ALA Meeting

ALA Meeting March 1

Date: March 1, 2018

Time: 5:00 PM

Place: Trail Room

Members Present: Erin Flynn, Lisa Zhu, Lara Maestro, Rachel McRory, Maddy Walter

Last Meeting: February 5, 2018
Minutes Approved: Yes

Discussion of Executive Positions

• Rachel McRory is taking on the role of Webmaster and will be acting Secretary unless other members express interest in the role of Secretary.
• Webmaster and Co-Chairs officially all have blog access.

Event Planning

• “A Wrinkle in Time” comes out next week – possible extracurricular activity
• Idea of papermaking might be used for the term’s wrapup event
  • More information is needed about how this would work, what supplies/space are necessary, whether it is feasible to plan for the end of term. Erin will look into this.
• Suggestion of themed trivia night as alternate year-end activity.
• Interest in doing more with the resources that are available to/received by the ALA club email: want to pass more information about the ALA as an organization along to ALA club members.
• Interest in hosting an event or a skype session with people from the greater ALA community or people working in the profession.
  • This is for the distant future, maybe an event we could try to plan for the start of the September term.

• Lara updated the Executive information for ALA at UBC
  • Also noted that scholarships are due by March 15 for the JCLC conference: Lara will forward the information to ALA club members.

Next Meeting

• Plan to schedule the next meeting in conjunction with the end-of-term event on Thursday of the last week of classes.

ALA Meeting

ALA Meeting Feb 5

Date: February 5, 2018

Time: 5:00 PM

Place: Trail Room

Members Present: Lara Maestro, Lisa Zhu, Kellen Malek, Erin Flynn

Last Meeting: January 15, 2018
Minutes Approved: Yes

Presidential Co-Chair Handover

• Lisa Zhu and Erin Flynn are taking over as co-chairs.
• Lisa was given access to ALA email; Erin and Lisa were given access to the MailChimp account.
• Necessity of having an ALA membership discussed.
• Still need to find a new Webmaster and Secretary. Rachel McRory might be willing to be Webmaster – need to confirm her interest in the position.

Scavenger Hunt Debrief

• Overall, the scavenger hunt was a success.
• For next time, should establish the email address and Google form, and determine rules about needing to be present at the wrap-up party to receive prizes.
• ischoolhunt email address and google form will be left setup; might also want to reuse some of the difficult questions for next hunt.
• Need to establish how costs will be split with YAACS in the future (currently they have no funds)

Events

• Maybe host a mid-term colouring night: will need to send out a poll to decide what movie to show.
  • Need to ask Lucas about where last term’s colouring books are.
• Possible screening of Youth Media Awards: it runs at 8AM MST on February 12 but might want to watch it after the fact because of Family Day.
• Maybe bring in a professional or PHD candidate to give a talk or host a webcast.
  • Possibly to talk about importance of ALA accreditation, what it means for students. Could ask someone from accreditation committee for last year.

Next Meeting

• First week of March.
• Will send out a doodle the week before the meeting to try to get more people to come.