Vote on Newsletter names!  Submissions are:

· Wildcat Gazette
· Cats Do Play ·  Virtuality
·The Distant Echo
· Echo
·The Arizona Echo
·Student Stances
·The Podium
·Our Soapbox
·Shhhh, Please!
·The New Librarian
·New Librarian Newsletter
·Librarianzette
· Academic Alert
·Academic Agent

Email your vote to me by the end of the month, so we’ll have a title for the April issue.

Questions, Concerns, and Ideas from Fellow Distance Students

·          Do you ever wish you could be present for some of the terrific Brown Bag meetings scheduled throughout the semester?  Would you be interested in participating in an online Brown Bag, through a message board or chat format?  If you have expertise in this area, or are interested in participating, please email Lori at the address above.

·          About social events in the Phoenix area:  Getting together in Phoenix.  Needs to be centrally located and not always in the East Valley.  There is life on the west side J  I personally would rather meet at a park or even have a group hike.  I probably won’t come if it meets in a bar.

·          Concern regarding being a distance student.  I think that it is totally ridiculous that on-campus students can order their books online but distance students cannot—we have to call on the phone AND they call us “correspondent students.”  The first time I said “distance student” they didn’t know what I meant.  Also, they need to make the books available for classes in the bookstore when they have them so distance students who are on campus for other reasons can go ahead and get the books.  This past winter session some of us wanted to buy the books for the spring semester and although some books were in, we were told that, as distance students, we had to wait until January 11^th to get our books.

·          Phoenix classes.  I would like to see more classes held in the Phoenix area.

I will figure out the appropriate recipient at the bookstore, and email them a copy of our newsletter.  For the other items—send in your responses, your advice, your suggestions.  A hike sounds great—where?  Can we set it up for a morning in early April, maybe with a potluck breakfast?  I need your input.

March 21^st Team Organizational Workshop

Shelley Phipps will be presenting a team organizational workshop on Thursday, March 21^st, at 6:00pm.  Is anyone interested in driving out from the Phoenix area as a group?  Overnight or Thursday return?  Email Lori at the above address so I can coordinate—maybe we can combine it with a quick dinner in Tucson before the meeting.

Question:  Do you want the newsletter to list events that have been sent out over the listserve, like the Brown Bag series schedule, or upcoming conferences (like the open forum for the library community at Phoenix Museum of History on March 13^th from 9:00am – noon)?  I don’t know whether to repeat this information or not—I appreciate your input.