President's Report - Nola Sterling
May 21, 2001

The year 2000-2001 was an odyssey, not one of space, but of discovery that included interesting meetings, networking and fun with Chapter members, and a new online communications system.

Many people worked hard this year to promote Chapter programs and to support its infrastructure-where the work gets done and done so well that it is sometimes never noticed. Without this support, the best programs and ideas-virtual and otherwise-would never materialize. Thanks to all the Committee Chairs who contribute their time, energy, and creativity.

My last meeting this year was at Microsoft, where we had 65 people in attendance to hear Bill Hill, developer of ClearType, discuss this new technology and its applications. Microsoft generously donated the proceeds of the event ($550) to our chapter. My thanks to Mary Lee Kennedy, for the support of her staff and the contribution; Roxanna Frost, for introducing me to Mr.Hill; and to Linda Shaw, Ana Krokos, and Christine Shannon, for managing the logistics.

Our Chapter lost members last year. As you know, there are many associations competing for our members. SLA is well-aware of this, and I believe their new focus and initiatives to deal with critical issues facing members will make SLA stronger in the coming years. Because of the decrease in membership from 367 at the end of 1999 to 344 at the end of 2000, Chapter dues allotment for 2001 dropped about 6% from $4,404 in 2000 to $4,128 in 2001. Meeting income and sponsorship generated $6,902 in revenue, about a 13% drop from 1999. Interface advertising brought in $642 representing a 14% increase over the previous year. 

A major accomplishment this year was to redesign the format and content of the Chapter's web site. This included leaving the printed bulletin, Interface, behind and moving it to its new online home. Sue Eipert, web master, managed, organized, and implemented the redesign; Stephanie Rawlins, Bulletin Editor, orchestrated the many fine articles, reports, and musings of chapter members. They made the new site an exciting, dynamic, interesting place to go, as well as a much more informative one. Kudos to you! 

We combined two chairs this year: business manager and vendor relations. Frances DeMarco took this on again, and, once more, brought in enough money to support our programs: $7300. Excellent work. Our thanks as well to the Oregon and Western Canada chapters for their generous support of the April regional meeting.

The Student Relations Chair, Dana Bostrom, along with Kim Emmons and SLA Student President Pam Green, have done an outstanding job with students. Student Night, Brown Bag presentations, the special library tours, and the afternoon student meeting with SLA President Donna Scheeder, have all been well attended and provided great opportunities for students and SLA members to get together and discuss critical issues. 

Last year, on behalf of our Chapter, I invited Donna Scheeder, SLA President, to come to Seattle to speak and our invitation was accepted. She spoke at our April regional meeting and was inspirational, witty, and pragmatic. 

The Executive Board and Chairs met four times this year. Discussions included the revamping of the web site; the April regional conference; and other budget and Chapter business. Minutes of our meetings can be found on the web site at http://www.sla.org/chapter/cpnw/reports.htm.

Thanks to the Executive Board: Dawn Duddleson kept our meetings and votes in perfect order; Corey Murata made sure we could afford to do what we wanted (and has just been promoted to Associate Librarian in the UW Libraries); Jean Sansobrino provided her expertise and wisdom; Chris Mulready had great ideas and chaired the April meeting; and Toni Emerson was there with ongoing support and advice, and as Grants and Awards Chair. My thanks to each of you.

I would also like to thank Lyn Sauter and Sophia Smith for their humor, perspective and SLA savvy. 

My hope for the future is that we continue to look forward, be creative, and embrace the innovations and changes in our profession. I once heard that "May you live in interesting times" is a curse but I think it's a blessing to be presented with challenges that bring us to synergy and the "third alternative." We are all better for having known one another.

I enjoyed this year tremendously. You are a generous group of people and I am honored to have served you. Thank you once again for providing me with this wonderful opportunity for personal and professional growth. 

For the complete 2000-2001 Annual Report, please go to the Pacific Northwest Chapter web site at http://www.sla.org/chapter/cpnw/reports.htm. 

President-elect -- Chris Mulready

In my role as President-Elect/Program Chair, I first planned the Holiday Event, which was held at my home in Seattle on December 8th. The event was well attended, and the conversation was lively, centering on the new Simplification initiative from SLA Headquarters. Dan Trefethen hosted a feedback session where members were asked to bring the answer to the question, "If I could change SLA, I would...". Dan compiled the responses and presented them to the Simplification Committee meeting at the Mid-Winter conference in Savannah, GA. One member remarked that the event was "The nicest Holiday gathering I've ever been to." It was a wonderful evening of Holiday Cheer.

The next event was Student Night in February. The event was held at the Husky Union Building on the University of Washington campus. I was impressed by the turnout, and by the preparations which were handled by Dana Bostrom, Pam Green, and others. I was a little dismayed that there were only two Chapter Board members in attendance; it would have been nicer to have more of a presence at this pivotal event. The presentations were lively, as was the question and answer period. The resume review went well, and the event was a great success.

In April, the Chapter, along with the Western Canada and Oregon Chapter's, held a Joint Chapter Professional Development Day in downtown Seattle. This event consumed the majority of my time as Program Chair. Organizing the event began in October, and continued at a frenzied pace until the day before the event, when most of the members of the Chapter Board dined with Donna Scheeder, the current SLA President. The attendance was 86 members (18 from the Western Canada!) and 8 vendors set up tables to show off their latest wares. The lunch was fantastic, and the program was very informative.

Preparations are underway now for the Annual Meeting to be held at the Center for Urban Horticulture on May 21, 2001. We will have Fran Fisher, the President and CEO of Living Your Vision Enterprises, speak to the membership on "Living Your Vision". Also, we'll be electing our new officers, giving Career Achievement awards, and networking with our fellow Chapter members.

I'm looking forward to my term as President next year. My goal is to strengthen our relationship with the Student SLA Chapter, and to involve the student members in every aspect of Chapter business.

Chapter Treasurer's Report - Corey Murata

The Chapter's net assets total $18,941 as of March 31, 2001, up about 6% from the same time last year. Much of this increase can be attributed to advance vendor sponsorship payments for the 21 April 2001 Professional Development Day. The Chapter's audited 2000 Annual Financial Statement showed a year end closing balance of $8,822.

Our SLA Chapter dues allotment for 2001 dropped about 6% from $4,404 in 2000 to $4,128 in 2001 due to a commensurate drop in membership from 367 at the end of 1999 to 344 at the end of 2000. Meeting income and sponsorship generated $6,902 in revenue, about a 13% drop from 1999. Interface advertising brought in $642 representing a 14% increase over the previous year.

Major expenses for 2000, $7422; production of the Interface, $623; postage and supply, $566; gifts and awards, $485; and travel, $2832. Travel allowances were provided for Toni Emerson for attendance at the 2000 SLA Winter Meeting in St. Louis ($481), to Nola Sterling for attendance at the 2000 SLA Winter Meeting ($405) and the 2000 SLA Annual Conference in Philadelphia ($457), to Corey Murata for attendance at the 2000 Annual Conference ($500), and to Christopher Mulready for attendance at the 2000 Annual Conference ($500) and the 2001 SLA Winter Meeting in Savannah. Other expenses included the Lending Library, $45.

As required by SLA, the Pacific Northwest Chapter operates with a budget on a calendar year basis, and uses Quicken software for the preparation of all financial reports.

Respectfully submitted,
Corey Murata, Treasurer
15 May 2001

Chapter Archives Report -- Jean Pasche
Submitted by Jean Pasche, Chair

Members: Jean Pasche, Chair; Karen Buxton, Jean Johnson

Significant Activities:

1. Recruited two new members - Karen Buxton, Pacific NW National Lab., Richland, WA; Jean Johnson, Seattle, new to Chapter and area, from San Francisco. (JP)

2. Printed entire set of Chapter's web pages for archives, August 2000. (JP) Note: decision of Archivist, Chapter President, and Webmistress not to include the Student Chapter's web pages in our archives. They will make their own decision as to archiving.

3. Printed new Interface issues from web for archives. (KB) Note: with the October 2000 issue, SLA/PNC began distributing its newsletter, Interface, via the web only.

4. Located missing issues of the Chapter's earliest newsletters (3 bound volumes); found at Seattle Public Library, via Betty Tonglao, and turned over to Chapter Archivist. (JJ)

5. Continued weeding non-archival materials from earlier records, with guidance of Association Archivist and SLA Record Retention Guidelines. (JP)

Expenses:
None.

Goals for Next Year:
1. Finish weeding and then archive (to UW) records prior to most recent five years. (carried over from previous year's goals)
2. Completion of labels for photos in 50th Anniversary photo album, with subsequent archiving of album. (carried over from previous year's goals)
3. Write procedures manual for Chapter Archives Committee, including checklist of records to obtain and from which officer/committee.
4. Create simple finding list for archived Membership Directories and newsletters, i.e. which years are found in which boxes; also, note gaps for fill-ins with donations.

STUDENT RELATIONS COMMITTEE REPORT - Dana Bostrom

Committee Members:
Dana Bostrom, co-chair
University of Washington
Software & Copyright Ventures
bostrom@u.washington.edu

Kim Emmons
Washington Research Foundation
kemmons@wrfseattle.org

Additional participants in Student Night: 
Nola Sterling, President, PNWSLA
Federal Home Loan Bank
nsterl@fhlbsea.com

Rayette Wilder, President-elect, ASIS representative
Gonzaga University
wilder@its.gonzaga.edu

Katherine Foster, President, LLOPS
Microsoft
kfoster@microsoft.com

Lisa Oberg, WMLA
University of Washington
Health Sciences Library
lisanne@u.washington.edu

Pam Green, Chair, Student Chapter, PNWSLA
University of Washington
School of Library & Information Science

Betsy Harper, Vice-Chair, Student Chapter, PNWSLA
University of Washington
School of Library & Information Science

Major accomplishments and activities:

Student Night
The Student Relations Committee continued the tradition of Student Night in 2001. Details of the event are listed below:

Date: Friday, February 2, 200
Time: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Place: HUB Room 108, University of Washington
Cost: $12.00 Members, $15.00 Guests, $5.00 Students
Program: 6:00 - 6:30 Registration & Socializing
6:30 - 7:15 Dinner 
7:15 - 7.45 Panel discussion by the Washington State Library Diversity Steering Committee
7:45 - 8:00 Business Meeting/Announcements/Presentation of Student Memberships/Vendor Presentations
8:00 - 9:00 Resume Review
Food: Catered by UW/Wine by Costco
Menu: 
MENU FOR SLA STUDENT NIGHT

Feb. 2, 2001 6:00-9:00 (5:30-9:30 for servers)

Additional Expenses:
Flyers
HUB Room rental
Gifts for presenters

Committee Work:
Kim Emmons, Betsy Harper, Dana Bostrom and Pam Green met periodically to discuss Student Night planning. Most planning was conducted via email. Planning of the meeting was done entirely by the SLA members. The ASIS, LLOPS, and WMLA representatives recruited resume reviewers from their members, contributed gift memberships for the student membership raffle, and some organizations donated funds to assist in holding Student Night.

Rayette Wilder, who is the ASIS President-Elect, and on the Washington State Library Diversity Steering Committee, asked to speak briefly on diversity issues at Student Night. The Committee decided that a panel discussion about such issues would be appropriate for the whole evening. Ms. Wilder made arrangements with the other speakers, and Student Night hosted a panel discussion on diversity issues.

Dana Bostrom created the flyer and had it copied at Kinko's, and distributed e-mail announcements to LLOPS, MLA, ASIS, and SLA. Tracey Anderson managed registration.

Vendor and professional organization support helped to keep costs to those attending the meeting low. Kim Emmons contacted Webforia, who contributed $500 to Student Night. Rayette Wilder and Andrew Grove came up with a $500.00 donation from ASIS. WMLA donated $100. Also, having the Student PNSLA reserve the room allowed us to receive student organization pricing for the room. In addition, the School of Library and Information Science allowed us to charge expenses to their account, with SLA reimbursing the School, which also saved time and money.

The following people were included in those who reviewed resumes:

Recruited by PNWSLA:
Victoria Hodgson, Majiq
Dottie Smith, University of Washington
Christina Byrne, University of Washington
Katherine Kitchen, Microsoft

Recruited by ASIS:
Rayette Wilder, Gonzaga University

Recruited by LLOPS:
Katherine Foster, Microsoft
Mary Whisner, Reference, UW Gallagher Law Library

Recruited by WMLA:
Susan Barnes, University of Washington
Julia Parker, Pathogenesis
Janette Schueller, Batelle
Martha Means, University of Washington

Chapter Discussion about role of Student Relations position
The Student Relations Co-Chairs led a discussion at an SLA Board Meeting on February 1, 2001 to discuss the goals the chapter thought were appropriate for the student relations positions to fulfill. We discussed whether Student Night was a useful mechanism for fostering student interaction with professionals. Overall, the chapter agreed that the Student Relations Chairs should focus on mentoring and encouraging student interaction with professionals. The School of Library and Information Science (becoming the iSchool) is considering changing some of its career focus events, and has added a Ph.D. and B.S. program. The chapter should consider changing its events and activities relating to students to better fit with the current student body. The Student Relations Chairs for 2001-2002 should consider a variety of events and activities to foster more interaction.

Student Chapter Interaction
Throughout the year, the co-chairs met with the student chapter officers to advise them on a number of issues, including:
1. Support of student organized programs
2. Student attendance at local professional events

Other Student Advocacy Activities
The co-chairs also worked with other groups, as appropriate, to support the students interests. Specifically, the co-chairs:
1. Attended UW SLIS Alumni Board meetings and kept them aware of SLA professional and student activities.
2. Met occasionally with Information School personnel, including Mike Eisenberg and Lynnea Erickson, to speak about SLA's interests.

Considerations for Student Relations Committee 2001-2002:

1. Location: Having an event in the HUB or somewhere near campus is seen as a plus in making it easy for students to attend. 

2. Planning for events throughout the year would be easier with a budget. Any professional organization co-sponsors should be encouraged to budget early for any events as well.

3. SLA should consider becoming involved with an iSchool Career Fair or resume review on a more regular basis; students graduate from the school every quarter instead of Student Night.

We recommend not holding Student Night in the same format as it has been done in the past. However, should SLA believe it is still appropriate, we have these recommendations. 

1. Sponsors for Student Night (Professional Organizations): Once again the majority of attendants were from SLA. ASIS and LLOPS both provided funding for the event either through donations. SLA takes care of all the planning for the event. The other organizations have fewer members than SLA, so taking on the same responsibility as SLA is able to do is more difficult. However, the other organizations need to be encouraged to take more responsibility earlier for the event.

2. Sponsors (Vendors): Because of the joint chapter meeting held a few months after Student Night, Kim Emmons, Dana Bostrom and Nola Sterling did a majority of the work to contact potential vendor sponsors. Webforia agreed to sponsor the event. Another $500 would have been helpful.

Membership Committee: Ruth Van Dyke, Chair. 

Membership responsibilities were focused on the following:

Providing membership information to Interface to alert the chapter to new members.

Welcoming new members to the chapter via e-mail and providing them with the URLs to the chapter web site and discussion list. I stopped sending new members the 1999 chapter directory at the beginning of 2001. Often, student new members did not provide an e-mail address.

Reviewing publication of the local chapter directory. Informal discussions by the chapter cabinet determined not to publish a print directory but to use the directory information on the SLA web site. Concerns were expressed about providing a local directory electronically if it could not easily be secured to SLA members only.

As of April 16, 2000, the Pacific Northwest Chapter had 312 paid, registered members. This represents a decrease of 29 members since this time a year ago.

Discussion List Chair -- Dan Trefethen

We communicated with HQ to determine that an old listserv address for the PNW chapter was still being used by some of the members, and worked to make the transition to the new address. HQ continues to have intermittent outages in their listserv system, which occasionally affects our messages. They are working to solve the issues, and meanwhile we try to doublecheck to make sure that our messages have been distributed.

Government Relations Committee 2000-2001 - Jan Schueller

Again the primary function of this committee continues to be serving as
conduit for the dissemination of governmental and legislative information
from the national SLA Government Relations Program, directed by John Crosby,
and other relevant sources such as the American Library Association's ALAWON
alerting service (ALA Washington Online). The ALA program includes
information on issues relevant to public and school libraries as well as
specifically to special librarians. It is a useful complement to the regular
column in Information Outlook, the SLA website, and the SLA Public Policy
Updates sent to the Governmental Relations listsrev.

Vendor Relations/Advertising Chair, Frances DeMarco
Report for 2000-2001

This year the Advertising and Vendor Relations Chair positions were combined. With the help of Susan Eipert, Communications/Web Team member, I came up with a sponsorship/advertising price structure and Sue posted it on the chapter website (see Sponsor Opportunities http://www.sla.org/chapter/cpnw/sponsor_opportunities.htm). Vendors can choose to advertise on our online newsletter, be listed in our sponsors/advertisers directory, and/or sponsor events. Sponsors who contribute $500 dollars or more are automatically placed in our sponsors/advertisers directory. See http://www.sla.org/chapter/cpnw/sponsors.htm.

Vendor Support - Frances De Marco, Chair
Vendor support was found for 4 events. The October meeting was sponsored and organized by Microsoft. The Christmas Party was sponsored by FIS/Moody's. Webforia sponsored Student Night. The April Regional Conference was supported by Dialog, Factiva, Rowecom, EBSCO, Lexis Nexis, Micromedex, Intelligence Data, SilverPlatter, Sidney Plus, and Kiplinger. 

Advertisers
Legal Information Management paid $150 to place an ad in the Interface and to be listed in the sponsors/advertisers directory.

Public Relations Committee: Anna-Liisa Little, Chair

On the advice of Vince Kueter, purchased a copy of the Washington State
Media Directory. Sent press releases of our events to Seattle Times,
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Eastside Journal and Puget Sound Business
Journal. Despite my efforts at following up with editors, these press
releases did not generate stories.

Worked with Chris Mulready, President-Elect, to create the theme and
press release for the April 21st Joint Chapter Development Day. In
addition to submitting the press release to the media, I sent it out to
the list-servs of the chapters involved.

Submitted by: Anna-Liisa Little

Interface Newsletter Editor 2000-2001 - Stephanie Rawlins

Production 
The decision was made by the Board to move the Interface Newsletter to an online only addition. Online issues were published and posted to the website: Oct. 2000 Vol. 35 No. 1, February 2000 Vol. 35 No. 2, and April 2001, Vol. 35 No. 3. Nola Sterling sent each member a post card alerting them to the change, and announcements were also made via the listserv.
This has been very effective in reducing costs of the newsletter, as mailings are no longer necessary.
Sue Eipert managed the web production of the Interface. After the Interface articles were submitted and edited, content was sent to Sue, who converted them to html files and posted to the chapter web site, where past copies are also archived. 
Emails are sent to the SLA chapter listserv requesting new articles and announcing each new issue.

Content 
Regular features include the "President's Message," "Members in the Spotlight," "Musings" (articles submitted by members on the profession), "New Members" listing with employment information, "Chapter News" items, and "New on the Chapter Web." It is often difficult to find someone for the Members in the Spotlight. This is often a reproduction of an article produced in a corporate newsletter that focuses the library and the SLA member librarian. 

Conclusions 
The electronic version of the Interface has proved to be a good solution for the chapter. Printing and mailing costs have been dissolved, although revenue is still generated through online advertising. Also, the effort required by the editor has been substantially reduced, as producing the paper copy required a great amount of time. Members can view current information (events, meeting minutes) online, or print the information. The Interface is printed and archived before each new issue is produced.

University of Washington Student Chapter - Pam Green

The Information School (formally the School of Library and Information Science) has seen many changes in the past year with a new home, new curriculum, several new faculty members and new status as the 16th independent school of the University of Washington as of July 1, 2001. The SLA-UW student chapter has also seen many positive changes with expanded programming, a full slate of active officers, a revised Web page and a resurgence in student interest.

Monthly Brown Bags
Our monthly brown-bag discussion series has brought in local experts to discuss a variety of topics with students. Attendance ranged from 12-20, mainly students but local professionals also joined us occasionally. We were able to offer light refreshments at each brown bag, with support from the Information School (a.k.a. the iSchool). Topics and speakers included:

Networking Nancy Gershenfeld
Working with your mentor Christa Bindel 
Presentation skills Dana Bostrom
Picking & planning for conferences Dan Trefethen, Nancy Huling
Document delivery services Dottie Smith
Contract writing and negotiation Linda Falken
XML Zoe Holbrooks
Website management & redesign Lauri Ellis 

Tours
Our quarterly library tours have been opportunities for students to check out local special libraries up close and personal. We visited Microsoft, NOAA and National Marine Mammal Laboratory the Experience Music Project and will be visiting the libraries at Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle and Davis Wright Tremaine on May 3. Each tour has been well attended-we even had to start a waiting list for the Experience Music Project tour.

Special events
Our student chapter was pleased to host a few events we hadn't planned in our original schedule.

* In January Stephanie Rawlins, a member of the Pacific Northwest Chapter of SLA, came to campus to give a presentation about her experience with World Library Partnership in South Africa this past summer. (Note: Two UW Information School students have been accepted to participate in the WLP program this coming summer!) 

* In April we had the honor of hosting SLA President Donna Scheeder for an afternoon 'Meet & Greet' with students on campus. Donna chatted with students about their areas of interests, benefits of SLA, expectations students have for professional organizations and much more. Thanks to Nola Sterling for alerting us to this great opportunity. 

* In March we held an informational meeting to talk to students about SLA and our student group for those students who hadn't been able to absorb everything that came their way during orientation in the fall. We had a handout with benefits, activities and Web links; membership forms and samples of Information Outlook on hand. Several students took this opportunity to fill out the membership form to join SLA. 

Professional chapter involvement
Student attendance at Pacific Northwest Chapter meetings increased from the average of 3-5 last year to an average of 10-12 students this year. In addition to attending meetings our involvement included: 

* Helping the student group liaisons Dana Bostrom and Kim Emmons plan the professional chapter's Student Resume Night event for February. The event was held on campus and had a short program followed by resume reviewing by more than a dozen local professionals. 

* Volunteering for and promoting the April meeting, a joint chapter meeting with British Columbia and Oregon, and professional development event. Thanks to Chris Mulready for facilitating volunteers with Sharon Grant. 

* Submitting student chapter updates to the PNWC newsletter, Interface. Our president also attended a PNWC board meeting this past winter and offered insight on student interests and needs related to the annual student night event. 

Conference Scholarship
We will be giving away a student scholarship to attend the SLA annual conference in San Antonio with money raised through a recent iSchool alumni funding drive targeted at supporting student groups. The iSchool will match SLA-UW's contribution, allowing us to cover the majority of expenses. We will be taking entries in early May and drawing for a winner.

One program change
We chose not to coordinate the 'non-traditional librarian' panel that has been offered in past years. The officers felt that there were many more opportunities than in the past for students to learn about non-traditional roles and decided to devote energy to brown bags and tours instead. 

Communication
We publicized events through the school's announcements listserv (iannounce@u.washington.edu) as well as with flyers in the student lounge and around the Information School space. Additional information was available on our Web page (http://students.washington.edu/slauw). 

Meetings
SLA-UW officers have met monthly to discuss upcoming events and any new business that may have come up. Minutes were taken and are available to everyone on our Web site. Other meetings where we have had an SLA-UW representative include student leader meetings with the Director, Mike Eisenberg, and Association of Library and Information Science Students (the iSchool's graduate student group) executive meetings.

Officers:
Pam Green, President (prgreen@u.washington.edu)
Betsy Harper, Vice President (eah99@u.washington.edu)
J.P. Brigham, Secretary (jbrigham@u.washington.edu) (also acted as treasurer since 3/2001)
Esther Jiran, Treasurer (marathon@u.washington.edu) (Treasurer through 3/2001, when graduated)
Sharon Grant, Web Developer (sharongr@u.washington.edu)
Nancy Gershenfeld, Esteemed Faculty Advisor (ngersh@u.washington.edu)

Communications - Sue Eipert 

The Communications committee met as a group with Nola a few times at the beginning of the year to discuss the various aspects of communication within the chapter. It was decided that the Interface newsletter could be entirely electronic - and that the electronic Interface and the listserv could be the main means of communication with chapter members. The web site was re-designed to include two sections. Information about the chapter and committees, chapter events, the officer roster, and minutes and reports are in the main section of the web site. Chapter news and columns (including a new column called 'Musings') are in the Interface - the second section of the web site. The first online Interface was produced in October 2000. A Feb and May issue were produced, and another issue is planned for the summer.