Conference Call Minutes - February 2010
SLA Board of Directors Teleconference Call
11 February 2010
Minutes
- Welcome
President Anne Caputo called the meeting to order at 12:04pm ET - Roll call
Present: Caputo, Romaine, Zamora, Blankson-Hemans, Fifer-Canby, Sweeney, Rink, Hunt, Webb, Lee, Seaberry, Lachance, Sansalone, Kenner
Joined later: Trefethen, Wolfish, Bates - Minutes from previous month Board call (All)
The minutes from the December 2009 Board Call were approved by consent. - Executive Session Item
- Finance Committee update (Dan Trefethen)
Treasurer Dan Trefethen reported on conversations with CFO/COO Nancy Sansalone that the numbers from the Leadership Summit were good and early conference registrations are on track. Private wikis are being set up for the Finance Committee and for the task force investigating sustainable financing issues. - Chapter and Division Assignments (Anne Caputo)
President Caputo announced that unit assignments have been posted to the wiki. The responsibilities of Board members as liaisons were discussed during the St Louis meetings, and included in her email of 4 February. Liaisons should join the discussion lists, periodically review the wikis, newsletters and other unit communications, and notify leaders that, as liaison, we are to provide help in addition to their cabinet representatives, keeping an ear to ground for any issues and/or challenges. Ruth Wolfish asked that the liaisons encourage the chapter presidents to sign up for the monthly chapter calls. Liz Blankson-Hemans suggested it would be helpful if we send introductory emails to the leaders explaining our liaison roles. - Visits
7.1 Janice Lachance participated in last week's Second Life meeting which drew one SLA member. The slides and documents from the Leadership Summit have been posted on the home page, The level of interest is exciting, a tribute to virtual world council. Janice Lachance is heading to South Africa today for a series of IFLA meetings as Chair of the Library Associations Section, which makes her part of IFLA's governing board. Her meetings will include an IFLA Africa regional workshop, and an IFLA Presidents' meeting. In March, she will attend ASAE, travel to New York City for a meeting with Copyright Clearance Center, and another with Dow Jones leadership, which was arranged by President Caputo.
7.2 Cindy Romaine will meet tomorrow with the Dean of the library school for the University of Washington. In March, she will attend the Pharmaceutical division's two-day conference.
7.3 Anne Caputo attended the Second Life session that was targeted to our international members, and the Second Life session held on 10 February, which drew about 20 participants who asked 10-12 good questions. Another session will be held next Tuesday, aimed for the Asia-Pacific members. On 20 February, she departs for India and an international conference on digital libraries. - New business
8.1 Ruth Wolfish reported that there were 14 attendees on the first chapter WebEx call, sponsored by IEEE. Topics included vendor support, reporting timeline, and program planning.
8.2 Daniel Lee reported great interest in the proposal for a collaborative unit effort on website development. His next step will be to get webmasters onto their discussion list to discuss needs and build recognition of various platforms and the issues that will cause when units start aligning. Implementation of a collaborative solution will relax webmaster responsibilities to be a content manager. SLA can experience an explosion of contribution and collaboration and move people toward a common standard. Financing will be determined, but it is expected that this will be paid for by the units. President Caputo commented that this provides a carrot instead of a stick; Ruth Wolfish invited Daniel to participate in one of the monthly chapter calls.
8.3 Daniel Lee suggested that the CI service be loaded as part of the wiki, commenting that a blog can be established within a wiki. Nancy Sansalone reported that talks with staff continue about the best way to accomplish tasks with reduced staff.
8.4 Nettie Seaberry reported that Vivian Hewitt's son is putting together a keepsake album for her 90th birthday and asked anyone who has pictures to send them to her.
8.5 Anne Caputo recommended that we all read the oral histories section on the website, remarking that there is much wisdom captured there.
8.6 Liz Blankson-Hemans asked for information about a communication path for membership chairs. Nancy Sansalone replied that there will be wikis for all of the COPs that are now closed. Finalization of that process will occur after the storms have dissipated and the office is able to open again. - Adjourn
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 12:43 PM EST.
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