For the first time and at member request, ITTS will be holding training sessions at the 2008 Midwinter Meeting. The sessions will be taught by Louise Gruenberg, ALA's trainer, over a period of several days in order to provide as many options as possible. From Louise:

"I will be at Midwinter teaching Collage classes and providing help sessions in Collage, MediaWiki and Online Communities from January 11 through the morning of January 16.

Interested member-volunteers can register using the link below, and should do so ASAP, as sessions will be filled on a first come, first served basis. Those whose registrations are accepted will receive confirmation emails from me.

Please note that members must bring their own wireless-ready notebook computers to class.

If you are an ALA staff liaison, please forward this email with the registration link below to members.

http://creator.zoho.com/itts/2008-midwinter-registration

Please note that we used Zoho Creator for the registration form because we needed something fast, so this part is a bit of an experiment. It's not ideal, as we can't make the form as usable as we'd like, but so far it seems to be working well. The biggest issue is that upon submission of your information, the "success" message flashes too quickly, so check your email for a confirmation before resubmitting your data. If you encounter any problems with the Zoho-based form, please let us know.

I can't believe Midwinter is already here - see you soon.