4 October 2021: Officer Election

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

UBC ALA Student Chapter: Post-Election General Meeting (October)

 

Meeting called to order: 17:08 PST

Notes taken by club secretary: Alannah Berson

 

AGENDA

    1. Hello & Introductions
    2. Announce Election Results for 2021-22 Officers
      1. 13 responses
      2. Co-Chair: Mandy Furru
      3. Co-Chair: Amber Gallant
      4. Secretary: Alannah Berson
      5. Treasurer: Peyton Moriarty
      6. Webmaster: Jeremy Davet
    3. Recommendations/tips from end of year summary 
      1. Pandemic wiped membership and leadership, including access to accounts
      2. Underlines the importance of transition procedures
      3. Club did not have a budget and thus had few events since many other clubs had online events
      4. Recommendation: Renegotiate what this club should be for its’ members (strategic plan?)
      5. Not a lot of benefits for being officially constituted under the AMS (just a lot of paperwork)
    4. Add new members to ALA Officer Discord
    5. Make sure Amber, Peyton, Alannah have access to email
    6. Give Jeremy admin access to SCALA blog
    7. Next Club Meetings
      1. Have ALA rep attend
        1. LASSA: Oct 19 2021, 9:00am – 10:00am link
        2. SLA: Meeting 10 AM Thursday (Alannah is point person)
        3. BCLA: In the next week or so (Alanna is point person)
        4. ACA: Meeting tomorrow (6th October) – Peyton will let us know highlights
    8. Set a date/time/location for next meeting
      1. Every two weeks, to see how it works (Mandy will post a link in Discord)
    9. Event Ideas
  • Chai Chill
        1. BYOB, people can share tea
        2. Food Bank – Peyton 
        3. COVID guidelines – may need to check vax cards
        4. Ask LASSA (can we do food and beverage; Mandy will do this)
        5. https://www.when2meet.com/
      2. Professional Development Workshops (BCLA?)
        1. Email signatures
        2. Interview techniques
      3. Fun documentary viewing parties
      4. Guest Speakers – find out what SLA is doing
        1. What topics are members interested in hearing about?
          1. BC ELN 
          2. Business librarianship
          3. UX Librarianship
          4. Tech oriented stuff
          5. Scholarly communications
          6. Webinar – Library Futures
          7. Specialized Academic Librarians from UBC (GIS, Data Librarian)
          8. Special Collections downstairs IKB
  • Hold a Poll on LASSA Discord (Mandy will mention that in email to LASSA as well)

 

  1. Announcements
    1. LASSA Halloween Movie Night, Date TBD. Vote for the movie here.
    2. SLA@UBC Virtual Tour. When: Monday, November 8th, at 12pm. The Special Library Association will be hosting a virtual tour with the Yosef Wosk Library & Resource Centre, the library for the VanDusen Botanical Gardens and the Bloedel Conservatory. Sign up for their mailing list to receive further details when they are available: sla.slais.mail@gmail.com  
    3. Any other news of upcoming events?