President Mary Steiner bought the meeting to order at 4:40 PM.

Minutes
Minutes from the November 1, 2000 Executive Board Meeting were reviewed, changes noted, and approved by the Board.

Report from SLA Winter Meeting
Mary Steiner and Susan Moss reported on many items from the Winter Meeting. SLA has established five task forces to address critical association issues. The task forces are Conference Program Committee, Simplification, Membership, Partnerships and Branding. The Partnerships Task Force has issued a final report; the others are in various stages of addressing the issues.
It was proposed that the discussion lists hosted by SLA would be restricted to members of SLA only. This proposal received significant opposition; however, the SLA Board voted to adopt this proposal. Membership lists can now be generated from the headquarters website with a password. The website will also have a master calendar and a best practices database. The database will be a leadership knowledge center, with best practices submitted from the chapter, division and caucus level. Ideas for integrating new members into the chapter included a buddy system which matches seasoned members to new members, having new members help with hospitality, having name tags identify new members or students, and sending new members discount coupons for program meetings. Ideas for introducing SLA to potential members included having a student reception, establishing a student job shadow program, and encouraging members to bring their boss or another non-SLA information professional to a meeting.
Regional networking dinners may be offered for informal summer gatherings. It was determined that the Chapter can establish an endowment as a "Friends of the Chapter" group. Some chapters have established board positions that are training positions. Examples include web editor-elect, treasurer-elect and president-elect-elect. The Winter Meeting sessions dealt with many additional issues such as fundraising, program meeting ideas, strategic planning and mentoring.

President's Report
The Chapter has an old laptop with Windows 3.1. It was decided that this would be raffled off at a program meeting.
Judy Matolka will bring a digital camera to the March meeting and photos of members can be taken during the networking time. These photos will be used for member profiles in a secure area of the Chapter website.
Mary noted that an endowment fund grant is available if the Chapter would like to apply for money for a special project.
April 5 is International Special Libraries Day.
Vote for new SLA Board members by March 8.

President-Elect/Program Chair's Report
Susan reported that over 50 people attended the February meeting which generated a profit of $227.57. The next Chapter meeting will be on March 27 at Good Time Charlie's in Kingston. The topic is content integration in web portals with a panel of speakers. The April meeting date has yet to be determined. May 17 will be the Chapter annual business meeting at Prospect House with Mary Ellen Bates as the speaker.
A joint P-T and NJ Chapter meeting is being planned for September.

Treasurer's Report
Anne Frihart distributed the Chapter's year-end financial statements.
Anne, Mary Steiner, Susan Moss and Darla Wagner met with two Summit Bank representatives on January 10 to discuss options for a certificate of deposit, which had matured and was due for renewal. The CD for $5000 was renewed for 7 months and will mature on August 10. The certificate is in Anne's personal safe deposit box and will be passed to the next Treasurer. The bank waived the fee for the lost certificate. A savings account was opened with $3000. It comes with an ATM card.

Membership Report
Susan Bales reported that there are 177 members on the Chapter roster.

Membership Directory Update
Janet Weiss has sent out a mailing to solicit corrections for the new P-T SLA directory. There was some discussion of whether vendors should be provided with a copy of the directory.

P-T SLA Discussion List
New members email addresses should be forwarded to Miranda Scott in order for her to add them to the Chapter discussion list.

Professional Development
Dorothy Alibrando has not been able to get in contact with the NJ SLA professional development chair about potential workshop co-sponsorship. One suggested topic was web design. March 29 is a videoconference on ROI.

Reception at Annual Conference in San Antonio
The joint P-T, Philadelphia and NJ Chapter reception will be held June 11. Sponsors are needed for this event.

Fund Development
In Kirsten Kliwinski's absence, Mary reported that she and Darla have made follow-up calls to potential sponsors who received a letter. Website sponsorship is still needed.

Chapter Website Report Mitchell Brown reported that job ads are being posted to both the website and the Chapter discussion list.
The featured sponsors on the website banner ads will be removed since they have not contributed for this advertising.
Mitchell will develop a Chapter member profile form and have the board fill it out initially.
He intends to create a members-only area of the website for member profiles with photos, financial statements, etc.

Rutgers SCILS Donation
Maxine Goldsmith initiated a discussion about the Chapter's annual donation to SCILS. In prior years, $500 has been given to the SCILS Student Association for their trip to Washington, DC or for Career Day. It was recommended that the donation continue to be designated for the benefit of the students, not to SCILS.

Chapter History
Maxine has updated the Chapter History to the present.

Bylaws
Mary presented a draft of proposed changes to the Chapter Bylaws and led a discussion about the changes. Three additional changes were approved: Article V, Section 3 change 10 days to 21 days, Article VI, Section 1 add Leadership Development to the standing committees, and Article VI, Section 2 append "with the advice of the Chapter president" at the end of the second sentence.

New Business
Susan Moss proposed changing the funding for the president and president-elect's attendance at the Annual Conference and Winter Meeting. Currently the Chapter funds their attendance at two meetings each year. She suggested adding funding for an additional meeting for incoming officers. It was decided that the Chapter would expect these officers to attend five meetings each and will give a maximum of $2500 toward meeting attendance. Special circumstances of need for additional funds can be brought to the president.

Next Chapter Meeting: March 27
Next Board Meeting: TBD
Meeting was adjourned at 7:20 PM.
Attendees: Mary Steiner, Susan Moss, Susan Bales, Joy Whitney, Janet Cooper Weiss, Jan Watterworth, Mitchell Brown, Anne LaPlante, Anne Frihart, Dorothy Alibrando, Maxine Goldsmith. Submitted by : Joy Whitney, Secretary