ALA General Meeting

January 23, 2006

• 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
o Introduction of chairs

Lecture = Sonya Green
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!