[evergreen-outreach] Evergreen at ALA Annual Conference

[Rogan Hamby]

No objection. The turn around it tight IMO but I'm fine with working on
it.  My bandwidth has been completely allocated lately but is starting to
loosen up a little. I intended to look at the email more closely Friday and
respond but I didn't have an opportunity.

On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 11:39 AM Frasur, Ruth via evergreen-outreach <
evergreen-outreach at list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote:

> I do not have an objection to this.
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> Ruth Frasur Davis (she/they)
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> Coordinator
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> *Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium*
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> *Evergreen Community Development Initiative*
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> Indiana State Library
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> 140 N. Senate Ave.
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> Indianapolis, IN 46204
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> (317) 232-3691
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> *From:* evergreen-outreach <
> evergreen-outreach-bounces at list.evergreen-ils.org> *On Behalf Of *Lussier,
> Kathy via evergreen-outreach
> *Sent:* Monday, February 12, 2024 11:34 AM
> *To:* Evergreen Outreach Committee <
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> *Subject:* Re: [evergreen-outreach] Evergreen at ALA Annual Conference
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> Hi all,
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> Now that it is Monday, I just wanted to check in to see if there are any
> objections from the committee for me to put out an email to the general
> mailing list saying that I am working with Outreach on this? If we  move
> forward with this project, I would like to put a message out today because
> I only have a few days to submit the application.
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> Thank you,
> Kathy
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> Kathy Lussier
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> Executive Director
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> NOBLE: North of Boston Library Exchange
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> Danvers, MA
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> On Fri, Feb 9, 2024 at 8:21 AM Lussier, Kathy <klussier at noblenet.org>
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> Good morning Outreach Committee!
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> For many years, the Evergreen Outreach Committee organized meetups and
> programs at the ALA MidWinter meeting and Annual Conference to try to raise
> the visibility of the project to the larger library community. I would like
> to suggest that we consider sponsoring a program again for this year's
> conference in San Diego. The deadline to submit a meeting room request is a
> week from today, so if we were to proceed, we would need to figure out a
> few details and get Board approval over the next week. Fortunately, since
> the Board is meeting Thursday, Outreach could bring the request for funding
> in plenty of time to get the request submitted.
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> Since there are so many new community members on the Outreach Committee,
> I'll provide some background. When the Outreach Committee was first formed
> on a trial basis back in the spring of 2015, its primary charge was to
> increase the visibility of Evergreen in the larger library community.
> Establishing a presence at library conferences was a critical component of
> the charge. In May, 2017, the charge was expanded to incorporate more
> internal-facing activities in the committee's area of responsibility.
> References to conference activities were removed from the charge, but the
> committee continued to host Evergreen programs at ALA through the 2019
> annual conference. I don't need to explain what happened in 2020 to curtail
> those activities.
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> The cost of booking a meeting room these days is $225. I'm looking into
> the cost of a/v equipment right now. I know it's pricey, but the programs
> also tend to be better when we can project to a screen.
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> A compiled a list of previous ALA activities on the wiki -
> https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=outreach:ala
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> A few questions for the group:
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>    - Would the committee support this effort?
>    - Would you be okay with me organizing it even though I am not an
>    official member?
>    - Would anyone from Outreach be interested in helping?
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> You don't need to attend ALA to help with plans for the program, but it
> helps to include people who will be available to help with the
> presentations. I know Debbie Luchenbill has been involved in planning
> during past years. I also have a couple of people in mind who I will
> directly invite, and I can also put a call out to the general list.
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> Given the deadline, I'm hoping people are around to give feedback today so
> that I can put a call out to the general list on Monday. We need to have a
> solid idea of what we're doing at the time we request the room so that we
> can have a proper setup. Program descriptions can be updated later in the
> process, if I remember correctly, but they may not make it into the printed
> program (if they still have one.)
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> Let me know if you have any questions!
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> Kathy
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> Kathy Lussier
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> Executive Director
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> NOBLE: North of Boston Library Exchange
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> Danvers, MA
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