Board Meeting Minutes
Friday, January 28, 2000
HUB Student Union, University of Washington
Present: Dawn Duddleson, Toni Emerson, Alison Keyes, Corey Murata, Nola
Sterling.
The meeting was called to order at 5:15.
The November 16, 1999 Board Meeting minutes were approved. The email Board
votes concerning the Strategic Plan update and funding for Toni and Nola's
attendance at the SLA Mid-Winter Conference were confirmed. Both votes
passed.
Toni presented issues that came up at the Mid-Winter Conference.
SLA is interested in partnering with other associations. Our Chapter is
trying to create a joint lending library with other library associations'
local chapters. Vivienne has gotten a positive response from LLOPS, but no
definitive response from ASIS or ACRL. It was proposed that Vivienne should
contact ASIS and ACRL once more, and that we should move forward with the
joint library plan even if only LLOPS participates. The motion passed
unanimously.
SLA is considering a name change for the Association, and Headquarters
prefers that the Association's logo be used more universally around the
Chapters. Our Chapter's website currently uses our local logo, developed
for the Seattle Conference, but perhaps we should add Headquarters' logo as
well. There was also a discussion concerning the inclusion of sponsors'
logos on our website. Toni's understanding is that their logos can be
included if we receive services from them.
Headquarters is interested in simplifying the Association's structure. Many
Chapters, including ours, cannot fill all the committee chair positions they
have set up. We need to eliminate some chairs while retaining key
functions. The possibility of having Co-Chairs with two-year terms was
discussed, as was the question of whether or not people should be rotated
out of these positions to prevent burnout. It was decided that we should
compress the committee structure of our Chapter into teams, each with a team
leader and subareas within each team. The teams would cover people, money,
and communications. This will be discussed further at the next Board
meeting.
Alison will take over as the Grants and Awards Chair. We need to publicize
the grants and have students send in grant requests. We also provide up to
four Annual Awards each year, although we do not need to give them all out
each year. We need to solicit nominations for these awards.
Nola requested that the Chapter donate $100.00 to the I-School's Margaret
Chisholm Memorial Fund. The motion passed unanimously.
Headquarters will be distributing $16,000 in grant money next year.
Applications are due by July 1. Nola is working on a grant application with
the Oregon Chapter to help fund next year's joint meeting.
Corey distributed copies of the Chapter's current Cash Flow Report and
Balance Sheet. Toni asked him to put together cash flow reports for
Programming as well.
The next board meeting will be February 9 from 6:30 to 8:30 at Toni's house.
The meeting was adjourned at 5:55 PM.
Minutes submitted by Dawn Duddleson.
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