Minutes of the ACRL/LA Board meeting
June 16, 2000
Lafayette, Louisiana
In attendance: Nancy
Khoury, McNeese; Rebecca Stenzel, Louisiana Tech; Eric Johnson, Southeastern
Louisiana University; Sigrid Kelsey, Louisiana State University; Judy Irvin,
Louisiana Tech; Karen Leeseberg, Nunez Community College; Janette Griffin,
University of New Orleans; and Laverne Simoneaux, Southeastern Louisiana
University.
Donuts
were provided.
Minutes
Minutes
from the ACRL/LA portion of the Joint Meeting of ACRL/LA and the Academic
Section of LLA of March 16, 2000 during the Spring Louisiana Library Association
(LLA) Conference were read by Laverne Simoneaux (Sec/Treas,) amended and
accepted as amended.
Treasurer’s
Report
Report
received. Simoneaux explained the
attached report. Our balance as of June
15, 2000 is $ 3044.46.
Membership
Report
received. Rebecca Malek-Wiley has
included current numbers regarding memberships and some recommendations
concerning greater coordination of membership and recruitment, creation of a
comprehensive database and expansion of the institutional list. Stenzel suggested a sub-committee of
Malek-Wiley, Griffin, Kelsey and Simoneaux meet soon to organize the
accumulation and dissemination of membership information in a searchable,
printable, extractable format.
Johnson
announced that we have a vacancy on the board in the position of chair of
publicity. Simoneaux mentioned that
several new members had indicated a willingness to serve ACRL/LA in some
capacity.
Newsletter
Eric
Johnson introduced Sigrid Kelsey, the new editor of the ACRL/LA
Newsletter. Sigrid said she needed
suggestions for articles and news. Suggestions included blurbs concerning the
National Conference to take place in Colorado in 2001 and the fall LUC/ACRL
Conference to take place October 12-13 in Chalmette at Nunez and the inclusion
of a membership form.
Annual
Meeting
The
Annual Meeting of ACRL and LUC will take place October 12-13 in Chalmette at
Nunez.
Tom
Sanville from OHIO Link will be the speaker ( 90 minutes ) thanks to a $
1000.00 grant funded by NASIG.
“Charting
the Rough Seas–Sorrows and Joys of Consortial Living”--
ACRL/LA Portion
Business Meeting
Sanville (main speaker) with follow-up panel
including a LOUIS person, a Serials Person, a Funding Person and a
moderator. It was noted that one of the
private institutions be included perhaps Tulane or Loyola. Suggested participants included Susanna
Powers from Tulane and Janie Branham from SLU as Moderator.
Main sessions will be held in the auditorium; rooms
available for breakout . Lunch Culinary
Arts will cater. Entertainment was discussed??
It was mentioned that a good map needs to be
provided.
LUC Portion
Other suggested breakout topics include Ag-Cat
–Aggregated Database Cataloging; Consortial ideas about instruction; E-cat;
Using Aquisitions modules; Instruction–Opac vs. Webpac, Teaching Content vs.
Interface; Deednet; Webpages and Consortial Sharing.
Prices were discussed : $15 for one conference; $20 for both
LUC and ACRL; $25 after a certain date.
Discussion
about beginning times. Registration
will be available via the listserv. It
was noted that the Directory should be available for sale at this time
Website
Adrienne
Detwiler will be serving as webmaster for the ACRL/LA website.
LLA
Eric
mentioned sponsoring a speaker for a program at LLA in the spring.
Directory
It
was suggested to push for the new membership directory being ready for the fall
meeting. The meeting provides the
perfect venue to display and sell our new directory.
The
next board meeting will be August 25.
Meeting
adjourned.
Respectfully
Submitted,
Laverne
Simoneaux
Secretary/Treasurer
Amended
8/24/00
Accepted
as Amended 8/24/00