Executive Board
May 2, 2003
Via Videoconference
Alexander Library, New Brunswick
Robeson Library, Camden
Dana Library, Newark
Rutgers
University
Present: Barbara Belicose, Vibiana Bowman, Ruth Hamann, Robert Lackie,
Mary Mallery (from New Brunswick), Fran Kaufmann, Nicole Cooke (from Newark), Julie Still, Pat Fazio (from Camden)
Call to Order: 10:02am
Minutes: Minutes of the March 7, 2003 meeting were passed.
President’s Report –
Vibiana Bowman
Next Meeting - Will be a joint meeting of outgoing and incoming boards. The current chairs of all committees will be contacted to send a list of committee chairs for 2003-2004 in time for the June 13 meeting to be held at Rutgers, New Brunswick. Vibiana will book the small conference room, Alexander Library and bring refreshments. Please contact Vib if you need a parking permit. Please bring any forms, handouts, stationery that should be passed on to your successor. Julie now has care of the chapter banner.
NJLA Spring Conference – Vib thanked everyone for their hard work in bringing everything together for the chapter sponsored programs and the awards luncheon. The speakers and programs were very good.
ACRL National Conference – Vib and Luis attended the conference in April in Charlotte, NC. The program on Marketing Academic Libraries was excellent. Vib will be happy to share materials. Vib, Luis, and Sue Rosenberg have been asked to speak on the topic at the Delaware Valley Chapter of ACRL chapter at the end of May. Vib also wants to send a marketing program proposal to VALE for the annual conference. The national conference was very worthwhile because the focus was on academic libraries. Ruth mentioned that the poster sessions were difficult to find because they were interspersed with vendors. Ruth led a roundtable. This is a good way to exchange ideas. We might want to try this for some of our programming at the NJLA Conference or the Academic Librarians Symposium. Vib mentioned a good program on diversity. Debbie Malone agreed to highlight our chapter’s activities in Chapter Topics.
NJLA Executive Board Update – Mary Mallery (NJLA CUS Liaison)
The NJLA Executive Board met on April 14 at the
Princeton Public
Library.
Pat Hannon of Emerson Public Library is the new President. The
2003 NJLA Conference was very successful. There
were 962 attendees, the
largest number in 10 years. Heidi Cramer and the
Conference Committee
members were congratulated on a job well done. The NJLA Exec. Board
voted to endorse ALA's position on the Patriot Act.
The ALA Resolution
on the USA Patriot Act and Related Measures That
Infringe on the Rights
of Library Users is on their Web site at the
following (long) URL:
http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Our_Association/Offices/Intell
ectual_Freedom3/Statements_and_Policies/IF_Resolutions/Resolution_on_the
_USA_Patriot_Act_and_Related_Measures_That_Infringe_on_the_Rights_of_Lib
The listing of how other states are supporting the
ALA resolution is on
the ALA Web site at:
http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Our_Association/Offices/Intell
ectual_Freedom3/IF_Groups_and_Committees/State_IFC_Chairs/State_IFC_in_A
ction/USA_Patriot_Act_Resolutions.htm
The new ALA website was discussed. The organizational structure is
better, but the URL's are very long and there are
no redirects to new
pages on the site. The Exec. Board voted to endorse
William Paterson
University in applying to be the location of the
2004 Arbuthnot Lecture
with Ursula K. Le Guin. Information about the lecture is on the ALA Web
site at:
http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/ALSC/Awards_and_Scholarships1/
Literary_and_Related_Awards/Arbuthnot_Honor_Lecture_Award/2004_Lecture/2
The NJLA Finance Committee will meet to draft the
FY04 Budget to present
at the next NJLA Exec. Board meeting at Morris
County Library on May 20.
The Orientation Meeting for new NJLA Executive
Board members and
Committee and Section Chairs will be held on June
17 at the East
Brunswick Public Library.
Committee Reports
Technology – Barbara
Belicose
The process of judging the Technology Award went very well. Everyone liked the idea of having all applicants present their work before the judging. It was mentioned in Agenda, the Rutgers University Libraries newsletter. Barbara will be retiring as chair of the committee. Thank you Barbara for your hard work.
User Education- Robert Lackie
The E-Classroom Workshop on May 21 has about 24 registrees so far. The workshop has been publicized on listservs and in the chapter newsletter. Folders, tote bags and other goodies will be given to each participant.
Newsletter – Nicole Cooke and Pat Fazio.
The next newsletter will be sent out in the Fall 2003.
Membership –
Discussion of NJLA and ALA/ACRL membership relationships.
This should be discussed and clarified in the Fall.
Old Business - Fran and Vib composed a letter of thanks to Marianne Gaunt, Rutgers University Librarian. The assistance of the library directors and media services staff at all three campuses was acknowledged.
Mary Mallery will be happy to put PowerPoint presentations from the NJLA Conference on the What’s New section of the Chapter website. After the June meeting, Fran will send the list of the 2003-2004 Chapter Executive Board and Committee Chairs to Mary to post on the Chapter website.
Thank you – Ruth
thanked Vibiana for her hard work and good ideas as president.
Next Meeting – See above. Julie Still, incoming President will decide about scheduling summer meetings.
Adjournment - 11:00am
Respectfully submitted,
Fran Kaufmann, Secretary