ALA Meeting Minutes: September 9th, 2013
IKBLC Trail Room, 1:00pm
Attendees:
Matthew, Anna, Nadine, Grace, Kendall, Eric, Tracy, Mitchell, Hannah, Robin, Kaylin, Monica, Matthew R., Katie, Elise, Nicole, Amanda, Stephanie, Caroline
Agenda:
Introductions
Officer Openings
Treasurer graduating in November, position opening
New officer:
ALA Roundup: 1st event of the year
Friday, Sept 27th at 5pm
Inspired by attendance to the ALA Conference
Vote: Koerners or Calhouns?
Result of vote: 5 / 7 Calhouns
Need to add Eric to mailing list
T-Shirts
If approved by members will attempt to set a low cost
ALA will swallow the excess cost of the t-shirts, we will set a lower price
Handful of people raised their hands but –
Will have a sale table to fundraise the initial cost of shirts and take orders
Banned Book Week and Book Exchange
Banned Book Week Event fell mid-Sept. this year so we missed it
should plan during the summer next year if we want to have an event
Book Exchange: White Elephant-type event; wrap a book and exchange
Wikipedia Loves Libraries
Open Access Week (last full week of October usually)
Libraries host workshop to learn how to edit Wikipedia entries and improve quality of entires
Week of October 25th (the week of the SLAIS accreditation) _not the 21st_ which is an accreditation event for the students
Goal: Incorporate the editing of stub entries into the event
University of Washington ALA Student Group
Exchange with the UW ALA (Our contact person: Matthew)
They want to do this in January, which corresponds with a holiday for them (Is this MLK Day?)
Matthew is looking into arranging an earlier event
We will need to house exchange students
Other Events
Freedom-to-Read Week
Reading event with fundraiser bake sale
Haiku Event
Tends to fail (low turnout; got cancelled last year)
Distributor / publisher event
Getting to know the publishers and distributors better / getting a grasp on the general situation in the industry via panel or such
Showing of “The Librarian” series of movies and possibly “The Librarian” board game
Scholarship for students going to the ALA conference
Conference roundup will cover the conferences happening in or around Vancouver / Victoria
Update Charter
Membership terms are really vague
Includes the requirement that everyone be an ALA member
Executive positions must be filled by an ALA member (can happen post-election as needed)
ALA Promotion
The blog is going to get more active
Call for promotion ideas / ideas to get in touch with ALA
Trying to mediate the intimidation factor of ALA
ALA is a huge organization so there are many opportunities for volunteering
Lots of possibilities for recognition and professional development
Rob Bittner is a past student who’s ended up on high profile book award committees
Many committees need more people
Amanda: a suggestion is “what student involvement looks like at ALA”
Identifying avenues for involvement for beginner students
New Business
Ran out of time
Next Meeting?
