InsideOLITA

For the past two and half years, I have been a Councillor for OLITA, the Ontario Library Information and Technology Association. I love it, and hope this article will encourage some of you to take a similar plunge into active involvement in one of our library associations.

OLITA is the youngest division of the Ontario Library Association, born in the early 1990’s into a family of four older siblings: the Ontario Public Library Association, Ontario School Libraries Association, Ontario College and University Libraries Association, and Ontario Library Trustees Association. OLITA’s parents felt the need for a division which crossed workplace boundaries, made a special appeal to library technicians, and focused library world attention on how and why to apply emerging technologies in information management organizations. So, after several wild nights of partying, something special happened, and a few months later, OLITA was born.

In 2004, the extended family of OLITA Councillors who have “parented” the division over the past 15 years were asked: If OLITA didn’t exist today, would you still create it? All enthusiastically said yes. So the kid stays.

I felt pretty weird running for election back in Fall 2003. Although I have learned to love technology - often more for what it could do than what it actually does – I felt pretty ignorant compared to people who present SuperConference and Education Institute sessions. I still do. But I figure there’s a place for people like me who try to translate what the experts/geeks say into English the rest of us can understand. And I learn so much from hearing other people talk about their projects, and the new ideas they want to try.

OLITA gets its work done by assigning councilors portfolios. Mine is to represent OLITA on the Libraries Advance Ontario Task Force. This turned out to be tons of fun. I got to meet and work with 9 other people from across all OLA divisions, plus the amazing Jefferson Gilbert and Larry Moore from the OLA office, developing a radio ad campaign to promote public libraries. We piloted this piloted this in Windsor-Essex last Ontario Public Library Week.

All councillors brainstorm together to come up with themes for the SuperConference techie stream, and vet session proposals to make sure no critical topics get left out. I love hearing from others about who’s the hottest conference speaker and what the hottest topics are. Talk about cutting edge! With two Councillors from university libraries, four from big city public libraries, a software vendor, and me, the country cousin who coincidentally belongs to the coolest library consortium in the province – well, we go to a lot of conferences. I love the mashup.

The other cool part for me has been meeting at the OLA office and seeing how OLA works. The short answer is: really hard. The space is crowded, everyone multi-tasks like crazy, there’s always a million things going on, but people really focus and an amazing amount gets done. When Larry finally joins our meetings, he is 100% there for us, and shares all kind of information that helps us see the big picture. All very impressive.

Kae Elgie
Manager, Information Services
Region of Waterloo Library

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