12 March 2009
The conference call was called to order by Gloria Zamora at 12:00 pm US Eastern Time
On Call:
- Board Present--Zamora, Abram, Caputo, James, Fifer Canby, Wolfish, Rink, Sweeney, Arnold, McCullough, Hunt, Webb, Lee, Seaberry, Lachance
- Board Excused--N/A
- Staff Present--Sansalone, Kenner, Kennedy, Lowery
2. Roll call
See above for attendees.
3. Minutes from February 2009 Board call
Approved.
4. Announcement of 2011 Philadelphia Conference Chair (Anne Caputo)
Caputo confirmed that Libby Trudell had accepted the post of chair of the 2011 conference committee. Caputo and Trudell will be completing committee selection in the near future.
5. Nominating Committee for 2010 and directors who appoint nominating committee issue (Tamika McCollough and Kate Arnold)
Arnold and McCollough explained that they were still in the process of confirming the Nominating Committee for 2010, and hoped to be able to announce the list of members by next board call.
On the question raised by Lee last month on directors who appoint nominating committee, Arnold confirmed that it will be the most senior Directors who will select the Nominating Committee. This will in some years be Year 2 Directors, who may have to appoint the Committee two years in a row.
6. SLA Board wiki (training; moving BOD CoP info and deleting CoP (Deb Hunt))
Hunt explained that the new wiki was working well, and she and Lee are happy to help any Board members who require training or help using the wiki. All agreed we should remove the BOD CoP and Hunt will liaise with Kenner to sort this out.
7. Finance Committee update (Sylvia James)
James explained the Finance Committee was meeting monthly and at their March meeting they discussed several items of interest including:
- Our Investment Advisor has moved from Banc of America to Wells Fargo/Wachovia and he has taken our portfolio with him. The Finance Committee voted unanimously to move the portfolio to Wells Fargo/Wachovia.
- Annual conference figures are tracking last year and looking good for the moment.
Caputo asked if the candidates for Treasurer would be invited to join the monthly Finance Committee calls and if so when this would start. James replied that the Finance Committee had voted unanimously that the candidates for Treasurer should attend their monthly calls from April onwards.
8. Click University Update (John Lowery)
Lowery explained that the Click U website had been integrated into the SLA website and now has three sections:
- Members only (webinars: live and replay; online libraries; execuBooks; Innovation Lab; Leadership Training and Career Center)
- Premium (certificate courses and conference courses)
- Click U Consortium (University partners: San Jose Partnership including Executive MLIS and Kent State Partnership with a 10% Discount on Online Masters in KM; Online KM Certificate and Certificate in User Experience Design coming in 2010).
He has been working with the Second Life group and it's been agreed they will build a Click U Classroom and think of some topics for an in-world Webinar. All of this is on hold until the Virtual Worlds Advisory Council is appointed.
Lowery then focused on several popular products: Copyright Panel Webinar and Gary Price Quarterly Update Webinar. Both of these webinars have been sold out and continue to be very popular.
On course registrations Lowery provided details of certificate course numbers for 2008 and 2009:
- Copyright Management: CCM100: 26(2008)/29(2009); CCM 200: 17/30; CCM300/400: 9/34; full certificates: 3/8.
- Knowledge Management: KMKS02: 9(2008)/5(2009); KMKS03: 12/13; Competitive Intelligence: CIC01: 20/21; CIC02: 7/16; CIC03:15/10
Finally Lowery mentioned upcoming initiatives for Click U. These include updating the Innovation Lab; looking at a MindLeaders proposal and seeing whether this is applicable as a member offering; and evaluating the online library that Credo offers.
9. Alignment Update (Janice Lachance)
Lachance confirmed that work continued on the next steps outlined during the February meeting.
10. Update on calls/visits (All)
Zamora said that the March call list would be distributed after this conference call and that all but 3 Board members had people to call with 45+ year's membership. Key things to concentrate on in the calls to this group of members is centennial and conference.
On calls and visits everyone reported that members were generally pleased and astonished to receive calls from the Board. Several people said they would share the emails they send in advance and after calls.
11. Visits (Gloria Zamora, Anne Caputo and Janice Lachance)
Caputo had attended the recent Princeton/Trenton chapter meeting.
Lachance outlined her visits for the next month which include speaking at a meeting in Washington DC organised by Grant Thornton in honor of women's history month; attending Information Today's Buying and Selling E content conference in Phoenix, AZ; a State Department organised trip to Japan covering 5 cities in 8 days. Lachance will be meeting members of Japan's SLA during her stay. She then travels to Singapore and Dubai for ASAE meetings, and will be meeting with members of the Asian chapter in both countries. Finally Lachance will be attending the Perfect Information conference in the UK in May.
12. New Business
Zamora introduced a new item of business, the creation of an Information Outlook Advisory Council. Arnold proposed a motion: 'That the Board of Directors approve the creation of an Information Outlook Advisory Council (IOAC) to work with the Editor to help develop ideas for themes and article topics and to provide feedback on article proposals received by the Editor. The IOAC would consist of 8-10 members who represent a cross-section of environments and locations and who bring different career experiences to the table. The main responsibilities of panel members would be:
- Recommend general theme topics for issues
- Recommend specific articles that fit within the themes
- Suggest authors for articles
- Review article proposals and provide feedback.'
The Council would predominantly meet virtually but ideally would meet in person for 60-90 minutes at annual conference.
Sansalone explained that the creation of an advisory council had been discussed for a while, and that timing was appropriate with the appointment of a new editor.
The motion will be passed along to the Committee on Association Governance for an official charge.
APPROVED BY UNANIMOUS VOTE
Zamora gave an update on the two most recently established Advisory Councils: Virtual Worlds, Stephen Abram is the board liaison; Zamora is having some difficulty persuading people to agree to serve on this council. First Five Years, Sylvia James is the board liaison; one member left to appoint.
DLDP recommendation will be sent out to the Board later this week.
Caputo mentioned that she had a successful call with the candidates earlier in the day and wanted to thank those board members who had agreed to act as mentors.
James raised the issue of the HW Wilson award which had created some correspondence on the Fellows list. Zamora explained that HW Wilson had decided not to sponsor this award for this year, so this award won't be presented in 2009.
14. Adjourn
Call adjourned at 1:06 pm US Eastern Time
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