Annual Business Meeting Minutes Laurel Kristick Held at the Westin Hotel, Los Angeles, CA, on Tuesday, June 11, 2002 Introduction of Board (Kris Fowler)
Announcements (Kris and Karen) Secretary's Report (Laurel) Treasurer's Report (Michael) Selected Committee Reports (Kris, unless otherwise indicated): Public Relations International Relations Committee N.B. Elizabeth Knight (eknight@ups.edu) sent the following thank you note after the meeting: PAM Bulletin Membership Professional Development (James Manasco) Mentoring Subcommittee (Emily Poworoznek) Strategic Planning (Greg Youngen) Awards SLA Hall of Fame PAM Achievement Award Brenda is a long-time PAM member—close to 25 years. Within the Division, Brenda has held many important posts, including Chair, head of Strategic Planning Committee for several years, Bulletin Editor, Secretary, Nominating Committee, Government Relations, and she led the first Astronomy Workshop, the precursor to the Astronomy Roundtable. Beyond these offices, Brenda has made unique contributions to the Division, such as the creation of the PAM International Membership Award during her term as Chair; creation of the Member’s Corner of the PAM Bulletin; and spearheading preparation and presentation for PAM at the SLA Global 2000 Conference in England. Brenda Corbin’s dedication to librarianship is evident in the collections and services of her U.S. Naval Observatory Library, which serves as the de facto national library for astronomy. She has been recognized for her organization of the first LISA meeting, and she has continued to be involved with each of these international conferences for astronomy librarians, and maintains contact with astronomy librarians around the world. Brenda’s mentoring has helped many of us—-she is always willing to share her experience and broad knowledge of the literature as well as her thoughtful approach to difficult questions. More information on the PAM Achievement Award is available on the PAM Web site.
PAM Division Award Dr. Gardner has developed technologies which promote accessibility of electronic information by people with print disabilities, including low vision, blindness, and dyslexia. Products include the TRIANGLE, a computer program for reading and doing science and mathematics, the Accessible Graphing Calculator, which is capable of displaying graphs or other sets of data both visually and audibly as a tone graph, and the TIGER printer, which prints computer text in Braille and can also emboss graphics. Those who use this equipment point out that the projects Dr. Gardner and his Science Access Project Team have developed and are working on are doing a lot to expand the availability of scientific information to researchers and students with visual and learning disabilities, in libraries and in the classroom and lab. More information on the award is available on the PAM Web site.
Election (Mitchell Brown, presentation of slate)
laurel.kristick@orst.edu
Sponsor: American Physical Society (APS)
No-host dinner arrangements.
Call for volunteers–-Roundtable moderators needed for NYC; committee membership opportunities; possible library users program at NYC needs coordinators and possible guests (e.g., faculty members, researchers on editorial boards, savvy electronic resource users).
2001 Business Meeting minutes were printed in the August 2001 Bulletin; 2002 Business Meeting minutes will be printed in the August 2002 Bulletin.
Report was printed in the May 2002 Bulletin. PAM had $20,000 in sponsorship last year; less this year because of economic conditions. Had a $5,000 net for conference last year, this went to reserve fund, so PAM now has one year’s reserve; will break even on conference this year.
Hospitality
Thanks to Elaine Adams and committee for arranging many PAM events in LA.
Thanks to Fritz Whitcomb for producing PAM's conference schedule ("dance cards"), etc.; a straw poll of members was taken regarding PAM logo; PAM Board will explore logo possibilities to be discussed by PAM members.
Thanks to Zahra Kamarei and the members of the committee, especially for arranging, with Brenda Corbin's assistance, the session "Information Access in Developing Countries."
I'd just like to thank the International Relations Committee of PAM and Zahra Kamarei for inviting me to participate in the "Information Access in Developing Countries" session at SLA in LA. And I would like to thank the committee for their financial support. Without that help, I would not have been able to attend the conference.
As a fairly new member of SLA and PAM, I was impressed with the division; it's a very organized, friendly and supportive group. I felt very welcome. I met a lot of people, and I appreciate the power of having an international network of fellow librarians just an email away. Thanks again, PAM and IRC for everything.
Thanks to Cynthia Holt for work done over last 4 years in various editorial capacities.
Distributed 2001 PAM membership directory, printed by AMS; talked to new and lapsed members throughout year; June 3 PAM membership 216 – 27 non-US members, new South African member, after conference new membership directory; PAM members should check membership data on SLA Web site, make necessary changes, and notify committee of any changes.
The Continuing Education half day course "Let’s Get Physical" was a success; there was enough material on the topic for a full day course.
Polled participants in program this year, 20 people in program; got great ideas for supporting mentoring pairs; University of British Columbia students discussion on PAMnet; six conference buddies paired up at LA conference.
Gave highlights from this summary report. PAM is in third year of 1999-2002 strategic plan; gave highlights of progress on points in the plan; the draft progress report has been shared with the Board and will be posted on the PAM Web site so members can give feedback; discussed process for producing next 3-year plan, which should be published in the November Bulletin.
PAM International Membership Award
Kris introduced 2002 award winner Sunita Barve, Head Librarian, National Center for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA), Pune, India. See the February 2002 issue of the PAM Bulletin for details on this award.
Kris introduced Dick Funkhouser (now retired from Mathematical Sciences Library, Purdue University), a new inductee into the SLA Hall of Fame.
Molly White (designee of Awards Committee) presented the award to Brenda Corbin, U.S. Naval Observatory Library.
Molly White presented the award to Dr. John Gardner, Professor of Physics and Director of the Science Access Project, Oregon State University.
The Nominating Committee members submitted the previously-announced slate; no write-in candidates were submitted. Slate:
Call for voice vote—carried unanimously.
Final Announcements
Thank you from Karen Croneis to Kris Fowler for the excellent job she did as Chair.
David Stern—-students of library school have been monitoring PAMnet as an example of an effective communication tool.
Brenda Corbin—-seeks solicitations for Member’s Corner column for PAM Bulletin.
Mitchell Brown—-U. Pennsylvania is looking for a mathematics/physics librarian.
Adjourned the meeting at 8:20 a.m.
Photos taken of board and award winners.
