26 October 2021: General Meeting

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Meeting Agenda – October 26, 2021 – Held in Terrace Lab, IKB 4th Floor

UBC ALA Student Chapter: General Meeting

 

Meeting called to order: 5:03

Notes taken by club secretary: Alannah Berson

 

AGENDA

 

  1. Hello & Welcome
  2. Vote on October 4th Meeting Minutes
  3. LASSA Response to Email
    1. Chai Chill → questions forwarded to iSchool administration for further guidance on COVID event guidelines
      1. Department follows the provincial guidelines, (50 people which is fine given our attendance numbers)
      2. Meeting outside (for food and drink events) could help people feel comfortable, but challenging with the rain
      3. Could postpone this until next term and focus on a holiday event
    2. LASSA Discord Poll for Event Topics → we are welcome to create a poll, but LASSA asks that we do not post in too many channels 
      1.  Topics for guest speakers or workshops
  4. Event Poll 
    1. Finalize topics for guest speakers/workshops
      1. British Columbia Electronic Library Network (BC ELN) 
      2. Business librarianship
      3. Health Librarianship
        1. Know a librarian at UCSD (UBC grad) who may be interested in talking about his work -Amber
      4. UX Librarianship
      5. Technical Services Topics (metadata, backend of public libraries)
      6. Scholarly communications
      7. Webinar – Library Futures (strike)
        1. None upcoming but most are archived at Internet Archive. Possible titles to choose from include Mythbusting Controlled Digital Lending and Big Tech and Access to Information
      8. Specialized Academic Librarians from UBC (GIS, Data Librarian)
      9. Special Collections downstairs IKB
      10. Professional Development Workshop on Email Signatures (BCLA)
        1. Other library-specific development? Can begin curating list of interview questions (will be able to use this for multiple events) 
      11. Children’s librarianship (potential collab with YAACS)
    2. Choose a platform – Google poll
    3. Who will create & post? – Mandy will make & share, then we will discuss on officer’s channel
    4. ETA will be Saturday 
  5. SLA & BCLA Updates from Alannah
    1. AB will reach out about crafternoons (BCLA)
  6. Food Bank Updates from Peyton

 

    1. ACA → Do we want to reach out about hosting a social event soon? Perhaps a holiday theme.
      1. Teaching days finish on Dec 7th. 
      2. Probably best in 1st half of December to catch people before they leave for the holidays
      3. Action step: Amber will reach out by Friday the 29th about general availability 
    2. Set a date/time/location for next meeting
      1. Meeting every two weeks is a lot if we don’t have an event
      2. We could have a low-key social in November 
      3. Next Meeting: 16 November
      4. Action Item: Mandy will write for the Digest and Jeremy will post on Discord
      5. Action Item: Amber will make graphic 
    3. Upcoming Events: 
  • SLA: VanDusen Botanical Gardens Virtual Tour
    1. When: 11/22
    2. Google form sign-up sheet
  2. Meeting ended: 5:36pm