• Introductions
• Advisor, Kathryn La Barre
• President, Candle Wester-Mittan
• Vice, TBA – will be appointed by the board
• Secretary, Katie Kopchok
• Treasurer, Julie Yen
• Electronic publicity, Annette Lesak
• Print Publicity, Shane Beers
• Information about ALA and ALA @ GSLIS
o Joining ALA National
Student membership is $25/year, comes with American Libraries magazine, opportunity to join round tables, attend Midwinter or National Conferences
• Future meetings
o Will be broadcast via LEEP
o Speakers - TBA
o Other interests or suggestions are welcome!
• Committees
o Chairs are still needed for some committees
Lecture = Sonya Green
o Introduction of chairs
Community Outreach = Lisa Weinstein
ACRL = Katie Kopchok
LEEP (Beth Larkee)
Conference = Karla Stover
Fundraising = Melissa Zilic
Field Trip = Tiffany Torbeck & Leah Hill
International = Emily Goodhue
Social = Kyle Naff & Maggie Hommel
o Sign up sheets available at meetings. Talk to the chair or a board member if you have questions or would like to join.
• Hurricane Katrina
o Plan to work with other student groups, like to adopt a library
o Looking at options and waiting for response from ALA national
• Fundraising/T-shirt sales
o Spring orders - contact Melissa (mzilik2@uiuc.edu) or pick up an order form
• LEEP Weekend
o March 4-5. We will plan a LEEP breakfast of some sort.
• Lecture Committee
o Fran Miksa - UT Austin, during LEEP weekend, cataloging
o Bill Hamer - High Strung
o Ilana Kingsley - Indexing & Abstracting, business & web librarian at Univ of Alaska Fairbanks, via LEEP
o Tom Lipinski - Legal Issues
• International Committee
o Dr. Weech will speak at an upcoming meeting.
• Announcements & Upcoming Events
o Committee chairs, send reports of minutes to Katie (kkopchok@uiuc.edu)
• Questions/Comments
o Katie: do people have preferred days/times for speakers and events? o Kathryn will set up a survey and email it out so we can find out! o FAREWELL to Mary Kate Eiseman, our prior president, who leaves us for a job in a governmental library in Washington D.C. - Congratulations!