MLA Academic and Research Libraries Division (ARLD)

Board meeting, 5/17/02

 

Attending: Laura Dale Bischof, Karen Fischer, Laurel Haycock, Julie Kelly, Jane Ann Nelson

 

Action Items:

 

Julie – will compose a statement about the list serve for the web site.

Jane Ann and Laura Dale – plan a Best Practices session for this summer.

Julie – edit Joe’s memo about the Best Practices sessions. We will solicit contact regional persons this way.

Jane Ann & group – decide when to have the ARLD breakfast

All – select which sessions to moderate.

 

The minutes from the 3/22/02 meeting were approved and the agenda was adopted.

 

1.     OLD BUSINESS

A. The Listserv – Julie has a list of Minnesota ACRL members, and the names have been entered into the listserv. The listserv launch was successful, and only about 15 people have unsubscribed. Some future announcements for the listserv will be an invitation to join MLA and ARLD and to announce upcoming programs. Julie will write something about the listserv for the MLA/ARLD web site.

 

B. Best Practices in Instruction. Joe Mount will organize a session for the Southeast and Julie for the North. They will aim for sessions in October. Jane Ann and Laura Dale will plan a summer session to be hosted by Augsburg.  We might use the listserv to identify contact people for each region. There will be about 30 minutes of programming/presentations followed up by discussion and sharing of ideas. Joe contributed a draft memo describing the instruction sessions, and Julie will revise it for the listserv announcement. We tentatively decided to rename the program “ARLD Instruction Club” instead of “Best Practices in Instruction.”

 

C. MLA conference program planning – Karen Fischer brought near final copies of the 11 ARLD sessions accepted for the annual conference. 6 programs are on hold, and coordinators should inform the participants about this. We need to submit which sessions we are willing to moderate. We also need to determine when to have the ARLD breakfast, maybe an ARLD lunch.

 

2.     NEW BUSINESS

A. We need to devise a plan to contact and recruit new librarians to our organization.

 

3.     Adjournment

  1. There will be a meeting on June 7th..

 

 

Submitted by Laura Dale Bischof

June 5, 2002