10 April 2008
The conference call was called to order by Stephen Abram at 3:04 pm US Eastern Time
On Call:
- Board Present -- Abram, Zamora, Vargha, James, Trudell, Frank, Rink, Romaine, Arnold, Hunt, Webb
- Board Excused -- Sarmiento, McCollough, Lachance
- Board Absent -- Fifer-Canby
- Staff Present -- Sansalone, Gozzard
1. Welcome (Abram)
2. Roll call
See above for attendees.
3. Minutes from February 2008 Board call
Approved.
4. Recap on motions agreed to between meetings via email (Arnold)
Arnold provided recap on the two motions agreed via email between Board teleconference calls. These were:
- EM0408CC-A01 -- 2009 SLA Board of Directors Candidates approved by email on 21 February 2008.*
- EM0308CC-A01 -- 2008-2009 Nominating Committee approved by email on 22 March 2008.*
5. President's Update (includes travel/visits) (Abram)
Abram and Vargha have both been interviewed this week by a journalist from New York Times on temporary closure of Library of Congress reading room and academic libraries respectively. Abram thanked Cara Schatz for sorting the interviews out so swiftly. Information Today has contacted Abram and is arranging interviews in Seattle during conference. Over the last month or so he has visited McGill School of Information Studies, Toronto Faculty of Information, Simmons College and several chapters: Boston, Toronto and Eastern Canada.
6. CEO Update (includes travel/visits) (Lachance)
Lachance is currently at an ASAE Board of Directors meeting and is travelling to Harvard this weekend for the IFI meeting. She will be leading a panel session, on negotiating contracts from Info Professionals point of view, at the Buying and Selling E-Content conference in Arizona next week.
7. Update on Centennial Planning committee (Abram)
The committee were continuing to have regular conference calls.
8. Innovation workgroups update (Abram, Romaine, Hunt)
Abram confirmed that the Second Life workgroup led by Jill Hurst-Wahl was doing well and the work group delivering this is expanding membership.
Romaine provided an update on the Innovation Laboratory workgroup
Hunt gave an update on Learning 2.0 workgroup
Trudell reported that the Chapter Idea Bank was up as a wiki and was getting some good interaction.
9. New schedule for start time for monthly calls (Abram)
Abram summarised revisions to the schedule for monthly teleconference calls:
The September AOOC meeting has now been re-scheduled to take place on 17-18 November 2009.
Leadership Summit for 2009 will take place in Savannah, GA from 15-17 January 2009. Board meetings will take place on 12-14 January 2009.
10. Update from AOOC meeting (Abram)
The request for additional funding for the Innovation Laboratory was referred to the Finance Committee.
Vargha agreed to lead a volunteer workgroup to develop a template for an SLA Wikipedia entry.
The Asian chapter is hosting a conference in November 08 in India and they have offered local hospitality for any SLA member who would like to come and do a presentation at their conference. Zamora was asked to contact all Seattle planners and make them aware of this offer in case anyone wanted to do a repeat of their presentation from Seattle in India.
11. EM0408CC-B01 Q1 Ops Report, Update
12. New business
Call adjourned at 4:03pm US Eastern Time
*Executive session documents are not posted to the web.
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