NCSLA Joint Board Meeting

August 11, 2005

National Humanities Center, RTP, NC

In attendance:

Eliza Robertson – Chapter President

Deborah Balsamo – President-Elect

Bonnie Toenniessen – Treasurer

Diane Lamb – Secretary

Erin Knight – Past President

Sperry Krueger – Past Past President

Sandra Chambers – Third year director

Tamika Barnes – Second year director

Betty Jo Hibberd – First year director

Committee Chairs:

Rebecca Vargha – Archivist. NC representative to SARC III, SLA President-elect

Susan Forbes – Career Guidance / Employment

LaTasha Martin – Charlotte Group Liaison

Cindy McCracken – Communications Team

Barb LeBlanc – Discussion List Owner

Mike Crumpton – Diversity

Terry Hill – Membership

David Sullivan – Public Relations

April Errickson – Strategic Planning

Mike Crumpton – Student Relations

12:00: Lunch and introductions

Eliza Robertson – President

• NC Chapter’s 40 the anniversary in 2006
• SLA bylaws changes: (a) Starting 2007, governance year will align with fiscal year (Jan.). Elected officers to hold office for 18 months to facilitate this alignment. (b) Electronic voting by members.
• Click University (http://www.sla.org/content/learn/clicku.cfm)
• Thanks to Erin for great organization and transition
• Reminds everyone to sign Leadership Code of Responsibility

Debbie Balsamo – President-Elect

• Program planning: the first fall meeting will be the SARC III conference in Williamsburg. Others in planning stages.

Susan Forbes -- Career guidance and employment

Bonnie Toenniessen – Treasurer

• Cash flow report 1/1/2005 through 8/10/2005: overall total -$64.16
• 2005 NCSLA Balance Sheet (Jan – Jul) as of 8/10/2005: Total Equity: $8,167.75

Tamika Barnes – Second year director

• New job at N.C. A&T
• Virtual seminars will continue; the next one will be to purchase Blogs replay and make it available to the membership.

Sandra Chambers – Third year director

• Eliza has asked Sandra and April Errickson, chair of the re-instituted Strategic Planning Committee, to create and administer a member survey based on the one given in 1993. It will cover demographics, meeting preferences, and the impact of new developments in librarianship and information technology on our membership.

Rebecca Vargha – Archivist, SARC III, SLA

• Archives in order and ready for inspection
• SARC III has 21 exhibitors, room for more
• SLA: September 7 Executive Board meeting

Cindy McCracken – Communications Team

• Reminds everyone to send member news, conference info, employment changes, suggestions for member profiles
• Eliza commends Cindy for the first (August 2005) issue of Communicates and Teresa Leonard on the Web site update.
• Discussed creating a quarterly Web-based Bulletin compiled from the monthly Communicates.
• Deadline for items to be included in the first-of-the-month Communicates is the 3^rd week of the previous month

Barb LeBlanc – Discussion List Owner

• Might be problems with posted messages not seen if SLA’s servers are down; contact Barb with these problems
• Eliza suggests comparing list members with NCSLA membership since many subscribe to the list who aren’t NCSLA members.

Sperry Krueger – Past Past President

• Will be in charge of nominations for next slate of officers

• Has created database of attendance at past meetings

LaTasha Martin – Charlotte Group Liaison

• Asks for suggestions on getting groups together
• Sperry suggests having a Chapter push for twice yearly neighborhood meetings.

Mike Crumpton – Diversity and Student Relations

• Is considering a Career fair aimed at students, utilizing students
• Is considering offering Interview practice sessions
• Will Continue “Buddies” at Chapter meetings

Terry Hill – Membership

• Plans to work with Mike to encourage student involvement and recruitment
• Plans to look at list-serv for non members and recruitment

David Sullivan – Public Relations

• Discusses internal / external advertisement
• Opportunities include SARC III, NC Library Association, Sep 21-23 Winston-Salem - Chapter table
• Erin suggests NC SLA poster
• Betty Jo has draft brochure she will share

Erin Knight

• Thanks everyone for condolences and plant on the death of her mother.
• New job responsibilities at CIIT

2:15: Meeting adjourned.