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1. Call to Order. The meeting was called to order at approximately 4:40 p.m. Outgoing President Mitchell Brown opened the meeting. He welcomed the new Board members and informed them that SLA requires that they agree to a Leadership Code of Responsibility.
   
2. Additions to the Agenda. None.
   
3. Approval of Minutes. Pending; Outgoing Secretary Gregg Rempkowski will write up the minutes of the last meeting, held in February, 2004.
   
4. Introduction of new Board members. Jan reported the following new members to the board.
   • President: Jan Watterworth
   • Secretary: Susan Gleckner
   
   Other board members include: President–Elect: Connie Paul; Past President: Mitchell Brown; Treasurer: P Joy Whitney; Membership Chair: Elana Broch; Director: Mary Lukacs; Chapter Archivist: Susan Moss; Consultation Officer: Janet Weiss; Web Master: Miranda Scott.
   
5. SLA Annual Conference comments/discussion. Comments centered around the small membership turnout in Nashville (about 3800). There may be a greater need of fundraising to support processional development programs in the future. The Mid-Atlantic reception (a joint event involving the Central Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Princeton/Trenton, and Central New Jersey, and Maryland Chapters) was well-attended. Mitchell pointed out the need to pay more attention to acknowledging vendor support of the reception and to thank the organizers.
   
6. President's Report. Jan handed out copies of the Princeton-Trenton Chapter Governing Document, darted February 1, 2004.
   
7. President Elect/Program Chair's Report. 2003-2004 Programming Chair Jan handed out a table, “2003-2004 Princeton/Trenton SLA Program” summarizing the past year’s meeting topics, speakers, locations, committee contacts, sponsors, and number of attendees.
   
   The Program Planning meeting for 2004-2005 was held immediately following this board meeting.
   
8. Treasurer's Report. Treasurer Elana Broch distributed a spreadsheet entitled “Meetings: Sept. 2003 – May 2004,” showing the meeting fees paid by attendees, expenses, the net difference, and the number of attendees. She reported that the Chapter lost money on all meetings and is operating at a deficit.
   
9. The Chapter has $3000 in savings, about the same in a checking account, and was allocated $5o00 from a LSA pooled find, for a total of about $11,000.
   
10. Membership Report. There was no report available from Membership Chair Lorene Connolly.
    
11. Fund Development. There was no feedback regarding fund development.
    
12. Rosemary Little Award update. Awards Committee Chair Claire McInerney reported that nine essays had been submitted, and recounted the presentation of the award to Catherine Michael. Claire said that she has received a suggestion to institute a Chapter Member of the Year award.
    
13. Old Business. The method of communicating meeting announcements was discussed. Jan suggested sending out paper for the upcoming September meeting, and poll the membership as to their preferences for paper/electronic. Jan volunteered to do the mailing.
    
    Library Journal’s coverage of the Super Librarian statewide marketing campaign was discussed. Some Board members do not agree with this portrayal of librarians. The Chapter owes $2981 for its support of the campaign.
    
14. New Business. Jan reported that Mitchell, Susan Moss, Mary Steiner, Susan Gleckner, and Jan had agreed to be on a the Committee to develop Chapter Governing Document and Recommended Practices for Chapters. The resulting document will be reviewed by the Chapter Board as a whole, then gets forwarded to SLA Headquarters
    The issue of the boundaries between the Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Princeton-Trenton Chapters was brought up at the SLA Leadership summit in January 2004.
    
    A survey will be issued to Chapter members to gauge meeting topics.
    The Chapter’s business is audited at the end of the fiscal year.
    Claire said that the Chapter needs a representative to liaison with Rutgers SCILS. Elana volunteered.
    Janet agreed to call vendors to drum up more sponsorship.
    
15. Meeting Closed. The meeting was adjourned by Jan, in a motion by Janet, seconded by Claire, at approximately 5:40 p.m.