Present: Ruth Hamann, Nancy Madacsi, Julie Maginn, Mary Mallery, Marc Meola, Penny Page, Karen Topham
Call to order: 10:14 a.m.
Minutes: The minutes of the March 10 meeting were approved with two corrections (name spellings).

President’s Report — Marc Meola

• NJLA Conference — The section’s programs were well-attended. There were no formal evaluation forms, but informal feedback from the Board was positive. Marc will submit receipts for conference expenses to the NJLA office, using the form available on the NJLA website. ACRL paid most of Pam Snelson’s expenses. Marc will forward her PowerPoint to Mary Mallery for posting on the website. We will also post conference photos taken by Nicole. The NJLA blog had some feedback on the Web Usability and the Open Source programs, and we will link to these from our website.

• ACRL — We have to submit an annual report by 5/15. Marc will email committee chairs to ask for brief summaries of their activities for the past year. If possible, these should be tied to the ACRL Strategic Plan. We have also been asked to submit a report on our recent conference activities to Chapter Topics (deadline 5/12). Marc will write something on Snelson’s luncheon talk, and Mary will contribute something about the Technology Committee’s programs. Since ACRL changed their logo, we will need to get a new banner. Marc has asked Fran to check on cost and who to contact about this. We will use our ACRL funds for this; since NJLA is a 501-C3 organization, ACRL should give easier access to our funds. ACRL National is looking at Philadelphia for the 2011 conference, and they are asking for letters of approval from the contiguous chapters. Marc will respond with our approval.

• NJ Academic Librarian Blog — Marc raised the question of whether we want to discontinue the blog since NJLA now has one. The Board members who were present felt that Marc’s blog was more relevant to the needs of academic librarians and should be continued. Marc will put out a call for volunteers to help contribute and maintain it.

Committee Reports:

Technology Committee — Mary Mallery
The Technology Innovation Forum PowerPoint presentations have been posted on NJLA’s After the Conference website; we will link to them from our website. The winner of the Technology Innovation Award was Ed Corrado and his team from TCNJ for their presentation “Library Outreach and the Course Management System: Using RSS Feeds to Advertise New Library Holding.” The Committee is now working on a proposal for ACRL National 2007 (deadline 5/10) about technology innovation in NJ, which will probably include input from other states/chapters. On June 2 the Committee is sponsoring a program on Social Computing (title may change) in Forsina Hall at TCNJ from 10:00 a.m.-noon. Speakers will be Ed Corrado from TCNJ and Jim Robertson from NJIT, and the program will include such topics as blogging and folksonomy tagging. Cost will be $15.00 for members and students, and $30.00 for nonmembers. Our Executive Board will hold its June meeting at TCNJ after the program. Marc will investigate arrangements for lunch and will invite new incoming members of the Board also.

User Education Committee — Karen Topham
The Committee is sponsoring at workshop in the Student Life Center at Brookdale College on June 16, from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. The title of the program is “Captivate Your Distance Students,” and the main speaker will be Christine Herz from Gloucester County College. Cost will be $35.00, including lunch. Theo Haynes from Rutgers-Camden will be the new Committee chair.

Newsletter — Julie Maginn
Julie has taken over editorship of the newsletter from Nicole Cooke and Pat Fazio.

NJLA Liaison — Nancy Madacsi
The next meeting of the NJLA Executive Board is May 16 at Bernardsville Public Library. The new VP/President-Elect is Michele Reutty from Hasbrouck Heights. New committee chairs and section leaders are encouraged to attend the orientation that is usually held after the NJLA June business meeting (scheduled for 6/10). Nancy will pass along feedback to the Board that chairs would like to get more hands-on/how-to information at this session.

Miscellaneous:

Poster Sessions at NJLA — Several Board members felt the time slot, from 2:30-3:30, for the poster sessions was not ideal. It immediately followed the luncheon and conflicted with several good programs. Ruth Hamann did a poster session on “Who’s Counting—Using the U.S. Census to Introduce Information Literacy in a Beginning Statistics Course.” There was a complimentary write-up on this in a newsletter from the Census Bureau in NY State. We will have a webpage for the poster sessions, with abstracts and photos.

Executive Board for 2006-2007 (to take office on July 1, 2006):
President: Nicole Cooke
VP/Pres .Elect: Karen Topham
Secretary: Penny Page
Past Pres.: Marc Meola
Member-at-Large: Ruth Hamann
Member-at-Large: Julie Maginn
Job Shadowing: Julie Still
User Education: Theo Haynes
Research: Sara Harrington and Triveni Kuchi
Technology: Mary Mallery
NJLA Liaison: Nancy Madacsi

Adjournment: 11:30 a.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Penny B. Page
Secretary