Meeting Minutes
University of Hawaii at
Manoa
American Library Association, Student Chapter
Executive Board and Committee Chairs Meeting
August 31, 2005
Campus Center, Room 310,
4:00-5:00 pm
Attendees: Christian DeLay, Joe Murphy, Lillian Nicolich, Loraine
Oribio, Janel Quirante, Dawn Sueoka, Andrew Wertheimer, Marta Wiggins
Proceedings
The minutes from the
Executive Board and Committee Chairs meeting on July 19, 2005 were approved by
the Executive Officers. Lillian
distributed Agenda, Schedules and Committee Participation sheets.
Brief Reports
Business and General
Meeting Schedule (Lillian)
Confirmed dates for Fall 2005
meetings (see schedule handout).
Dawn will make flyers for
Sept. 13 General Membership Meeting.
RIO Renewal (Lillian)
Lillian will fill out renewal
paperwork.
Needs membership list from
Loraine by Sept. 18.
Treasurer’s Report (Marta)
Missing bank statements from
June and July; Marta will contact bank.
Account balance is $1,417.11.
There are a few T-shirts left
from first order (mostly size S).
A new batch is ready for
sale: 12 of each size (S, M, L, XL, XXL).
Order forms will be
strategically placed at reference desks, staff lounge, and website.
Lillian proposed a
fundraising project to benefit ALA student chapters and LIS programs affected
by Hurricane Katrina.
New updates: Vann Award, Ice
Cream Social announcement.
Christian took pictures of
board members.
The new web-based calendar
program will be ready next month.
Christian is looking for an
apprentice to take over website maintenance.
Next issue will be a Flood
Anniversary issue.
Contact Lori or Mona with any
story ideas.
Lillian distributed new
membership forms (all ALA-SC publications are now printed on blue paper with a
standard ALA-SC header).
Dawn will update form after
membership fee discount period ends.
Loraine will speak to 601 and
605 classes to encourage new members and to announce General Membership
Meeting.
Professional Committee:
Brownbag Proposals (Lillian)
Two speakers are confirmed,
co-sponsored by Andrew’s LIS612 class: Dr. Noenoe Silva and Dr. Chieko
Tachihata.
Other proposed speakers come
from the various LIS tracks (see schedules handout)
Service Committee
Proposals (Lillian)
PNC/PRDLA/ECAI Conference
Volunteers, Oct. 30 - Nov. 3. This
digital information conference is hosted by UH and will be held at the
East-West Center. About 12 volunteers
at any given time, per day, are needed.
Andrew will approach Dr. Nahl and Dr. Weingand about possible extra
credit for 601, 610 students who volunteer. Janel is the volunteer coordinator at the event.
Treasures Takedown: will make
a decision next meeting about whether we will do this.
Ice Cream Social (Lillian)
To be held Fri. Sept. 2
2:30-5:00, QLCSS Room 412.
Everyone admired Dawn’s
snazzy flyer.
Lillian and Andrew will make
the ice cream run and Joe will help set up.
We need to make sure room is
extra clean after the event.
Beach Party (Loraine, Joe)
Co-sponsored with SLA-ASIST
and Hui Dui.
To be held Sunday, Sept. 18,
11:00-4:00, Ala Moana Beach Park.
We need a big banner or sign.
Loraine will send out email
asking if anyone has a tent, or else we can rent one.
There is no available slot
for a student paper panel at this year’s HLA conference.
But Laurie Lake is
presenting, and so is Andrew.
Next Meeting
General Membership Meeting,
Tuesday Sept. 13, 3:45, Bilger 319
Meeting adjourned at 4:55 pm.
Minutes submitted by
Secretary, Janel Quirante.