NJLA College and University Section /ACRL-NJ Chapter

NJLA College and University Section /ACRL-NJ Chapter

Executive Board Meeting, April 14, 2000 Minutes

Welcome: President Mary Mallery called the meeting to order at 10:10AM at the Kilmer Library, Rutgers University. Present were: Steven Shapiro (Vice President/President-Elect), Luis Rodriguez (Past President), Maureen Gorman (NJLA Liaison), Deborah Sheesley (Chair, User Education Committee), Andrea MacRitchie (Co-Editor, Newsletter), Heather Craven (Co-Editor, Newsletter), Penny Page (Chair, Research Committee), Anne Ciliberti (Distinguished Service Award Committee), Pamela Holmes (Member-at-Large).

President’s Report:

Approval of Minutes: The Minutes for the February 11^th meeting were approved with corrections.

NJLA Spring Conference Luncheon: The information about the CUS luncheon is incorrect as listed in the NJLA Spring Conference program and as posted on the NJLA Web site. Mary will send correct information to Pat Tumulty for a published Errata to be distributed at the NJLA Spring Conference during registration.

College and University Section Web Site Update: Mary distributed copies of the new CUS Web site at http://www.njla.org/njacrl/ . Suggestions included adding "Membership" and "News" sections.

ACRL Chapter Topics article, due April 21^st: The article will announce the Research Award winner, the Distinguished Service Award winner, describe NJLA Spring Conference programs sponsored by the User Education Committee, the Technology Committee, the Reference Committee and the Executive Board. Also, Mary asked Luis to send her information about the Job Shadowing program that he initiated this year.

Section Accomplishments for NJLA: Mary circulated a draft of the Section Accomplishments 1999-2000, which she will present at the NJLA Executive Board on April 18^th.

Chapter Proposal for ACRL 2001 National Conference Program: The chapter will sponsor a panel session on "Academic Libraries and Changes in Higher Education Accreditation Criteria." Larry Hardesty and Richard Sweeney have agreed to participate, and David Bickford , the librarian for Phoenix University, has been asked to be a panel member. The proposal is due May 1^st.

Vice President’s Report:

ACRL-DV/ACRL-NJ Joint Program on Scholarly Communication: Steve gave a synopsis of the joint program at the Scholarly Communication Center at Rutgers University, which we sponsored with the ACRL Delaware Valley Chapter on March 2^nd. There was a good turnout, and we are encouraged to have more joint programs with other ACRL chapters in the tri-state area.

NJLA Executive Board Liaison Report:

Reviewed libraries funding bills before the State assembly.
NJLA needs comments from librarians on the ALA core values statement. Look at URL: http://www.ala.org/congress/corevalues/
Members of the NJLA Exec. Board suggested that CUS spread out their programs across the three days of the NJLA Spring Conference so that there isn’t so much conflict between CUS programs during the one-day schedule that we traditionally have.
At the NJLA Annual Meeting, there will be a resolution in honor of the memory of Stanley Nash, former President of NJLA CUS/ACRL NJ and active member of NJLA.

User Education Committee (Deborah Sheesley, Chair):

The Lynne Livingston program at NJLA Spring Conference has been changed to Thursday. During August, the committee will sponsor a program on Learning Theory at Caldwell College. The proposal for a program on Information Literacy sponsored by the ACRL Initiatives Fund diminished its funding request to $2,500 to accommodate the grant funds available. Next meeting of the User Committee will be June 1.

Technology Committee (Steve Shapiro, for Zi-yu Lin)

The Technology Committee sponsored a program on March 17^th at Brookdale Community College on the Electronic Classroom in the Library, highlighting the Altira Vision program for instructional technology in use there. The committee is also planning a workshop on FrontPage 2000 Web authoring software in the summer and another on DreamWeaver with CourseWare to create interactive tutorials; time and place for these programs to be announced on the ACALIBS listserv.

Research Committee (Penny Page, Chair)

Jana Varlejs is the recipient of the Research Award for this year. The timing at the NJLA Spring Conference for the Research Committee Forum was changed to accommodate the ACRL NJ luncheon speakers. Dan O’Connor will speak at the Research Design session. Penny announced that she is stepping down as Chair and that the new Chair of the Research Committee will be Hui-min Kuo of Kean University.

Newsletter Committee (Andrea MacRitchie and Heather Craven, Co-Editors)

The Spring CUS Newsletter has been mailed out. The editors recommended that we wait until summer to put up the Spring Newsletter on the Web site in pdf.

Nominations Committee (Mary Mallery for Aurora Ioanid)

Mary will contact the new CUS elected officials and invite them to the ACRL NJ luncheon for introduction to the membership.

Distinguished Service Award (Anne Ciliberti, Chair)

Marianne Gaunt of Rutgers University will receive the NJLA CUS/ACRL NJ Distinguished Service Award for 2000. Anne noted that there were other well-qualified nominees who should be considered for the award again in 2001.

Next Meeting

There will be a brief business meeting preceding the April 28^th luncheon panel presentation. The next meeting will be in late July or early August.

Submitted by Mary Mallery, August 3, 2000