PRESENT:
Officers: Lillian Mesner, Chair; John Piety, Past-Chair; Hope Tillman, Chair-Elect; Erlinda Compton, Treasurer; Lynne Bidwell, Secretary; Jeanne Spala, Past Secretary

Committee Representatives: Dee Magnoni, Networking Section Chair; Connie Sheridan, Technical Services Chair-Elect; Libby Trudell, Strategic Planning Chair; Barbara Folensbee-Moore, b/ITE Editor; Patricia Wilson, Government Relations Chair; Charlotte Kohrs, Archives; Seymour Satin, Online Section Chair-Elect; James Manasco, Awards Committee Chair; P. Michael McCulley, Web Master; Sharyn Ladner, Past Web Master; Ellen Mimnaugh, Awards, Past-Chair; Sharon McKay, Awards;

Section Members: Sharon Shafer; Zohreh Imam

CALL TO ORDER:

The meeting was called to order at 4:00 p.m. by Chair Mesner.

MEETING AGENDA:

The Meeting agenda was circulated by Mesner.

MINUTES:

Spala circulated minutes of the Board's June 8, 1997 Executive Board meeting. Piety moved for approval; Bidwell seconded the motion; the motion carried unanimously and the minutes were approved as distributed. The minutes of the Board's June 10, 1997, Annual Business were distributed; approval of the minutes to be voted on at the Board's Annual Business Meeting in June 1998.

TREASURER'S REPORT:

Compton distributed her report and reviewed our financial position.

NOMINATIONS:

Joyce Baker and Vinita Singh were nominated for the slate of candidates, but they were not members of the Division at the time of the nomination. Bidwell reported that Vinita Singh has since joined the Division. Tillman moved to appoint Vinita Singh to the position of Microcomputer Chair-Elect; Piety seconded the motion; the motion carried unanimously. Joyce Baker was nominated for the position of Government Chair-Elect; Mesner will contact her regarding her Division membership status.

LISTSERV:

Mesner recommended that the listserv, ITE-BD, be used by the Board for informal discussions; formal voting to occur at the Board meetings. Piety moved that the Board approve payment of a shell account for elected and appointed officers of the ITE Division; Tillman seconded the motion; the motion carried unanimously.

SECTION REPORTS:

B/ite: Folensbee-Moore reported that the newsletter is published three times per year. All submissions should be submitted to Folensbee-Moore. The newsletter will continue to be distributed hard copy this year. She will investigate distributing the newsletter via Web. The deadlines for each issue will be posted on the listserv three times per year. The first issue should be out at the end of August 1997.

Awards: McKay and Mimnaugh reported on the Distinguished Member award presented by the Division in the past. It was recommended that the Awards Committee go forward with plans for re-establishing the Distinguished Member award for 1998.

Strategic Planning: Trudell submitted a first draft of the strategic plan and received input from the Board. Trudell plans to create a membership needs survey based on the input of the Board and by reviewing the Division's past membership surveys. The survey will be distributed to the membership and by print. Division members will have the option to fax or mail back, "postage guaranteed," the survey results.

An announcement will be placed in b/ITE to alert the membership to expect the membership survey.

Nominations: Piety plans to form the Nominations Committee by November 1. Nominations should be submitted to Piety.

Web Page: McCulley successfully relocated the Web page to Knight-Ridder. The Board was encouraged to send submissions for the Web page. The URL is: www.krinfo.com/ITE/home.html.

Indianapolis Planner: Deb Hatfield is the Indianapolis planner. She was unable to attend the Board meeting due to a meeting conflict. Mesner reported that Hatfield is in contact with Business & Finance regarding the possibility of co-sponsoring a program.

OLD BUSINESS:

There was no old business.

NEW BUSINESS:

Listserv: The Board will use the listserv, ITE-BD, for informal discussions and to conduct the Division's business.

b/ITE: The newsletter will continue to be distributed via hard copy this year. The goal is to move the newsletter to the Web in the future.

Reshaping the Division: The membership needs survey will be sent out by mid-August. The survey results will be used to create a strategic plan for the Division.

Budgets: Budgets should be submitted to Mesner by July 10.

SLA Winter Meeting: The Winter Meeting will be held at the Crystal City Marriott, Arlington, VA, January 21-24, 1998. Mesner will make the arrangements for the Board meeting and will inform the Board about the meeting place and time.

ADJOURNMENT:

The meeting adjourned at 5:35 p.m.