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INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY DIVISION PRESENT: Officers: Hope Tillman,
Chair; Karen Bleakley, Chair-Elect; Lillian Mesner, Past Chair, Dee Magnoni,
Treasurer; Lynne Bidwell, Secretary Committee
Representatives: Charlotte Kohrs, Archives; Alice Marksberry, b/ITE Business Manager; Vandana
Ranjan, AAC Chair -Elect; Debbie Sharp, Minneapolis
Program Planner Section Representatives:
Tony Hall, (representing Libby Trudell), Virtual
Section Chair; Erlinda Compton, Technical Services
Chair-Elect; Connie Sheridan, Technical Services Chair; Karalyn
Kavanaugh, Information Systems Chair-Elect; Seymour
C. Satin, Digital Content Chair; Holly Chong-Williams,
Government Information Section Chair-Elect/Membership; Ty
Webb, Virtual Chair-Elect Carol Gehringer,
ITE Member, Walt Howe, ITE Member CALL TO ORDER: Chair Tillman called the
meeting to order at 4:05 p.m. MEETING AGENDA: Tillman circulated the
meeting agenda. MINUTES: Bidwell circulated the
minutes of the June 7, 1998 Executive Board Meeting. Magnoni
moved for approval of the minutes; Bleakley
seconded the motion; the motion carried unanimously. OFFICER’S REPORTS: Chair: Tillman commented
that she has been very pleased to work with Mesner
this past year and believes that we have laid the groundwork for a more
responsive division. Now that we have updated section names and charges, she
looks forward to being able to use these directions to be meaningful to our
members. She looks forward to Mesner’s support as
Past Chair, and welcomed Chair Elect, Bleakley, and
the rest of the ITE Board of officers and committee chairs. We will be
working closely together to keep the momentum going. - Report from the
Division Cabinet: Tillman has a copy of the Division Cabinet report. - The New Brighton
Conference has been renamed the Global 2000 Conference. The goal for
attendance is 800-1,200. This conference is a great opportunity to get
attendance from - Mesner
moved to suspend our bylaws and have a single slate of officers pending
revision of bylaws; Kavanaugh seconded the motion;
the motion carried unanimously. - New sections:
communications, goal setting, development of
position descriptions: Tillman invited discussion of the new sections. Mesner will be mailing the information about the new
sections to all Chapter newsletters, - Use of chat, board and
division listservs, and forum: We will be moving
the division’s listserv to - 50th Anniversary
planning: Tillman will verify with Headquarters that the Documentation
Committee, the predecessor the ITE Division was founded in 1949. The 50th
anniversary of the division will be celebrated in 1999 at the Minneapolis
Annual Conference. TREASURER’S REPORT: Balance ending May 31,
1998 Webb moved to have SECTION CHAIR
REPORTS/REMARKS: - Technical Services
Section: Compton and Sheridan will be working closely together on this section. - Virtual: Hall reported
for Trudell that she will be looking at case
studies. - Webmaster Section: The
web site needs attention of many people. McCulley
wasn’t able to attend this meeting. Tillman reminded the section and
committee chairs to update the information on the web site. COMMITTEE CHAIR
REPORTS/REMARKS: - 1999 Minneapolis
Program Planner: The SLA Conference Planning Guide is online at www.sla.org/conf_meet/guide. This web site requires a
password. Contact Katz for the password to access the 1999 Planner’s
information online. - Global 2000 Program
Planner: Tillman reported for Wiley that Blackwell’s will be one of the
sponsors for this conference. We will be looking for vendor sponsorship.
Contact Wiley with ideas for vendor sponsorship. - Affirmative Action: Ranjan has the handbook for affirmative action, if anyone
needs to see it. - b/ITE:
Mesner moved to authorize the purchase of PageMaker
for b/ITE; Bleakley seconded it; the motion passed
unanimously. Howe requested that new words for the b/ITE glossary be
submitted to him. - Bylaws and Strategic
Planning: Mesner will be working on revising the
division’s bylaws and the procedures manual. She will need a lot of input
from the Board. - Membership: Chong-Williams plans to send postcards to new members. - Professional
Development: Sharp reported that the deadline for CE Courses is August 1,
1998. OLD BUSINESS: There was no Old
Business. NEW BUSINESS: - Letterhead design: We
need to update our letterhead. An announcement for soliciting new designs
will be placed in b/ITE. - South Atlantic Regional
Conference, “Networking 2000:” Gehringer reported
that the conference will be held in ADJOURNMENT: Mesner moved to adjourn the meeting; Bleakley seconded it; the motion passed unanimously. The
meeting was adjourned at 5:30 p.m. Respectively Submitted, Return
to the SLA IT
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