INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DIVISION
SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION
Executive Board Meeting
January 22, 2000
Marriott Pavilion Hotel, St. Louis, MO

PRESENT:

Officers: Karen Bleakley, Chair; Trudy Katz, Chair-Elect; Hope Tillman, Past Chair;

Dee Magnoni, Treasurer; Deborah Sharp, Secretary

Committee Representatives: Ty Webb, Virtual Chair; Walt Howe, Virtual Chair-Elect; Karalyn Kavanaugh, Information Systems Chair; Heather Hlava, Information Systems Chair-Elect; Andy Breeding, Programming Systems Chair; Michael Leach, Webmaster Chair; Lynne Bidwell, 2000 Philadelphia Program Planner;

CALL TO ORDER:

Chair Bleakley called the meeting to order at 1:00 p.m.

MEETING AGENDA:

Bleakley circulated the meeting agenda.

MINUTES:

There was one correction made to the minutes of the June 6, 1999 Executive Board Meeting. The spelling of Carolyn Coutlas’ last name was changed to Kotlas. Tillman moved that the minutes be approved. Howe seconded the motion. The minutes were then approved.

OFFICERS’ REPORTS:

Chair:

Bleakley summarized the various LDI sessions that she attended:

Headquarters has developed a prospectus to send to prospective vendors. It explains what you get for your money. ITE should develop such a model.

An advisory board for the SLA web page will be named.

Headquarters is forming a task force to work with an outside company to explore the branding and image of SLA.

Headquarters will conduct an audit of divisions and chapters to determine existing partnerships.

A Conference Planning Task Force will look at how programs are being planned. Susan DiMattia is looking for volunteers.

Divisions and Chapters have requested a simplification of organizational structure and a reduction of administrative detail.

Headquarters has recommended that all Divisions and Chapters should have budgets.

SLA’s endowment fund has now reached $390,000. This fund is to be used to benefit the membership.

 

Chair-Elect:

Katz reported on fund raising for the Philadelphia Conference. She has updated the Vendor Contact List. Fifty letters have been mailed but no money has been received yet. Katz will follow up with phone calls.

Treasurer:

Magnoni reported:

ITE Year-End Financial

1/1/99 - 12/31/99

INCOME

Dues Allotment 26,850.00

Interest Income  238.97

Meeting Income 1,234.00

Miscellaneous Inc          250.00

Sponsorships   13,450.00

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TOTAL INCOME            42,022.97

EXPENSES

Bank Charges    97.29

Bulletin -- Non-Adv        11,107.36

Meeting Expense          41,137.32

Miscellaneous Expense 143.24

Postage & Supply         216.75

Void     0.00

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TOTAL EXPENSES       52,701.96

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TOTAL INCOME – EXPENSES   -10,678.99

TRANSFERS

TO BankBoston Savings            -10,000.00

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TOTAL TRANSFERS      -10,000.00

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OVERALL TOTAL          -20,678.99

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ITE Division Balance Sheet by Year

As of 12/31/1999

            12/31/98            12/31/99

Acct     Balance            Balance

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ASSETS

Cash and Bank Accounts

BankBoston Checking    30,285.94          9,606.95

BankBoston Savings     0.00      10,219.07

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TOTAL Cash and Bank Accounts            30,285.94         19,826.02

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TOTAL ASSETS            30,285.94          19,826.02

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LIABILITIES & EQUITY

LIABILITIES       0.00     0.00

EQUITY            30,285.94          9,826.02

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TOTAL LIABILITIES & EQUITY 30,285.94          19,826.02

           

SECTION CHAIR REPORTS/REMARKS:

Digital Content: Ruby not in attendance. No report submitted,

Government Information: Chong-Williams not in attendance. No report submitted. Chair-Elect Higley sent Bleakley ideas for a choice of 2 programs for 2001 San Antonio: Public/private partnerships in developing digital projects within the federal government or the archiving of electronic records.

Information Systems: Kavanaugh reported programs planned for Philadelphia with PAM, CHE, BIO, and PHM Divisions. Sponsorship for AV funding discussed.

Programming Systems: Breeding has planned Choosing and Using Internet Search Engines Part 4 with a 3 person panel.

Technical Services: Sheridan not in attendance. Bleakley read Sheridan’s report. Two programs are planned for the 2000 annual conference: (1) Sunday workshop presented by staff from Library of Congress' Program on Cooperative Cataloging. (2) Monday program entitled "Metadata for Libraries: the OCLC CORC Environment" will review the OCLC program to gather and describe (catalog) Internet electronic resources.

Virtual Section: Webb reported on her program, a panel discussion of the Library of California Digital Library headed by Barbara Will. Also discussed the issue of chats and the problem of "time, technology, and topic".

Webmaster: Leach keeps the ITE web site up and running. Still working to get the webmaster section discussion list up and running. Would like to have a webmaster round table in San Antonio.

COMMITTEE CHAIR REPORTS/REMARKS:

2000 Philadelphia Program Planner: Bidwell, together with the Section chairs, has planned 12 programs, 4 Open Houses Saturday through Tuesday, a joint reception with Sci-Tech and other scientific/technical divisions, a field trip to the Hagley Museum & Library, a book signing, and ITE’s 2 board meetings and annual business meeting luncheon. ITE is programmed into all available slots with only one overlap.

2000 Brighton Conference: Kavanaugh replaced Deborah Wiley as Conference Planner. Kavanaugh reported that Peter Cochrane, Chief Technologist for British Telecom Laboratories, is scheduled to speak. She suggested he might also be used as keynote speaker in addition to ITE program or sponsored by ITE. There was also discussion about ITE being listed as a co-sponsor of the program on the Digital Library Projects. ITE has not agreed to be a co-sponsor. Discussion about whom should attend Brighton Conference. Bleakley, Katz and Kavanaugh will be official representatives of ITE. Anyone else who can afford to come is welcome.

2001 San Antonio 50th Anniversary: McKay not in attendance. Bleakley read McKay’s report.

The celebration is targeted for Tuesday, June 12, 2001. McKay has organized the activities of the committee by short term and long term tasks. Members of the committee with their areas of responsibility are:

Seymour Satin and Jane Dysart: Corporate sponsorship and fund raising

Refreshments: Lynne Bidwell

Georgia Higley: Keepsake booklet

Erika Mittag: San Antonio venue

Lillian Mesner: Archives

Hope Tillman: Discussion list

Doris Helfer: Liaison to past Chairs

Charlene Baldwin, Beth Fain, Buzzy Basch, Trudy Katz: General

McKay would like to have a volunteer for treasurer and for publicity coordinator

2001 San Antonio Program: Bidwell has volunteered to be Program Planner.

Affirmative Action: V. Ranjan not in attendance. No report submitted.

Archives: L. Mesner not in attendance. Bleakley read her report: University of Kentucky has agreed to take the ITE archives as soon as they are organized. Mesner has received 3 boxes of records. She has purchased acid-free boxes and folders in which to store them and she hopes to have most of the organizing work completed by the June 2000 meeting in Philadelphia.

Awards: J. Manasco not in attendance. Bleakley read his report: Announcement for Joe Ann Clifton Student Award was sent to all accredited library schools in the U.S. and Canada in the Fall of 1999. Second notice will be mailed on January 20, 2000. Other notices include several SLA and ALA mail lists, the (SLA) website and b/ITE. Deadline for entrants is March 6, 2000. Volunteers to read essays should contact Manasco. Request for nominations for the 2000 ITE Member Award has been posted. No nominees have yet been received. Manasco also posted information about the various SLA awards to the ITE mail list and wrote a letter as Awards Chair supporting the nomination of an ITE member for an award.

b/ITE: B. Folsenbee-Moore has resigned her position as editor. Jim Smallwood has been asked to assume the position.

b/ITE Business Manager: Position still vacant. Ads have been published in b/ITE that have not been invoiced for payment. Magnoni will invoice to try and recover lost advertising dollars. Due to budgetary constraints, Tillman made the motion that the next issue of b/ITE be published on web site only with a note to membership asking who needs a paper copy. Howe seconded the motion. Motion carried.

Bylaws: Proposed revisions discussed. Magnoni made the motion to approve the changes. Howe seconded. Motion carried. Suggested changes will go out to membership for approval at Annual Meeting.

Career Guidance: D. Smith-Cohen not in attendance. No report submitted.

Discussion List: Tillman discussed need to create an e-mailing list for all ITE members because not enough members were subscribed to SLA-DITE.

Membership: L. Minch not in attendance. No report submitted.

Professional Development: S. Piggott not in attendance. No report submitted. ITE wants to do two CE Courses for San Antonio.

Public Relations: Position is still vacant.

Strategic Planning: All of the ITE members present for this meeting participated in a 3 hour strategic planning session prior to today’s board meeting. Jane Dysart and Rebecca Jones.

facilitated the session.

OLD BUSINESS:

Tillman discussed webcasting. Two programs were videotaped at Annual Meeting in Minnesota, for purposes of broadcasting via the web. The tapes were of poor quality. Tillman recommended creating only one tape for Brighton.

NEW BUSINESS:

Communications Division is talking again about merging with ITE. ITE is friendly toward the merger if that decision is made.

Magnoni mentioned that all Divisions are supposed to retain one year’s operating funds in reserve. Tillman moved that the Division should establish a reserve fund of one year’s operating costs by the year 2010. Katz seconded the motion. Motion carried.

Bleakley mentioned the need for a budget. A discussion will be initiated on the SLA ITE Board mail list.

ADJOURNMENT:

There being no further business, the meeting adjourned at 5:00 p.m.

 

 

 

Deborah Sharp, Secretary

January 2000


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