ALA Student Chapter Meeting – March 22, 2011; 11 a.m.
1. Heidi: Welcome and attendance.
Heidi Schiller
Yolanda Bustos
Anna Doyle
Not in attendance:
Kate Longley, Naomi Schemm

2. Approval of February meeting minutes. Approved.
3. Anna: funds update. Deposited our revenue from Valentine event. $62 in LASSA account. Still no LASSA funds, but Kirsty will do it as soon as she gets the money. Anna has the data to give a small year in review report.

4. Feedback for Ingrid Parent event. Good event and a good opportunity for recruiting. Lots of students and faculty present. Lunch was totally yummy and nice. Having lunch was a good way to have a speaker. We inquired about the price but Eric didn’t know. Possible that if we had enough notice, we could have some additional SLAIS sponsorship for food funds. We agreed that lunch is a very smart way to get good attendance for a speaker.

5. Brainstorming for next year’s events: Tabled due to lack of next year’s group members present. We will discuss this planning over the summer.

6. Discuss the creation of an annual report-end of the year office reports.
We need a narrative of what we did this year. Heidi will provide the annual report. Anna will create a financial report. Yolanda will edit and approve all docs and add them to the official ALA minutes, constitution etc.

7. Other Business
Summer reading: Kate’s baby? We’ll possibly all contribute a reader’s advisory which will be web accessible. Something small, maybe even a blog post with recommendations.

New student orientation: ALA conference in ANAHEIM. Disneyland! ALA student to staff informational brochures and informational club brochures will be made available (also on the website).

8. Thanks for a great first term everyone!

ALA Student Chapter Meeting Minutes – February 22, 2011; 11 a.m.

1. Heidi: Welcome and attendance.
Heidi Schiller
Anna Doyle
Yolanda Bustos
Bailey Diers

Not in attendance:
Kate Longley
Naomi Schemm

2. Approval of January meeting minutes.
3. Discussion of “Love Buffet”. Feedback?
Pretty good turn out. About 16-18 people attended. Not bad for a Tuesday night. We ran out of chili. Maybe next time based on donation or a no participation required lunch.
4. Anna gave an update on our funds: hasn’t talked to Kirsty about LASSA funds. Love buffet made $62.
5. Heidi and Yolanda: Discussion of amendment of Constitution to include process for Student to Staff nominations in subsequent years. Vote on process. Passed unanimously. Needs to be updated in constitution in FTP (new document demonstrating change) and changed online.
6. Yolanda: Student to staff SLAIS travel award stipend: We need to create general information about student to staff doc for the ftp/online about Student to Staff. Yolanda will make a printable informational brochure for the fall, which will also be available for download from our blog.
7. Brainstorming for next event:
• Reports on progress for Teen Tech week? Not going to happen this year
• Freedom of Information Day? E-mail Michael? Heidi’s friend cannot speak on the issue. Waiting to hear from Kate about video panel?
• Skip the panel and maybe making something on the blog, giving out information? See if there is interest in designing this.
• If we are going to work on summer reading list or blog, we should start to do that.
• We should also start focusing on events for fall so that the new cohort will have something to come to: Banned Books. (Potential panel, banned books reading, etc)
8. Heidi: Ingrid Parent event: We’re co-sponsoring the event. We need to push this event with word of mouth. Next Wednesday at 11:30. (lunch and lecture)
9. Next Meeting- Tuesday March 22 @ 11am- Trail Room
a. Brainstorming for next year’s events.
b. Feedback for Ingrid Parent event
c. Year-end wrap up: discuss the creation of an annual report-end of the year office reports.

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