For some time, I've been wanting a way to communicate quick-and-dirty notes and comments on my activities as the ALA Rep to the JSC. Last Friday, we had a session on creating blogs on the Penn State webspace and voila! here is my new blog.
As the home page says, I plan to use this blog primarily to send notes and comments to CC:DA and other interested parties. I have enabled comments and set the system to accept them automatically. However, at this time (at least), I am not interested in using this as another discussion forum. Feel free to use it as you wish, talk to each other, but don't expect me to participate.
The first entries -- which I hope to start shortly -- will be related to my work on the ALA response to the RDA full draft. I'm going to be very busy compiling the response, and I want to capture and report to you some of the decisions I am making as I go through the CC:DA comments. I really can't afford to be distracted by comments, so I probably won't be paying much attention to them. If you think I have made a really really bad mistake, please send an email to me directly or the the CC:DA discussion list.
One further note: I have developed the habit of compiling ALA responses beginning at the end and working slowly backwards to the beginning -- if nothing else, this makes sure that I know what all the general issues are before I try to write that part of the response. So the first entry that you will see will deal with the Glossary. I hope to have finished editing that section and post my blog message sometime today.
I hope that you find these notes useful.
John
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