As I type this, and probably as you read this, the Public Libraries Summit is underway!

It has been a very exciting year for the Public Libraries Advisory Committee (PLAC). My time on the committee beginning with the ‘Library Stars’ event at last year’s biennial conference, ongoing evaluation of ALIA policies, submissions to government organisations, the library ambassadors program, the little book of public libraries and, of course, now the summit.

Regular updates from the summit are being tweeted by @ALIANational with the keyword #Summit09 and include summaries of who is saying what, photographs and more information about the summit.

I think now is the time to say ‘Thank you’ to my colleagues on PLAC who have worked very hard getting these projects underway. You may think that being on an ALIA Committee is all consuming – but it’s not! We all hold down full-time positions outside of PLAC and have the extremely satisfying benefit of seeing the results of our efforts being well supported by ALIA members and interested stakeholders.

Kathryn Cass

ALIA Public Libraries Advisory Committee Member

P.S. Don’t forget to follow what’s happening at the summit via Twitter at http://twitter.com/ALIANational