ALA General Meeting Minutes
18 February 2005
Call To OrderPresident Marc Gartler called the meeting to order at 5:16 pm. An attendance sheet was passed around for those present to sign. President Marc Gartler spoke about the new format for meetings and welcomed Al Kagan, the evening's speaker. Al is the
Minutes from January were approved with no changes.
Treasurer's Report
Checking: $
Spring Semester Meetings and Tentative Speakers:
Speakers & Events this Semester:
Joyce Saricks on Readers Advisory (Apr 4 or 11)
Committee ReportsFundraising - ? New Chair ? (Brian): Insert notes here Field Trip - Jenny Benevento (Marc):
Rare Book Library Tour
American Library Association Headquarters Tour
Everyone cancelled on the Anheuser-Busch tour, so we can
re-schedule. When would people be interested in going? These
are the times that are unavailable: Three LEEPers in the Chicago area are going to help out with tours there. Social - Cheryl Costello (Mary Kate):
Lecture - Adam Groves & Annette Lesak (Tim): Upcoming Events:
-Michael Gorman, President-Elect of the ALA, late April 2005. ACRL - Annie Paprocki (Marc): An exerpt of the minutes from the ACRL meeting, 7 February:
Introduction of officers: Email Annie if you plan on attending the ACRL conference. This will give us the opportunity to organize roommates and share information. Mark will look into the ACRL@GSLIS button possibility. Mark Lindner will look into improving our web page.
We discussed ideas for future speakers. Upcoming Meetings--Mark your calendars!
Monday March 7 @ 5:15
Other upcoming get-togethers: Community Outreach - Lisa Weinstein and Suzy Piel (Brian): Our next meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 24 in the Center for Children's Books at 5:15 PM.
The Community Outreach committee is moving right along with the Pavilion Foundational School project. We were able to collect over $280 in donations standing outside of Walmart at the end of Feb. We since have spent about $200 of that money at the CCB's booksale, where we bought 2 boxes of books to add to the Pavilion's library. Our next phase is to compile a "wish list" of books through amazon.com and then request that individuals purchase one of these books to donate to the Pavilion library. We will be promoting this to the GSLIS community and to area bookstores. Our next meeting will be April 14 at 5:15 in the CCB. We plan to finish organizing this leg of the project and work on implementing a simple organizational and filing system of these books for the school. This project will be completed during finals week when we are able to spend time during the regular school day to paint the library and bring in the books. If anyone would like to help with this project, donate books or other supplies please contact Lisa Weinstein (lweinste@uiuc.edu) or Suzy Piel (piel@uiuc.edu). LEEP - ? No Chair (Dyanna): Insert notes here Conference - Amber Prentiss (Dyanna):
International - Jaclyn Bedoya (Mary Kate): We have our international student directory compiled, and hopefully that's getting sent to Diana for inclusion on the webpage. We have an international student panel scheduled for April 13 at 5:15. We have a workshop about helping international students scheduled for April 18 at 5:15 in 109 GSLIS. So far we have three speakers lined up. We're putting out a call for volunteers for Professor Boyd Rayward's conference scheduled for the first week of May. Mark is getting details & will get back to us.
Professional Development - Katie Kopchok (Candle): Our "Conference Attendence 101" session is this Monday, Feb 28th in 126 GSLIS from 1-2pm. Seven, possibly eight, presenters will attend. It will be archived for LEEP as well. Lorelle Swader, the HR & Recruitment Director who takes care of Prof Devt for ALA National, will be coming to speak here on March 28th from 12:30-1:30 pm in room 126 GSLIS. We hope to have a series brown bags that would be tutorials/intro's to courses here at GSLIS. A one hour session that would give an introduction to a course that is available the next semester, so people can decide if they want to enroll in the course. We will be contacting professors to see if there is interest in this. Another Prof Devt Committee mtg will be scheduled after the Conference 101 session. New Business
Dates to note & Announcements:
2/23, 2pm, Field Trip to Rare Book & Special Collections
AdjournmentThe meeting was adjourned at approximately 6:17 pm.
Minutes taken by secretary Mary Kate Eisemann |