DC/SLA Board Meeting Minutes November 16, 2004
Estelle Alexander Get Out The Vote
Lorraine Bell Hospitality
Anne Caputo Past Past President, Election Nominations/External Relations Advisor
Erin Clougherty Treasurer
Susan Fifer Canby Immediate Past President, Elections Committee Member
Judy Grossberg Archives
Georgeann Higgins Recording Secretary
Anne Marie Houppert Joint Spring Workshop
Sheila Jackson Government Relations, Chapter Calendar
Gail Kouril Director, Fundraising/Strategic Plan
Shirley Loo Vice-President/President-Elect
Victor Monti Military Librarians
Suzanne Pilsk Cataloging Liaison
Kenlee Ray Community Relations/Fundraising
Sheryl Rosenthal (SR) President
Mary Talley Employment
Alphonse Vinh Director, Students/YP/Membership
Michael White Corresponding Secretary
CALL TO ORDER
Sheryl Rosenthal opened the meeting at 6:04 p.m.
Sheryl Rosenthal President
Scholarship Policies: SR has contacted other chapters regarding policies concerning scholarships and awards, specifically multiple scholarship awards to individuals. She noted that some chapters ask for receipts from scholarship recipients. All of the award deadlines have been extended to January 6, 2005.
SLA Member Directory: SLA HQ has received requests to open up the membership directory to non-members. SLA HQ will not open the directory.
Chapter Notes: There will be a combined Dec/Jan holiday issue of Chapter Notes. The deadline for submissions is December 13. See Barbara Ferry for more info.
Shirley Loo Vice President
Preliminary dates for the 2005 virtual seminars; there will be 2 seminars per month. The first two in 2005 will be on content management (Howard McQueen) and competitive intelligence.
Supreme Court Luncheon: The speaker and luncheon at the Supreme Court was well attended. About 40 people, including 10 SLA members were present. Twenty-five paid by PayPal, the highest percentage of attendees paying via PayPal to date.
The topic was digital library collections for children.
1957 Movie Desk Set: Shirley met a retired librarian who lives in DC and was the model for the character of Bunny Watson in the 1957 movie Desk Set starring Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.
Alphonse Vinh notes: Eileen Deegan
Electronic Washington Library Directory: Theres a new online edition of Sheehys reference guide. This is the 1st online edition. It will no longer be published in print. The editor, a librarian at Swarthmore, is willing to come to DC to talk about this new edition.
SL suggested that there might be some lessons we can apply to the Washington Library Directory.
Lorraine Bell Hospitality, Holiday Party
The holiday party is scheduled for December 6 at the University Club in downtown Washington.
11 people have responded so far (Lorraine Bell). The university has offered use (for a $100 fee) of an upright piano. Several DC/SLA members have expressed an interest in performing holiday music. Shirleys question: Can we rent the piano and include music in for the party? Alphonse volunteered to pay the piano fee.
Action item: Michael White will send out e-mail announcements.
Erin Clougherty Treasurer
Erin distributed the latest spreadsheet showing current accounts as of Nov. 15
DCSLA refunded one registration for the Oct. 6 virtual seminar.
DCSLA also paid for the Vote buttons designed by Estelle Alexander and Michael White.
Alphonse Vinh Director (Students, Membership, Young Professionals)
Chapter membership through October is 1,011, according to the latest report from SLA HQ. This is an increase of about 20 memberships since Sept., but it isnt clear what time period was covered in this report. SLA HQ is still not disclosing how this information is generated. This is a problem for us because we cant easily identify new members or memberships that have expired.
Board needs to concentrate on keeping membership
Action item: AV will distribute names of new members to Board members, who will then call/email them and tell them about DCSLA
UMD student chapter is active but CUA chapter needs revitalizing, and he would like to do a program with them
The YPs have scheduled a happy hour and CUA and UMD are invited
SR noted that at the open house, she was complimented on the activity of the YP
Many students are interested in mentoring program
AV is looking into recruiting undergraduate students
SR suggested inviting student leaders to DCSLA Board meetings
Gail Kouril, Fundraising/Strategic Plan Director
First strategic planning committee meeting is November 30
A new member from STGN said her company might be interested in sponsoring DCSLA events
Presidents
SFC and AC are having a working lunch next week, when they will develop a slate for 2005 elections
SLA Funding model taskforce, of which AC is a member, is meeting next week (DC is #3 in fundraising, behind NYC and Philadelphia)
Anne Marie Houppert Joint Spring Workshop
Date: 4/15/05 (Friday); Topic: Taxonomies and the Semantic Web; Location: Mumford Room at Library of Congress
DCSLA committee members are Laura Jerpe, Bill Tousling, Carla Evans, Anna Bolan, Eileen Rourke
Committee is looking for dynamic speakers, especially from K-12 libraries
Estelle Alexander and Michael White, Get Out The Vote
Distributed GOTV buttons
They need a calendar of election dates, would like to electioneer in Chapter Notes
They are going to ask SLA how much electioneering is allowed, as they want to use the listserv, put the button on the website, create pamphlets for distribution, and add election tag line to DCSLA listserv messages
Action item: SR is going to find out the written and unwritten policies about electioneering
Susan Fifer Canby Community of Practice
Work has begun on both DCSLA and YP CoPs
SR notes: Marilyn Bromley
No report
SR notes: Cassandra Shieh
No report
Kenlee Ray, International Relations
They shipped 12 boxes of SLA materials to Zimbabwe, Croatia, and Cuba
The Dean of Cubas library school asked for technology management books. InfoToday offered to sell their books for 40% off and free shipping
Motion made:
SFC: move to set aside up to $350 to pay for:
Annual Review of Information Science & Technology (4 volume set)
Evaluating Networked Information Services by McClure & Bertot
Information Management for the Intelligent Organization 3rd ed. By Chun Wei Choo
Information Representation and Retrieval in the Digital Age by Heting Chu
GK seconded, motion passed
Victor Monti Military Librarians
Submarine event was well attended
January event: Walter Reed Medical Center Library
New email: victor@monti.org
Mary Talley Employment
Is keeping a list of volunteer opportunities
Michael White Corresponding Secretary
Directory is updated, as is website
Anne Caputo Past, Past President
Attended October SLA Board meeting. They are considering (1) making the fiscal and election year coincide; (2) increasing dues, but also implementing a tiered dues structure
German Marshall Fund bought old SLA building and the new SLA headquarters in Alexandria required renovations that were unexpectedly expensive
NEW BUSINESS
Suzanne Pilsk NISO and SLA
SLA is considering dropping their membership in NISO. They currently pay approximately $7500 a year for membership. Membership dues are negotiable.
Membership gives SLA members a voice in the process of making standards
Military Librarians group is endorsing SLA staying in NISO
AC: Finance Committee of SLA recommended dropping the NISO membership
Motion made:
SFC: move that DCSLA endorse notion that SLA should be a voting member of NISO
SL seconded, motion passed
Action item: Suzanne will produce a one-page FAQ on what NISO is, why SLA should belong, why standards are important to libraries, etc., noting that DCSLA Board endorses membership
SL moved to end meeting, EC 2nded, motion passed
Meeting adjourned at 7:35pm
Next Board meeting: 5:45, December 6 (Monday) at University Club in Franklin Room
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