ARLD Board
Meeting
May 27, 2005
Minutes
Present: Victoria Peters, Stephanie McConnell, Karen Docherty, Julie Kelly, Anne Mackereth, Jim Newsome
Karen called the meeting to order.
The minutes of the April 29th meeting were approved as submitted.
1. MLA Conference Planning Update- Victoria Peters has sent out acceptance notices to the groups whose programs were accepted, and rejection notices to the others. Two groups have so far responded to her with their program logistics, equipment needs, biographies, etc. She will send reminders to those who have not yet responded. Three poster sessions have also been received so far. Poster session logistics were discussed. At the next MLA Board meeting Karen Docherty will solicit opinions on expanding the poster sessions to other groups beyond ARLD. We discussed whether to have the displays left up during the entire conference. We will definitely want them staffed during the breaks. We will revisit this issue in July.
Victoria worked with Mark Reidell to get all of the sessions listed correctly in the preliminary program (done).
The Board went through the accepted sessions from other MLA divisions, sections, and roundtables to see if there were some we could co-sponsor. A list of likely candidates was created. Karen Docherty will send a note to the MLA Conference Program Planning Group, offering to co-sponsor these, while soliciting other groups who may wish to act as co-sponsors for some of our programs.
2. ARLD Procedures Manual
– tabled
3. Professional Associations
and a Response to Red Lake and school violence
Karen Docherty presented the MLA Board with our wish to do something for Red Lake’s library. The MLA Board suggested that MEMO be contacted. Karen will contact them to get their thoughts on this.
4. Strategic Marketing for
Academic Libraries for Fall 2005?
Susan Motin is willing to do another Marketing Workshop in the Twin Cities, like the highly successful one in St. Cloud. Anne Mackereth volunteered to host it at Northwestern Health Sciences University. Potential dates were discussed, and several in October and November were selected as possibilities. Motin will be contacted to determine her preference. There will be a limit of 20 participants. Anne M. will also contact a Hamline librarian to see if she wishes to contribute to the workshop.
5. ARLD Day 2006
Karen Docherty contacted the Mn. Landscape Arboretum, and discussed prices and spaces for holding the meeting on April 28th. We reviewed the space and pricing options and came up with a plan for which spaces we would like. Karen will get back to the Arb with our preferences. We hope to use the larger new auditorium for part of the day as it seats 100 more people than last year’s main room, which was a bit cramped for the keynote presentation. Program ideas were discussed: Gaming, Visual Literacy, a MEMO/ MLA Update, NextGen, etc. were all raised as possibilities. Karen will continue to work on this with our input.
6. MLA/MEMO Joint Task Force
on Information Literacy
Julie Kelly reported on the proposal to create and administer an information literacy survey at the first-year college student level. This project will attempt to learn the impact of having a school media specialist in K-12 settings on students’ information literacy levels as they enter higher education. The Board approved the idea. Julie will create a planning team to further pursue this. There are grant opportunities for funding, and the possibility of publication at the end of the process. We will also need to recruit a group of colleges and universities in Minnesota willing to have the instrument administered. Julie will be meeting with the MEMO/MLA group on June 10th, and will report back to us on the outcomes of that meeting. A logical time to administer the survey is in the Fall of 2006, if all goes as planned.
7. ARLD Elections and
Officers
The election process for 2006 ARLD officers was discussed. There will not need to be a ballot created before September. Therefore, at our July meeting, a nominating committee will be formed. A call for nominations will also be an agenda item at the September annual business meeting. And a slate of candidates will need to be finalized by mid-October.
The non-elected positions on the ARLD Board were discussed. As the result of this discussion, Victoria Peters will become a team-member with Scott Marsalis on the ARLD Dialogues planning group for the remainder of this year.
8. Save the Dates Memo-
A memo to members will go out at the end of the summer reminding members to save a variety of dates when things will be happening during the upcoming year.
Next Meeting- Friday, July 29th,
12:30-3pm. MLA Office.
Respectfully submitted,
Jim Newsome
Secretary