public Library Systems - kdenero [Kim DeNero-Ackroyd] - 4 members

Readers Advisory - MadlynS [Madlyn Schneider] - 115 members

Rural Libraries - Dwight_McInvaill - 25 members

Technology - Amy Terlaga - 77 members

See the invitation from Doug Dawson, PLA Web Services Manager, (below)
to participate in a chat on Friday afternoon:

First Friday Afternoon Chat 10/03/08 3-4 PM CDT

Join PLA staff and the PLAspace developers in an informal chat session
Friday, October 3. There is no formal agenda. We will simply be
demonstrating the chat room feature and sharing comments about the
site, libraries, the baseball post-season(?) - whatever you want to
chat about. Except politics. No politics!

Please feel free to spread the news about the chat. It will be a great
informal session for folks to learn about CoPs and the site. I figure
my role will be to answer questions, much as I did table by table at
the All Committee Mtg in Anaheim. If anyone wants to participate, they
can by going to www.PLAspace.org and creating a user account, and then
logging in at the appropriate time.

Best,

Greta

Greta K. Southard, CAE | Executive Director | Public Library
Association | 50 E Huron St. Chicago IL 60611
t. 800.545.2433 x5028, f 312.280.5029 | www.PLA.org