- PRESENT:
- Officers: Lillian Mesner, Chair; Hope Tillman, Chair-Elect; Erlinda
Compton, Treasurer; Lynne Bidwell, Secretary, John Piety, Past Chair
- CALL TO ORDER:
- Chair Mesner called the meeting to order at 12:00 p.m.
- MEETING AGENDA
- Mesner circulated the meeting agenda.
- MINUTES:
- Walt Howe moved to accept the Minutes of the 1997 Annual Membership
Meeting as posted on the ITE web page; Dee Magnoni seconded the motion;
the motion carried unanimously.
- TREASURER'S REPORT:
- Compton presented the Treasurer's Report.
Balance ending May 31, 1998
- Checking/Operating Fund $24,417.87
- Savings/Reserve Fund $37,367.17
Total Available Funds $61,785.04
Highlights: Four issues of b/ITE were published (average cost
$4,159.00). Funds raised for the Indianapolis Conference totaled
$6,900.00. The Board, at the June 7 Executive Board meeting, approved
$10,000 to be set aside in an interest bearing account for the Brighton
conference.
- CHAIR'S REPORT:
- Mesner reported that she focused on Phase One of restructuring the
Division. Phase One involved discussion and decision making. Phase Two
will be the implementation of the decisions. Tillman will be
responsible for Phase Two.
- Mesner thanked the Board for all the work accomplished this year. All
of the Section Chairs planned programs for the Indianapolis conference.
Trudy Katz is already doing a lot of program planning for the
Minneapolis conference.
- James Manasco introduced Una Hildebrandt, the Student Award winner. The
Student Award will be called the Joe Ann Clifton Award in honor of
former member, Joe Ann Clifton, starting in 1999. The Member Award will
be renamed the Grieg Aspnes Award, in honor of former member Grieg
Aspnes. Mesner hopes Clifton and Aspnes will be able to attend the
Minneapolis conference.
- Results of the 1997/98 Election:
Chair-Elect: Karen Bleakley
Treasurer: Dee Magnoni
Technical Services Section Chair-Elect: Erlinda Compton
Networking Section Chair-Elect: Ty Webb
Government Information Section Chair-Elect: Holly Chong-Williams
Microcomputer Section Chair-Elect: Karalyn Kavanaugh
Online Section Chair-Elect: Carolyn Ruby
Tillman presented Mesner with thank you gifts on behalf of the
Division for all the work that Mesner has done this. The gifts
presented were a Dilbert T-shirt, baseball cap, and pin.
- CHAIR-ELECT'S REPORT:
- Tillman referred to two things she received and read the week before
this conference to put the coming year in context.
1) The Internet Index #22 by Win Treese
http://www.openmarket.com/intindex
This webzine says something about the world in which we are operating at
this point in time.
-
-The estimated number of web users in the U.S. is 57,037,000
-The estimated number of web pages in April 1998 is 320 million
-The number of ISPs in Saudi Arabia is 0.
-The number of phone calls to INTERNIC registration service Feb 1998:
40,476
-The number of gopher requests to INTERNIC registration services Feb
1998: 71,744
-The number of www requests to INTERNIC registration services Feb 1998:
17,091,774
-Percentage of chop sticks labeled with URLs at Mary Chong's lunch:
12.5
-The number of dogs with a URL on her name tag: 1
- 2) A book by a nonlibrarian Mary Morris with the title "Cybercareers"
published by Sun Microsystems, 1998. Morris refers to information
management skills in the chapter on Arts and Media Overview and Content
Skills and succeeding chapter Arts and Media Meta-Information Skills:
Human Information Design Spectrum, Information Abstraction, Information
Engineering, Document Design (SGML/HTML), Message Refinement,
Interactivity Design, Usability, and Human Performance. The titles of
jobs of the future read: Subject Matter Mentor, Niche Mediators,
Reality Envisionist and talked about moving from teaching to mentoring.
To talk about where we are going in the next year or so, Tillman touched
on six topics: the Brighton Year 2000 Special Meeting in Fall 2000, the
Minneapolis Annual Conference, the Division reengineering with new and
redesigned sections and their scope notes, the b/ITE newsletter, and our
web site and listservs.
The Brighton Program Planner is Deb Wiley and we look to partner with
other divisions and involve our European chapter members. We hope to do
something that will be of value to those not attending as well.
The Minneapolis Program Planner is Trudy Katz. She is hard at work
planning programs which include Disaster Recovery, the Year 2000, and
the European monetary unit, Data Mining, Metadata, among others.
The Board recognized the need to reengineer our services since the
section names and scopes have remained static for at least a decade with
the exception of the Networking Section, which was added in 1993. So,
on Sunday, we added two new sections (Webmasters and Programming,
Systems Analysis and Design), and resculpted the others with new names
and/or scope notes. The Revised and New Section Names and Scope Notes
for Consideration at the SLA ITE Division Board Meeting, June 7, 1998
and Additional Votes from Sunday Board Meeting were distributed.
These passed unanimously at the Sunday Board Meeting.
The listserv now at SLA headquarters has received new life this year
with Dee Magnoni's book talk, and hopefully we will bring valuable
content to it in the coming year. The web site is at SLA as well and
has information about sections as well as our activities as a whole. As
we look ahead we need to look at more active ways for the division to
add value for our members not just at annual meeting but during the year
as well.
The Documentation Division, the predecessor of the ITE Division, was
founded in 1949. The 50th anniversary of the Division will be
celebrated in 1999 at the Minneapolis Annual Conference.
-
ITE Committees:
-
1999 Minneapolis Program Planner: Trudy Katz
-
2000 Brighton Program Planner: Deb Wiley
-
2000 Philadelphia Program Planner: to be announced by Karen Bleakley
-
Affirmative Action Committee Chair: Vandana Ranjan
-
Archives Committee Chair: Charlotte Kohrs
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Awards Committee Chair: James Manasco
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b/ITE Editor: Barbara Folensbee-Moore
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b/ITE Business Manger: Alice Marksberry
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Bylaws Committee Chair: Lillian Mesner
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Career Guidance Committee Chair: Deborah Smith-Cohen
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Listserv Manager: Hope Tillman
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Membership Committee Chair: Holly Chong-Williams
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Professional Development Committee Chair: Deborah Sharp
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Public Relations Committee Chair: Robert Craig
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Strategic Planning Committee Chair: Lillian Mesner
-
ITE Section Chairs and Chairs-Elect
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Information Systems Section
- Chair: Jean Crampon
Chair-Elect: Karalyn Kavanaugh
Government Information Section
-
Chair: Joyce Shields Baker
Chair Elect: Open
Digital Content Section
-
Chair: Seymour Satin
Chair-Elect: Carolyn Ruby
Programming/Systems Analysis & Design Section
-
Chair: Open
Chair-Elect: Open
Technical Services Section
-
Chair: Connie Sheridan
Chair-Elect: Erlinda Compton
Virtual Section
-
Chair: Libby Trudell
Chair-Elect: Ty Webb
Webmaster Section
-
Chair: P. Michael McCulley
Chair-Elect: Open
- Guest Speaker:
- Manasco introduced the winner of the 1997/98 ITE Student Essay Award,
Una Hildebrandt, a University of Maryland graduate. Hildebrandt's topic
was The Intranet as Opportunity. The text of her speech will be
posted on the ITE web site and published in b/ITE.
- ADJOURNMENT:
-
The meeting was adjourned at 1:00 p.m.
Respectively Submitted,
Lynne Bidwell, Secretary
June 1998
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