Place: Mathematica Policy Research, Princeton, New Jersey
Attendees: Ruth Weitzenfeld, Mitchell Brown, Janet Cooper Weiss,
Leslie Lanphear, Jan Watterworth, Connie Paul, Elana Broch, and
Gregg Rempkowski
- Call to Order. The meeting was called to order at approximately
5:20PM.
- Additions to the Agenda. Janet proposed a change to the April
agenda and would like to see that we add a new paragraph to the
Rosemary Little Award Update. The second paragraph of the Rosemary
Little Update should be changed to #10 titled Archives.
- Approval of Minutes. Jan moved to approve the minutes as printed
and Ruth seconded. The motion was so carried.
- Introduction of new Board members. Mitchell reported the following
new members to the board.
- Director: Connie Paul
- Secretary: Gregg Rempkowski
Mitchell mentioned he would like to see the Princeton-Trenton Chapter
site redesigned for the upcoming year.
Leslie Lanphear has agreed to again be the Hospitality Chair for
the next year.
- SLA Annual Conference comments/discussion. Overall, feedback
was positive with the exception of the prices for food and hotels.
Members were satisfied with the topics and classes but admitted
it was difficult to commute between the hotels with the short amount
of time in between meetings. Madeleine Albright and David McCullough
were the center of discussion in which many of the members really
enjoyed.
- President's Report. Board members were asked to sign the Leadership
Code of Responsibility. There was also some talk of the bylaws revision
which caused some discussion to follow.
- President Elect/Program Chair's Report. Jan proposed a joint
Oct meeting with the NJ Chapter. No much has been planned for the
fall meetings yet.
The Program Report was held immediately following the board meeting.
Connie suggested getting a speaker from the Library of Congress,
possibly the Nov meeting. Other possible meetings include the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation's library, a taxonomies meeting, Nancy Minter,
and Christine Borgman of the UCLA library.
Also mentioned was that meeting announcements going forward will
be electronic, with the exception of a few members that requested
a hard copy.
- Treasurer's Report. According to our treasurer Elana Broch;
we are in good shape financially. We recently received $2000 in
dues allotments. We also have $5000 in CD's earning 1% interest.
There is also $4000 in the checking and $3000 in the savings.
- Fund Development. There was no feedback regarding fund development.
- Membership Report. Since April there have been 5 new members
added to the chapter.
- Rosemary Little award update. Janet Cooper Weiss handed out
the Rosemary Little award info, the next award given will be handed
out in May 04.
- New Business. Mitchell proposed that the bulletin should post
more current news like in the past. As a result, Janet recommended
that the Chapter President assign a bulletin editor admin to control
the flow of content on the site. Mitchell will begin to collect
info for the bulletin.
Possible monthly meeting for 2004 may include Janice LaChance,
Clare Hart and the Princeton Univ. President [Shirley Tilghman].
Connie Paul also mentioned that the NJ Leadership Training is taking
place on July 31st, and she highly recommends it. The training is
offered by EMA. Additional info can be found at their website which
is www.cjrlc.org.
- Meeting Closed. There being no further business, the meeting
was adjourned at approximately 7:10 p.m.
| Submitted by: |
Gregg Rempkowski
Secretary |
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