2005 Conference – Day 3: pt.1
Well, since we didn’t get back in the middle of the night from the tour yesterday, it we’re not too tired in the morning, but it’s still tough getting up and around. But we manage it, and even get some breakfast to fortify us for the long morning of meetings ahead!
The devotional today is from Union’s Band Director, Rudy Dennis, who tells us a story about his journey to this year’s GC session. He had some car trouble and was helped out by an Elvis impersonator. Well, why not, I say. If Elvis can’t help you out of a jam, then he might as well be dead.
Then Bruce McClay presents a short talk, which may be the first presentation on the actual topic of our conference. The presentations so far have all been good, mind you, but haven’t always been aimed as obviously at the stated theme of our conference as this one. Which is kind of a shame, because it’s something we need to think about more in our roles as librarians. We are providing a ministry of a type to our students and faculty, and we need to be more aware of that.
Then we have a panel discussion on the faculty status of librarians at SDA colleges. At one time, ASDAL had a standing committee to look at this topic, but they basically reported their findings and disbanded themselves. But the time may have come to advocate more seriously for keeping faculty status for librarians. Schools are always looking for places to cut spending, and if they don’t’ have to pay librarians as much, that will make them happy, I’m sure. So watch the ASDAL web page for documents and web links on this topic.
After a break, we’re back into a Business Session. This is when I finally get to give my reports as Web Coordinator and Chair of the SDA Classification Advisory Committee. I should really start writing my reports down and figuring out what I’m going to say before I get up in front of everyone. I tend to forget some points I want to make. But I do remember to mention this blog, so maybe some people will come and read it. Hello, readers! I don’t have much to report about the SDA Classification schedules, though. Marilyn just hasn’t had time to work on them since becoming chair of Loma Linda’s Heritage Room. Plus she wants to give the editorship to someone else at some point, so I have a bad feeling it’ll be me. It’s not that I’m worried about the work that keeping the schedule up to date will take, I just have misgivings about the amount of power I would have to assign classification numbers. I always think it should be someone much wiser and more experienced than I am, but I don’t know. Maybe the people at LC who do this have the same misgivings, but just get on with it. Of course, there’s a lot more of them than there are of me, so each new number they give out probably has to go through a few committees. I guess I’ll just have to do my best if asked.
And really, if you want to know more about what happened at the Business Session, read the Minutes that Marge took. That’s why she takes them. I’ll put them up on the page at some point after she cleans them up and gives them to me. So check back in a bit. In the mean time, it’s time for lunch, and I’ve got take-out Greek Pizza and chocolate-dipped baclava waiting for me in the room!
The devotional today is from Union’s Band Director, Rudy Dennis, who tells us a story about his journey to this year’s GC session. He had some car trouble and was helped out by an Elvis impersonator. Well, why not, I say. If Elvis can’t help you out of a jam, then he might as well be dead.
Then Bruce McClay presents a short talk, which may be the first presentation on the actual topic of our conference. The presentations so far have all been good, mind you, but haven’t always been aimed as obviously at the stated theme of our conference as this one. Which is kind of a shame, because it’s something we need to think about more in our roles as librarians. We are providing a ministry of a type to our students and faculty, and we need to be more aware of that.
Then we have a panel discussion on the faculty status of librarians at SDA colleges. At one time, ASDAL had a standing committee to look at this topic, but they basically reported their findings and disbanded themselves. But the time may have come to advocate more seriously for keeping faculty status for librarians. Schools are always looking for places to cut spending, and if they don’t’ have to pay librarians as much, that will make them happy, I’m sure. So watch the ASDAL web page for documents and web links on this topic.
After a break, we’re back into a Business Session. This is when I finally get to give my reports as Web Coordinator and Chair of the SDA Classification Advisory Committee. I should really start writing my reports down and figuring out what I’m going to say before I get up in front of everyone. I tend to forget some points I want to make. But I do remember to mention this blog, so maybe some people will come and read it. Hello, readers! I don’t have much to report about the SDA Classification schedules, though. Marilyn just hasn’t had time to work on them since becoming chair of Loma Linda’s Heritage Room. Plus she wants to give the editorship to someone else at some point, so I have a bad feeling it’ll be me. It’s not that I’m worried about the work that keeping the schedule up to date will take, I just have misgivings about the amount of power I would have to assign classification numbers. I always think it should be someone much wiser and more experienced than I am, but I don’t know. Maybe the people at LC who do this have the same misgivings, but just get on with it. Of course, there’s a lot more of them than there are of me, so each new number they give out probably has to go through a few committees. I guess I’ll just have to do my best if asked.
And really, if you want to know more about what happened at the Business Session, read the Minutes that Marge took. That’s why she takes them. I’ll put them up on the page at some point after she cleans them up and gives them to me. So check back in a bit. In the mean time, it’s time for lunch, and I’ve got take-out Greek Pizza and chocolate-dipped baclava waiting for me in the room!
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