ARLD Board Minutes

December 15, 2006

MLA conference room, 2:00am-4:30pm

 Agenda Additions

ACRL Legislative Liaison? (Robin)

Introductions

Approval of October 27 Minutes – delayed until January meeting

Old Business

1.     Organizational issues

a.  Election results and new Board members

Kristen (member communications); Robin (Chair Elect); Jim (Chair); Victoria (Past Chair)

b.  Open positions (volunteers?) 

·        Legislative liaison – Robin and Karen are making a webinar with FAQ approach to attending legislative day and what to do (where to park, how to talk to your legislator, what if I don't know all of the platform issues,…)

Robin will write up something about the position to be sent to Victoria, who will forward to Carla Pfahl, Deb Bergeron, Gretchen Pyle, and Jane Ann Nelson to see if they are interested.  Michael Bloomberg could be contacted (by Jim) for more ideas if none of the above are able to serve.

·        web person – Deb is interested in continuing this too as her first pick; Victoria will contact Carla Pfahl to see if she is interested

·        ARLD Dialogues - we would like someone who can come to meetings occasionally; Jim will check with Kim Clark and Lynne Weber.

·        LIS school liaison – Lynne Weber will continue

·        Stephanie is interested in continuing; we will discuss possible opportunities at next meeting (event planner?  etc. depending on who else can continue).

Related:  MLA hosted reception for St. Kate's graduates.  Jim was there and announced that there may be some volunteer opportunities.  He will let us know if he hears anything.  15 students graduated and were given a certificate granting them 1 free year in MLA.  ARLD volunteer opportunities:  helping with ARLD and MLA Day.  Wiki and blog??  Is it worth updating?  Put on agenda for January or Feb.

2.     ARLD Day – Victoria reviewed spring 2006 event for new board members

Monday April 30, 2007 is this years' event

a.          Venue:  Earle Brown Conference Center in Brooklyn Center (Park?); budget review (Victoria's handout); 2007 estimate now $1500 for room rental-includes two breakout rooms; min for food and drink is $2000 (spent $2030 last year) plus tax of 25% = $675.  Had $500 sponsorship for food last year, which included registrations.  Final last year was in the black but goes to MLA.  Victoria will be checking out venue and rooms, and looking at menu.  Registration fee $60 (was $50 last year).  EBSCO and LexisNexis interested in sponsorship; we should check with CSA too.

b.          Theme and Keynote speakers

Discussed ideas from last time:  Power of persuasion (from B3) & good presentation skills; K-12 Higher Ed/Info Lit connection; Cody Hanson's Podcasting session; metadata – practical, hands on; web/Library 2.0; institutional repositories; Digitization & institutional repositories together; New technology-Web 2.0 together; Also; varying information tech skills for students and related, information literacy skills in business – we could bring in library school students.  Idea:  Chris Anderson (Long Tail guy) – editor of Wired, Kate saw him, he is very good speaker …Joan Lippincott (former CNI) talking about new users.

Final suggestions: 

·        John Riedl at U of MN – Kate will check informally and see if he is available and how to contact him officially with "Find More Like This…" as a topic. Victoria will formally extend invitation to speaker.

·        Susan Gibbons, U Rochester (Anthropology) as another idea re: new faculty/library collaborations, or researching research habits.

c.  Timeline:  (Review of procedures manual)

• Right after New Year's, save the date reminder and announcement of theme and call for speakers.
• Working title of conference:  Find More Like This:…
• Speaker has to be firm by January meeting. 
• Poster call should go out by the end of February.
• Registration goes out last week of March, first week of April (MINITEX/U Libraries CD conference is May 14, also ILL conference sometime in May)

3.     Library School liaisons (Weber and Newsome)

a.     Update: Still trying to put together letter & brochure for LIS students; plan to send out after next meeting.  Were waiting for new student dues to come out, and now want to wait until after break.  Barb is involved, Jim will contact her about getting a new draft out.  Kate will continue as liaison with MLA

MLA Board meeting topics

• New budget approved (changes to travel)
• PLA 2008 meeting in Twin Cities, which usually negatively impacts local library association, so MLA gets to do preconference (on Pre-kindergarten literacy – Kathleen James) and keep the revenue.
• Legislative platform was discussed; it is heavily public library oriented
• March 28 is Library Legislative Day
• May 1-2 is National Legislative Library Day
• MLA Foundation (primarily non-librarians) liaison selection discussed

New Business

• Review of Board procedures manual for January/February agenda
• Deb will send out web site revisions for our feedback and is interested in reviewing at our next meeting.  She wants to continue web work if possible.

• ACRL Legislative Advocates – Robin – New position; 2 year term; selected/appointed, not self-selected; extensive list of duties; extensive qualifications and responsibilities.

 Next Meetings

CLIC suite, 2nd floor

January 12, 2007    2:00 - 4:30

February 16, 2007    2:15 - 4:30

Tentative:  3rd Friday of each month

Attendees:  Victoria Peters, Melissa Prescott, Robin Ewing, Kristen Mastel (meye0539@umn.edu) (MINITEX) new member communications, Karen Docherty, Jim Newsome, Linda Eells, Kate McCready, Deb Bergeron, Stephanie McConnell