The following minutes of the ACRL-Oregon Board Meeting are provided for informational purposes only. This is not intended to be a formal report.
Present:President Barbara Valentine (Linfield); Vice-President Janeanne Rockwell-Kincannon (WOU); Past-President Susan Hinken (UP); Community College Representative Theresa Yancey (CCC); Private College Representative John Repplinger (Willamette); OUS Representative Maureen Kelly (OSU-Cascades); Members-At-Large: Robin Paynter (PSU), Kris Kern (PSU), Lori Robare (UO), and Joni Roberts (Willamette); Communications Coordinator Torie Scott (PCC)
Absent: State Library Representative Robert Hulshof-Schmidt
1. Meeting Minutes – minutes of the February 17th meeting were approved.
2. Budget Report– currently in spending more than taking in, but this will change.
3. Elections - Kris Kern reported the membership list has been generated and a notice had been sent to OLA publications to advertise the opportunity to run for office. The slate should be finalized by May 1 when elections begin.
Elections Committee reviewed elections procedures and updated/changed as needed, including: examples of how elections have been done in the past, standard biographical statement format, and regularizing voting rolls so only current members eligible to vote
Slate approved as of 4/14/06:
Vice President/Chair-Elect:John Pollitz and Stephanie Michel
Board Members-At-Large: Eliz Breakstone, Cynthia R. Cunningham, Kirk Howard, Dan Kelley
4. Oregon Library Association Conference Report: John Repplinger reported ACRL sponsored session evaluations, scales and comments, and recommendations for improving next year’s conference.
Discussion ensued, with following suggestions for OLA:
- Don’t require/ask participants to provide their own equipment
- Have powerpoint presentations available on OLA website before or after conference.
Suggestions for ACRL-Board:
- Write up procedures to smooth process regarding Board approval of programs for sponsorship
- Create ACRL-Oregon website content describing the kinds of programs past participants have suggested as topics of interest
Pre-conference report: it is unclear yet whether the pre-conference made any money or not. Robin Beerbauer will send the final totals
ACRL Reception
- Roughly 30 people attended the reception this year
- Wine or water sufficient for drink choices
- The President’s Suite was a nice venue for the event
- Posting the notice in the elevator good practice
- Stand at entrance and announce it is about to happen also helps channel people to the reception
- Emphasize in future the ACRL welcomes all OLA participants, don’t have to be ACRL members
- 5:00-6:30pm a good time to have it to maximize attendance
5. OLA report: Memberclicks worked well for conference registration; will work on doing the membership renewal process through Memberclicks next.
- Will there be a form to fill out at Menucha to become a member of ACRL-Oregon?
- Currently, for people to become members they tick a box on the OLA membership form, with Memberclicks will it be possible to have our own form?
- What kinds of renewal notices will be generated to make sure members continue?
- Can use Menucha as a vehicle to publicize ACRL-Oregon (10 reasons to join flier)
6. Menucha report– Robin Paynter gave an update on vendor list to approach for financial support. Keynote address: 2 speakers, current potential speakers who could speak on the current 18-22 year old generation and technology, include: Rachel Bridgewater, Jessamyn West, and Anthony Bernier.
Other potential topics:
- Instant Messaging
- RSS feeds
- Blogs (Shaun Houston at WOU uses blogs in his geography classrooms, potential guest speak)
- Podcasting
- Gaming
Discussion on conference title, suggested titles:
- Next generation: guess who’s coming to college
- Meeting halfway: Academia and the next generation
- Decided on: Resistance is Futile: Academia Meets the NeXt Generation
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