Attendees: Chelsea Shriver, Nadia Stennes-Spidahl, Nora Kitchen, Alice MacGougan, Matt Ruen, Elspeth Olson, Nick Josten, Layla Naquin, Katie Hughes, Ariel Deardorff, Amber Saundry, Kaitlyn Sparks.
1. Approval of September 19 meeting minutes
- Minutes were approved, and it was determined that members do not mind having their attendance noted in the minutes that appear on the blog.
2. Elections for ALA@UBC executive offices
- Jason Korff submitted his name for treasurer via email and was elected to the post in absentia. There were no nominations for the position of co-chair or other positions.
- Members are encouraged to send Elspeth an email if they would like to be considered for a position or if there is a position that they would be interested in creating on the executive committee.
3. Banned Books Week event
- Because of the short amount of time to organize an event for Banned Books Week, Kaitlyn proposed a virtual readout of “And Tango Makes Three.” This involves making a video of different people reading a book that has been banned.
- Once submitted to ALA, it takes them 72 hours to post the video on their website, and submissions must be done through YouTube. It can also be posted to the ALA@UBC blog
- Readers are encouraged to wear their ALA t-shirt. Readers can record themselves (i.e., in PhotoBooth on a Mac) and submit the file to Kaitlyn via Skype or Dropbox.
- Kaitlyn will keep the book “And Tango Makes Three” in her box at SLAIS for people to access. Readers should make a note of the pages they read so that the next person knows where to pick up.
- SLAIS has two cameras available to use, if you would like to borrow one to record your reading.
- Kaitlyn would like to submit the video by Friday, October 5, so please record your reading and submit it to her by Friday evening.
- ALA@UBC could possibly do something for Freedom to Read Week (Canadian equivalent of Banned Books Week) in February. Kaitlyn won’t be here next term, but another member can pick up management of the event. We can get in touch with VPL about coordinating a Freedom to Read “read out.” Perhaps we could invite the Seattle ALA chapter to participate.
4. ALA t-shirts
- Members should pick up / pay for their t-shirts.
- It was discussed whether the club wants to order t-shirts for new members and perhaps have a new t-shirt design contest.
- This might be of interest if the purchase could be managed differently (members responsible for placing orders for their individual t-shirts through CustomInk.com or other site).
- Chelsea will send a “last call for t-shirts” email saying that any t-shirts not picked up by next Friday, October 12, will be made available to other ALA members.
5. Other business
- UW/UBC ALA club meet-up: This is an idea held over from last year.
- Inter-club involvement during Freedom to Read Week is a good idea as it gives some reason for collaboration.
- A possible meet-up during the mid-winter meeting is also a possibility.
- Specific ideas for how the two clubs might collaborate would be helpful.
- Elspeth will get information from Mary about where conversations between UBC and UW clubs left off.
- Elspeth will look into getting a SLAIS locker for the group.
- Nick will talk to ASIST about collaborating on an International Game Day event.
- Mid-winter ALA meeting:
- Early-bird registration is still up until November.
- Ariel’s dad is a librarian in Seattle, and she will talk to him about the midwinter ALA meeting and whether it would be useful for ALA@UBC members to go.
- Announcements: ASIST’s first “Cool Tools for School” session is next Tuesday, October 9, from 12-1 p.m. in Terrace Lab. Tools will be demonstrated from 12:00-12:30 p.m. and Connect will be demonstrated from 12:30 to 1:00 p.m. There is no need to register and there will be coffee and Timbits!
6. Next meeting
- The next meeting will be Wednesday, October 24, at 11 a.m. in the Trail Room.