1. Heidi: Welcome/Introduction to the soon-to-be-first ALA student chapter of SLAIS
(Collect interested members’ names and email addresses)
Attendees included:
• Heidi Schiller
• Naomi Schemm
• Yolanda Bustos
• Michael Grutchfeild
• Andrew Berger
• Dan Pon
• Kate Longley
• Jocelyn Hallman
• Eric (faculty advisor) and (future ALA member) Baby Julia Meyers.
2. Heidi: Overview of the process for becoming an official group
a. Get a faculty advisor (Eric Meyers)
b. Interested students sign up for ALA membership (many states have joint membership rates)
c. Draft a constitution (we have examples from other groups)
d. “A nominating committee should be appointed and a meeting held to elect officers and approve the constitution.”
e. “A chapter group program committee should be appointed to work with the officers to develop program ideas.”
f. Notify ALA liaison of group’s existence. Include draft of constitution, faculty advisor name and list of officers.
3. Formation of constitution committee to meet soon after today (committee will determine how and when officers are elected and which offices are needed): Jocelyn volunteered to spearhead the committee group; Heidi, Michael and Kate committed to helping Jocelyn. Jocelyn will email them to arrange a meeting before the next all-member meeting.
4. Naomi: Becoming an officially recognized club at SLAIS/UBC: LASSA vs. AMS
a. Naomi will find investigate benefits of being an ALA group
b. A few questions to consider: Can non-SLAIS students be in a LASSA group? (This would affect whether students from another school/faculty, such as LLED, could be involved in our group.
5. Getting an official SLAIS listserv and FTP space – Heidi will find out from Susie
6. Naomi and Yolanda: Report on what other ALA student chapters do/program ideas. Naomi listed programs and events that the University of Washington’s iSchool ALA group does. Yolanda reported we would be the only ALA student group in Canada.
7. Formation of a program committee – Heidi suggested we all brainstorm program ideas for next meeting, and it will be an agenda item.
8. Next meeting date: Oct. 26, 11 am