PAM Business Meeting
Jane Holmquist
SLA Physics, Astronomy, Mathematics Division -- 1998/99 Business Meeting
Tuesday, 8 June 1999 -- Hilton, Marquette Room, Minneapolis, MN
7:30 - 8:45 a.m.
The PAM business meeting began with breakfast at 7:30 a.m. Brenda Corbin,
Chair, thanked the American Physical Society (APS) for sponsoring the
breakfast. APS representatives Mina Chung, Sharon Lensky, Dr. Thomas
McIlrath, Charlie Muller and Bob Thurston were introduced. The SLA Board
Proctor was Doris Helfer, Division Cabinet Chair-Elect.
Jane Holmquist, Secretary, reported that the 1998 Business Meeting minutes
had been approved and published in the August 1998 PAM Bulletin, available
on the PAM website. Kris Fowler, Treasurer, reported that the 1998 Annual
Financial Statement of the Division was published in the May 1999 PAM
Bulletin and the Division's Mid-year Financial Statement will appear in
the August 1999 PAM Bulletin.
Brenda Corbin thanked retiring Bulletin Editor Laurel Kristik for a job
well done.
Dick Funkhouser, Chair of the Awards Committee, presented the PAM Division
Award to Peter Boyce, former Executive Officer of the American
Astronomical Society (see full text of citation and acceptance speech read
by Sarah Stevens-Rayburn on Peter's behalf elsewhere in the Bulletin).
The PAM Achievement Award was presented to Nancy Anderson, Mathematics
Librarian at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana (see full text
of citation elsewhere in Bulletin).
Molly White presented a special plaque to the American Mathematical
Society thanking them for publishing the PAM Membership Directory annually
since 1982. AMS representatives receiving the award were Bert
TePaske-King, Sherry O'Brian, Tim McMahon and Linda Guccione.
Brenda introduced Christina Louis from the Indian Institute of
Astrophysics in Bangalore, India as the recipient of the first PAM
Membership Award, i.e. a two-year membership in SLA awarded to a librarian
from a developing country. Christina was also the recipient of the
Sci-Tech Division's International Librarian's Award which funded her
travel to the SLA Annual Conference in Minneapolis so we were very
fortunate to have her present with us.
Greg Youngen, Chair of the Nominating Committee, presented the following
slate of candidates: Jane Holmquist, Chair-Elect and Ann Jensen,
Secretary, which was approved by those in attendance.
Dorothy Manderschied announced that she will be retiring as Mathematics
Librarian at Michigan State University on July 1st, but will continue as
Archivist until October 1st. She has drafted a set of retention
guidelines for our Division and is also working on part II of a history of
PAM. Brenda thanked Dorothy for her many years of service. Sara Rutter
will become the new PAM Archivist as of October 1st.
Sylvia Toombs, Membership Chair, reported that as of April 5th there are
213 members in the PAM Division. The membership directory information is
currently in a TeX file, thanks to Kris Fowler. Pat Hausman will be the
new Membership Chair.
David Stern, Chair of the Networking Committee (who is an SLA Board
Candidate!) reported that there are currently 446 subscribers to PAMnet,
which now has a threaded archive, thanks to Thurston Miller.
Brenda thanked Judy Matthews, Chair of the Public Relations Committeee,
forall her work on the new PAM brochure. Judy also made PAM sponsorship
signs which were given to our vendors to display in their exhibit
booths.
Barbara Chu reported on behalf of Jeanette Regan for the International
Relations Committee. Christina Louis reported on the newly-established
Asia-Pacific Forum which is supported by SLA and the Australian Library
Association and included members from China, Hawaii, Australia, India and
Latin America. Jeanette has established an electronic discussion list for
the APF.
Brenda reported on plans for the SLAGlobal 2000 meeting to be held in
Brighton, England in October 20000. The PAM proposal for a panel
discussion on equity of access to information throughout the world was
accepted and planning is currently underway.
Brenda thanked Marlene Cummins for providing continuity for our Division
by maintaining the PAM Procedures Manual on the PAM webpage, Peggy Dominy
for the PAM Banner she designed and made for us, and Kris Fowler and
Janice Jaguszewski for the wonderful hospitality they provided in
Minneapolis.
Molly White, PAM Chair for 1999-2000, distributed a list of the PAM
Committees for the coming year, and reported that she is already involved
in the planning of next year's SLA annual conference in Philadelphia.
Karen Croneis, Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee, thanked her
committee and all the respondents to the survey, and encouraged everyone
to refer to the PAM website for full details.
Carol Hutchins asked if there were PAM members who planned to attend the
Sci-Tech meetings at ALA in New Orleans later in June. There were
none.
Liz Bryson reported that she and Uta Grothkopf of ESO were setting up a
website for observatory annual reports.
A motion was made, and the meeting was adjourned.
jane@astro.princeton.edu
