PLA Service Responses Discussion Forum @ Midwinter

The discussion just ended, and boy, was it enthusiastic and involved. June Garcia and Sandra Nelson ran the session like a well-oiled machine, working through all 17 service responses in 2 hours, which is, in my mind, very impressive.

I want to say that there were 51 people in this room (one attendee was pleasantly shocked by the attendance), and the comments were concise, relevant, and really aimed at further improving the service response drafts as opposed to debating them ad nauseum.  PLA is just chock full o’ movers and shakers.

The next step is to make a few tweaks to the current drafts, post some of the comments from this discussion to the blog for further feedback and discussion hopefully by the end of the week or so, and perhaps even a new service response for review.  The projected date for completion of the service responses is March 1, 2007, and the plan is to have the entire set of service responses available for purchase as a booklet through PLA starting April 15.

Many thanks to all of the attendees of the session at ALA Midwinter, and to the readers who have contributed thus far, and will continue the discussion!