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