LITA Electronic Candidates Forum

[wake@wln.com]

     PNLA list members:
     In conjunction with the 1997 elections, LITA will be holding an 
     Electronic Candidates Forum on the LITA-L list. This forum is intended 
     to provide LITA members with an opportunity to ask candidates 
     questions about substantive issues which interest them, and to 
     encourage discussion among the candidates and LITA members. We're 
     posting this notice to the PNLA-L list to invite PNW librarians to 
     lurk on what organizers expect to be a lively discussion, and to 
     remind PNW LITA members that the LITA-L list is there for your use.
     
     To participate in the Forum, you need only remain subscribed to the 
     LITA-L list. To join LITA-L, send an email message in this format:
        to:  listproc@ala.org
      leave the subject line blank, and in the body of the message, type:
        subscribe LITA-L Your Name
     where 'Your Name' is your first and last name. (Your email address is 
     captured automatically from the message envelope.)
     
     The forum will begin Monday, May 5, as candidates post answers to an 
     initial set of questions compiled by the LITA Nominating Committee. 
     Discussion among candidates and list members will ensue for the 
     following week, and final statements from the candidates will be 
     posted by Friday, May 16, 1997. Following the forum, all messages 
     related to this topic will be archived on the LITA website until 
     Friday, June 5 (when completed election ballots are due at ALA).
     
     To view this year's slate of candidates, including links to their 
     biographical statements, visit the forum web page at:
     
       http://www.lita.org/ecforum/
     
     A link from this page allows you to submit a potential question to the 
     Nominating Committee. Please submit your question by April 15, 1997. 
     LITA members may also choose to direct their questions to the LITA-L 
     list during the forum.
     
     If you have any questions about the format of the Forum, please 
     contact Nancy Roderer, LITA Nominating Committee chair, at: 
       nancy.roderer@yale.edu
     Comments about the forum webpages should be sent to Kate Wakefield, 
     LITA Board member:  wake@wln.com
     
     We look forward to your participation in this first-ever LITA 
     Electronic Candidates Forum. Comments about the forum will be gathered 
     at its close, to determine whether to make this an annual event.  KW
     
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      Kate Wakefield, Network Svcs. Manager
     WLN  PO Box 3888  Lacey, WA  98509-3888 
     800-DIAL-WLN  or  360-923-4065 (direct) 
        wake@wln.com  or  vraptor@wln.com
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