ACRL/NJ
Chapter
Executive
Board Meeting
Minutes
Alexander
Library,
Present: Nicole Cooke, Ruth Hamann,
Frances Kaufmann, Mary Mallery, Leslie Murtha, Penny
Page, Steve Shapiro
Call to order: The meeting was called to order at
Minutes: Minutes of the Feb. 6 meeting were
approved. There was discussion regarding
the Distinguished Service Award and the section bylaws (as mentioned in the
Feb. minutes). We need to clarify
procedures and criteria for the award.
The latest version of the bylaws is from 1998. Mary will get a copy of these from the NJLA
archives and bring to the May 7 meeting for review and updating.
President’s report – Fran
Kaufmann
(for Julie Still)
Our
pilot project to get sponsorship for minority student attendance at the NJLA
conference is going forward. The NJLA Professional Development Committee likes
this idea; they want to take it over for next year and expand it to cover those
interested in any type of library. For this year we have a donor to sponsor two
lunches, and NJLA will waive registration for the participants that day. Fran has recruited one participant, Damian Kelley,
from Seton Hall (graduated last May and may be applying to SCILS). Our lunch speaker, Tyrone Cannon, has agreed
to participate in an informal networking session to be held in the general
breakfast area at
Julie
and Fran will be setting up the agenda for the conference luncheon. We will be
presenting three awards: Technology,
Research, and Distinguished Service.
Committee chairs should let Fran know right away if they need award certificates. Let Julie know if you have any special
equipment needs for your programs.
Julie
forwarded email to Fran regarding our budget request for 2005 fiscal year. Last year we received $725; so far we have
spent $245 for printing and mailing the fall issue of the newsletter. NJLA has indicated that they don’t want to
continue paying postage for these activities, and they are urging sections to
move to electronic publication on the website.
The board discussed the implications of this for our newsletter; it
would be difficult to limit to section members if it is posted on our
website. Also, would members be notified
via email when an issue was posted? NJLA
now has all member email addresses for electronic notification, but we also
have ACRL members that aren’t in NJLA.
In addition, the newsletter functions as a good recruiting tool; we need
print copies to take to conferences and other programs. For these reasons the board agreed that we
should request money for printing and mailing our newsletter for next year (two
issues per year). The board also agreed
we should request money for printing a professional version of our chapter
brochure. This serves as a good
communications and publicity tool. Fran
will ask the print shop at Seton Hall for estimates, and she will contact Pat Fazio for estimates also.
Our total budget request is due to the NJLA Finance Committee by March
17.
The
board discussed possible meeting locations for the next year. The ongoing road work on Rt. 18 in
Committee reports:
Our
slate of candidates for next year was submitted, and the ballots have gone
out. Marc Meoa
from TCNJ is running for Vice President/President Elect; Penny Page will run
again for secretary and Ruth Hamann for
Member-at-Large.
The
last NJLA Executive Board meeting was Feb. 17 at SCILS. Several SCILS students attended, and the Dean
of SCILS along with the chair of the Library Studies Department talked about
their programs. This was well-received
by the board members and will probably be repeated next year. The proposed strategic plan was presented; it
should be finalized at the next meeting.
The ALA Councilor talked about happenings at Midwinter and upcoming events
for the annual
The
spring issue is now at the printer and should be out to members well before the
conference. This issue includes
highlights of upcoming conference programs.
Pat Fazio will bring some copies to the
conference for handouts.
The
committee has made more progress on their website (still under
construction). They are exploring the
possibility of doing a program around mid-June on opening lines of
communication with school librarians regarding information literacy. This might be a collaborative program with
the Central Jersey Library Coop (they are looking into this issue also), or
there might be separate complementary programs.
The committee is sponsoring two programs at the NJLA conference—one on
the “Immersion Experience” from last summer (Beth Bloom and Nicole Cooke) and a
panel on programming for first-year students (Ruth Hamann,
Carol Nurse, and Eileen Stec).
Technology Committee – Mary Mallery (for Belicose and Deng)
The
presentations by the candidates for the Technology Innovation Award were held
at
Research Committee – Karen
Hartman
(report submitted by email)
The
committee selected a winner for the annual Research Award (to be announced at
the conference luncheon). Along with the
award winner, four additional presentations were selected for the Research
Forum on Tuesday afternoon, Apr. 20.
Old Business:
There is no new update on the Libraries 2012 program,
which is currently scheduled for May 26 at Fairleigh
Dickinson in
Fran will send out the letters to the winner and other nominees this week. At the May meeting we will clarify criteria and define procedures for selecting award winners.
New Business:
Send any program descriptions (including pictures) to Mary Mallery to post on our website.
Upcoming
meetings: May 7 and June 4.
Meeting adjourned
Respectfully
submitted,
Penny
Page
Secretary