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Ruth-
I understand. That
could be great news about the buyout!?
If that's something you
want I will be keeping my fingers crossed for you...
At any rate, you
definitely don't want to sign on for anything new or involved until you have
clarity there.
Ken Winter, MLIS
Director of
Library and Information Services
VDOT Research Library
530 Edgemont Road,
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Ph: (434) 293-1959 FAX: (434) 293-4196
Email:
Ken.Winter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Intranet: http://rclibrary
Ken,
Great news about the support of a graphic designer. I'm too far
behind to be able to help on the projects you mentioned, sorry.
Also, both me and my other librarian got buyout offers last week. We
both plan to apply, but we have to accepted. They can accept both, one, or
neither. Aug. 5 is deadline to apply and we will be notified by Aug.
11. I don't feel I should make any commitments until this is resolved.
>>> "Winter, Kenneth A." <Ken.Winter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
6/24/2008 3:35 PM >>>
Dear ETKN
Members-
I have great news about
some breaking events that will have a high payoff for us.
I have been asked to
represent our TKN at the upcoming AASHTO Research Advisory meeting in Portland
Maine on July 14-17. I will be there in part to attend the conference but
also to sit in as a member of an official RAC Task Group on the development of
TKNs. This is an unprecedented level of visibility for TKN libraries and
I will be joined by many influential library supporters and joining
with members of the Western and Midwestern TKNs in this project.
Now for the
breaking news part...
ETKN has been invited
to provide marketing materials for a display area that will be set up by
the pooled fund for library connectivity. We knew we'd need a brochure,
logo, website, etc. sooner or later. Turns out it is sooner!
Eileen Gallagher, ETKN
member from DVRPC (online at: http://www.dvrpc.org/), and I had discussed
things they might do to help ETKN several weeks ago, and possible graphics
support was one thing. So the first thing I did was pick up the phone and
contact Eileen. It took some work, but through a very gracious effort to
represent the value of ETKN to her management, Eileen has amazed me
by securing the services of a graphic artist there, who is sketching out
some logo ideas even as I write this.
I apologize for not running
this by you first, time was of the essence. I gave her several excellent
examples of logos of other library consortia and a few color ideas and general
concepts and she is on it!
If you have a chance,
please join me in thanking Eileen for this amazing work she is doing!
I believe we have all the
verbiage and some great design ideas for a great little brochure (we have
many, many examples to emulate...) but we need a volunteer to help put that
together. So my first question is:
1. Can any of you take on a
brochure project with a 2-week turnaround time? It doesn't have to be
YOU doing the work...in fact, if you have a graphic designer who can
help, that may be the best way to go. Then again, you all have many
talents, so maybe that would be something someone could volunteer to do?
Any volunteers????????
2. We are in the process of
setting up a web site at http://www.etkn.org I need a
webmaster (ideally someone who has developed or maintained web pages before) and
who has the time and the software to do this. Again, we have most all of
the copy that would go there...we just need someone to be in charge and to see
the design through. It needs to be functional but not perfect by July
13. Any volunteers?????
For both of these items, we
need to get something done to meet the July 13 deadline. We can continue
to use the brochure or take more time to revise it and make it better
later. The
web site will be a work we're always revising.
Thanks and again, I am
sorry for such short notice!
Ken Winter, MLIS
Director of
Library and Information Services
VDOT Research Library
530 Edgemont Road,
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Ph: (434) 293-1959 FAX: (434) 293-4196
Email:
Ken.Winter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Intranet: http://rclibrary
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