ALA Student Chapter Meeting Minutes
January 19, 2010; 12 p.m.; Trail Room

1. Welcome to any new members and attendance
Dan Pon
Kate Longley
Jennifer Pappas
Siri Hiltz
Bailey Diers
Anna Doyle
Naoimi Schemm
Heidi Schiller
Andrew Berger

2. Approval of November meeting minutes

3. Heidi: News from ALA
— We received an official plaque from the ALA.
— ALA Student-to-Staff program
Yolanda has been nominated and selected to be the inaugural UBC ALA Chapter Student to staff representative. As such she will receive free registration, room and board at this years annual ALA conference in New Orleans.
Next year (and all subsequent years, unless the chapter sees fit to do otherwise) the student chapter will select a nominee for the student to staff position by means of an essay contest if there is more than one nominated candidate.
Heidi moved to add an amendment to the constitution to formalize the procedure for future nominations for student to staff. Motion was seconded and approved. Yolanda and Heidi will write the formal language for this amendment and mail the proposed language to all ALA group members before the February meeting when the amendment will be put up for approval.
Sadly, no one was able to go to the midwinter ALA conference in San Diego. Everyone lamented about this misfortune and expressed a deep longing to see the sun.

4. Report on orientation/club fair
Kate reports that a lot of people had scheduling conflicts for today’s meeting but there is a group of interested new students who have expressed interest in joining us for future events and meetings.
Kate, Yolanda, Anna, Naomi, and Heidi reported that the orientation club fair was successful.

5. EVENTS PLANNING/program ideas for this semester:

— Valentines Day! The ALA Love Buffet: Tuesday February 8th in the SLAIS lounge: 5-8
Make your own valentine’s, cookies, stew, and smutty/romantic readings of passages from literature.
Yolanda will make a poster with information. Open mic; no pressure, but feel free to bring a sexy/romantic passage to share.
Anna will bring additional smutty books. Dan and Yolanda will make stew. Several members will make baked goods.
WE NEED: Bowls, spoons, napkins, craft items. Several members volunteered to bring craft items, check SLAIS kitchen for bowls and spoons.

— March 6-12:Teen Tech Week: Talk with digital tattoo project? Anna will email Eric about information

— March 16: Freedom of Information Day –
Michael talked to a lawyer who will be happy to talk about FOI and Heidi will contact an American lawyer to see if we can get a compare and contrast on Wednesday, March 16th.

— April: School library month- summer reading lists (reviews! donate prizes! Bookstore- ice cream!)
SLAIS summer reading list with blog? Promotes readers advisory-> We will possibly create a good reads group to share summer reading list and reviews.

For next winter:
Raffle:
50/50
Donations (look into process or soliciting donations)

6. Possibility of doing something in lieu of the career fair
— No SLAIS-organized career fair this year but clubs are encouraged to invite speakers near the end of this term for informal student/professional gathering.
Ideas? Having someone talk about something job related through the lens of ALA- Heidi will email Don to see if there are any contacts nearby.
7. Funds:
LASSA money should be forthcoming.
Checking on using SLAIS groups planning incentive money for March event.

8. Next meeting date: Tuesday, Feb 22nd, 11-12 in Trail room
Discuss how the buffet went and plan for the possibility of more!
Vote on constitutional amendment
Plan next event