MLA Academic and Research Libraries Division (ARLD)

Board Meeting, 10/18/02

 

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

 

Action Items:

Karen – ask Allison for the demographic breakdown of attendees, i.e. public or academic librarians

Karen – send thank you notes and evaluation summaries to the ARLD speakers

Julie – contact Jerilyn Veldof and make other arrangements for the first metro Instruction Dialogues.

Jane Ann – contact Kristi Tornquist about hosts and a speaker for an Instruction Dialogues at St. Cloud State.

Joe – assist in finding a speaker for the MNSU Mankato Instruction Dialogues

All – think about potential speakers for ARLD Day

Laura Dale and Laurel – gather nominations.

 

The minutes from the August 16, 2002 meeting were approved and the agenda was adopted.

 

OLD BUSINESS

 

1.     MLA Conference Program Evaluation – Karen Fisher and all. In general the conference evaluations were positive. Some suggestions that were gleaned from the evaluations: inexperienced speakers should follow more experienced ones; hand-outs with space for note taking are useful; visuals, especially for programs describing physical spaces, are a must; a variety of levels within a topic should be offered. Karen will send an official thank you to the speakers and include comments from the evaluations.

 

2.     Instruction Dialogues – Jane Ann. We have had several volunteers to host an Instruction Dialogues: MSU Mankato (Joan Roca); St. Cloud State (Renee Rude); UM Duluth (Liz Johnson); Minneapolis Technical College (Tom Eland was volunteered); and UM Twin Cities (Julie Kelly). Julie will arrange a November Instruction Dialogues in the Twin Cities, possibly in the MLA suites.

 

3.     ARLD Day Planning – Jane Ann. April 25h at UMN Duluth. Wendy Lougee will most likely be the keynote speaker with the topic “Academic Libraries: Visions and Nightmares.” A proposed schedule and topics follow:

 

10:00-11:15 Keynote Speaker

11:15-12:00 Lunch

12:00-12:30 Poster Sessions

12:30-1:45 Break Out Sessions

1:45-2:00 Refreshments

2:00-3:30 Break Out Sessions

Break Out Topics:

“Games Academics Play – Faculty Librarian Relationships” (potential speakers: Lars Christensen and Alex Yard, Winona State

 

“Computing Services in Libraries – Different Languages, Different Cultures” (potential speakers: Joan Roca, Kristi Tornquist, Liz Johnson, an IT person)

 

“Generational Differences in Libraries: Recruitment and Preserving Institutional Memory”

 

“Library Organizational Structures in an Age of Change”

 

NEW BUSINESS

 

4.     Election – Laura Dale and Laurel will be the nominating committee. Julie will send out a call for nominations on the ARLD listserv.

 

5.     ACRL 2005 – Karen Fischer. For the next meeting.

 

6.     Next meeting is November 22.