Thank you and mea culpa!

I want to again thank everyone whose contributions and attendance helped make this year’s GOLD/GALILEO Users Group Conference another resounding success.

Inadvertently — and much to my chagrin — one key supporter and friend did not receive the credit due her in our conference packet materials. The name of Teresa Pacheco, Electronic Resources Librarian at Gainesville State College, was not included on the 2010 GOLD/GALILEO Users Group Advisory Committee List nor on a similar listing in the 2010 GOLD Annual Report. Below you will find links to the corrected master copies of these documents.

GOLD Update Report_GGAUGC10_Draft

Packet Materials_GGAUGC10_Committee Members

I deeply regret this oversight, and wanted to make you all aware of Teresa’s standing as a valued and trusted member of this committee. In fact, she was the first member to step up and author a 2010 conference musing for this blog!

“To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool” – Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Philippicoe (XII, 2)

To the future GOLD and GALILEO! And, to Teresa, mea maxima culpa!

–Toni Z.

Toni Zimmerman
Director, Resource Sharing & Interlibrary Cooperation
Georgia Public Library Service
A Unit of the BOR Univ System of GA
1800 Century Place, Suite 150
Atlanta, GA 30345-4304
P(404)235.7129
F(404)235.7201
tzimmerman@georgialibraries.org
www.georgialibraries.org

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Even the Smallest Interchange Can Illuminate a Resource Exchange!

Journal entry from a GOLD/GALILEO Users Group Advisory Committee Representative – Conference Musings – On behalf of the GOLD/GALILEO Conference Resource Exchange – August 3, 2010 – Gretchen M. Smith, Collection Development Librarian, James Earl Carter Library, Georgia Southwestern State University, Americus, GA

TIME!

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. — Peter Drucker

As part of the GOLD/GALILEO Users Group Conference, the annual Resource Exchange helps us all shine on – like the moon, the stars, and the sun.

Everyone today is busy, busy, busy. Especially in libraries, it is important to save time when information is needed. Now you can shine as brightly as anything in the heavens by taking advantage of our network of resources to help make your time more productive. Help others do the same by sharing what you have discovered/created/uncovered, too.

Ralph Waldo Emerson says our best thoughts come from others.  Since childhood we were taught to share. So share with your colleagues from all around the state what has worked in your libraries! If you have a presentation, report, profile, wiki, webpage or any other information you think might be enjoyed or used by others — brag about it!  Bring it to the GOLD/GALILEO Conference and make it a part of the Resource Exchange.

If your project is on paper, bring 10-20 copies with you to the conference, and we’ll have a table available for sharing. If it is an electronic or Web-based project, just write a quick (one page or less) synopsis and bring copies of that! (Just be sure to include the URL.)

If you are too busy, busy, busy and you don’t even have time for that 🙂 just e-mail the electronic version to me, and I will make it available online after the conference!

Get all the info you need in one (sun)spot – that’s it, that’s all:
http://georgialibraries.org/ggugc2010/resource_exchange.php

See you in Athens on August 13th — and bring your sunglasses!

Gretchen M. Smith
Collection Development Librarian
James Earl Carter Library
Georgia Southwestern State University
gsmith@gsw.edu
(229) 931-2789

Toni Zimmerman
Director, Resource Sharing & Interlibrary Cooperation
Georgia Public Library Service
A Unit of the BOR Univ System of GA
1800 Century Place, Suite 150
Atlanta, GA 30345-4304
P(404)235.7129
F(404)235.7201
tzimmerman@georgialibraries.org
www.georgialibraries.org

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