Minnesota Library Association

ARLD Board

Meeting Minutes

January, 23, 2004

 

Present: James Caufield, Karen Docherty, Julie Kelly, Jim Newsome

 

Julie called the meeting to order at 2:45pm .

 

November and December minutes were approved. Jim will forward them to Alison Johnson, for posting on the ARLD Webpage. 

 

A.     Old Business

 

1.  ARLD Day, scheduled for Friday, April 30th was discussed.  Ken Frazier, Director of the UW-Madison Libraries has agreed to be the keynote speaker, and will discuss something to do with collection development and library values.

 

The Board brainstormed program ideas, ARLD Day scheduling, and timelines.  The following emerged.  

There will be a keynoter, a reactor panel, four breakout sessions in two time slots, and poster sessions.  Lunch and an afternoon break will also be part of the day.  The four breakout sessions were tentatively identified as 1) Collection Development with faculty and Students; 2) Collection Development and the future of Reference; 3) Collection Development and Collaboration with other libraries; and 4) the Googlization of Library Values.  Several people were identified as potential panelists, presenters, and reactors. Karen will put out a call for participation and for feedback on the program ideas, and will also put something about it on the ARLD website before our next meeting on February 12th. Karen will also put out a call for posters on February 16th, with applications due in March.  The following agenda and time slots were tentatively set:

 

9:30-10am        Registration

 

10-11:30          Keynote, Reactor Panel, and general discussion

 

11:30-Noon     Poster sessions

 

Noon-12:45     lunch

 

12:45-1:45       breakout session one: choice of either a) Collection development collaboration with faculty and students,

or b) Collection development and the future of Reference

1:45-2:15   break, stroll onto grounds if weather is good, etc.

 

2:15-3:15 breakout session two:  choice of either c) Collection Development and Collaboration between libraries, or d) Googlization of Library Values

 

There may or may not be a 3:15-3:30 wrap-up/closure time.

A timeline for ARLD Day preparations was discussed.  The keys:  We will need poster topics by Mid March, and brochures out to the academic library community in early March.

 

Alison Johnson has volunteered to help with arrangements.

 

2. Meeting Schedule:

Meeting dates and times were set for the February –May meetings, and again for September-December.  They are all Fridays. Lunches will be arranged.

2/13,    12-2:30pm

3/12,    12-2:30

4/9,      12-2:30

5/14,    12-2:30

 

Summer:  To be determined (there may not be monthly meetings)

 

9/10,    12-2:30

10/8 (at MLA in Duluth ) Time TBA

11/12, 12-2:30

12/10, 12-2:30

 

B. New Business

1.MLA Program Planning- More will be known after Karen attends the next MLA Program planning meeting.  James presented an idea for a potential keynote speaker.

 

2. Volunteers for Communications Officer/new tasks for volunteers:

Five people have come forward as volunteers to fill the unexpired term of the ARLD Communications officer.  A discussion ensued of how to make use of these five folks.  One suggestion was to have the communications officer be a shared position, with one person concentrating on the ARLD Web page, while the other does more with direct communication.  Other volunteers are needed to help organize instructional dialogues, possibly work to plan an @your library presentation, etc.  Julie will present a set of options to the five volunteers, and solicit their preferences.  Then she will get back to the Board with their responses.

 

3. Other – a. Board members present were assigned liaison duties for some of the breakout sessions:  Googlization- James and Jim; Reference Materials- Julie; Coll. Devt. Library collaboration – Karen.  Julie will work to get one of the non-present Board members to be point person for the Collaboration with faculty and students session.  Point persons are assigned to have a title and a two or three sentence abstract of the proposed session sent to Julie by January 30th.

b. Board members present should review program suggestions from past meetings (these were distributed)

 

Next meeting: MetroNet Room 317, 12-2:30pm , Friday, February 13th.  Julie will send out agenda and lunch information before the meeting.

 

Meeting adjourned at 4:46pm

 

Respectfully submitted, Jim Newsome, ARLD Secretary.