Author Archives: JENTRYCAMPBELL

09/24/21

Minutes 27 January 2021

Meeting Agenda – January 27, 2021 – Held on GoogleMeet

UBC ALA Student Chapter – General Meeting (January)

 

Meeting Start Scheduled: 12:00 PST

Notes taken by club secretary:

 

AGENDA

  1. Hello & Group Check-In
    1. If new members are present, introduce club officers.
  2. Approve Minutes from December Meeting & Post
    1. Approved
  3. Announcements
    1. Email from ALA NMRT Student Chapter Outreach Committee w/ invitation to connect with other ALA student chapters, swap ideas about planning events/getting speakers
    2. BCLA Student Chapter “Crafternoons” 1st & 3rd Wednesday of each month
    3. Any other news of upcoming events?
      1. Not really.
  4. ALA Event Brainstorming
    1. General overwhelm of events. Unsure where is valuable to step in.
  5. Desire to update club constitution?
    1. Maybe? At this point, put on hold.

 

No future meetings scheduled at this time.

 

Meeting adjourned 12:30 PST

 

12/14/20

Minutes 09 November 2020

Meeting Agenda – November 9, 2020 – Held on GoogleMeet

UBC ALA Student Chapter – November Meeting

Meeting Start Scheduled: 16:15 PST; Meeting called to order 4:24 PST

Notes taken by club secretary: Alannah Berson

 

AGENDA

  1. Hello & Group Check-In
    1. PLA – Public Libraries (within ALA) – Webinar on health coverage initiatives Oct 21st. 1-2 Central  – Did anyone go? Just curious.
      1. Nobody present attended this event
  2. Approve Minutes from October Meeting & Post
    1. Minutes approved and posted to website by Jentry
    2. Details for club updated on ALA page
  3. Google – Is it still a problem? (My guess is yes.)
    1. Recovery Phone Number(s) – Account linked to a Google Device. Requires juggling between members due to geographic differences.
    2. Remember for succession planning.
      1. Mandy’s number currently listed as recovery phone
  4. IT Never got back to us re:old LASSA page – what to do?
    1. At this point just ignore it. Nothing we can do without help of IT or past presidents, which we have tried.
  5. Email Review:
    1. Judith F. Krug Memorial Fund IF Course Scholarship Application Open until Nov. 19, 2020
      1. https://blogs.ubc.ca/scala/ifya_scholarship_nov2020/
      2. Open to American students in the States for credit
      3. Relates to Freedom of Information, which is not a prominent topic in the iSchool at current
    2. NMRT Online Programs Committee Survey
      1. Link removed
      2. Post in LASSA Discord #announcements
    3.  ALA seeks student member volunteers to help facilitate a student networking session for Midwinter 2021
      1. Do not post
  6. Jobs:
    1. Seems remote friendly:
      1. Ask a Librarian at CU Boulder: https://www.colorado.edu/libraries/jobs-opportunities/ask-librarian-apprenticeship
      2. Sent on to Kevin Day for Job Board listing
  7. What to do? What to post?
    1. “Jentry, Kelso, and Mandy may have a future meeting to learn how to run the website.” Set up a time beginning of Term 2?
      1. December Chill Meeting – For planning
      2. Dec 14, 4:15PST
      3. Mandy – “Grand” events should be planned at the beginning of term rather than the end of term because students are dealing with final papers/exams by that point
  8. Meeting Adjourned: Move by Mandy, Second by Jentry – 17:14 PST
11/9/20

Scholarship: Intellectual Freedom and Young Adults, offered through San Jose State University School of Information (SJSU iSchool)

Judith F. Krug Memorial Fund IF Course Scholarship Application Open until Nov. 19, 2020

The Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF), is excited to announce a scholarship for the Spring 2021 seminar, Intellectual Freedom and Young Adults, offered through San Jose State University School of Information (SJSU iSchool).

The 3-credit online seminar led by instructor Beth Wrenn-Estes runs from January 27 – May 17, 2021. The course will focus on intellectual freedom issues with youth, the value of youth literature to enhance individuals’ lives, the ethics of intellectual freedom, the psychology of censorship and how to combat it, and how to defend materials for youth. Before Wrenn-Estes started teaching for SJSU full-time she was a youth services librarian. She is passionate about libraries and especially serving youth. Wrenn-Estes received the iSchool Outstanding Teacher Award in 2012 and The Most Distinguished (Faculty) Service award in 2014.

The scholarship covers half the cost of the course and is open to any student enrolled in a LIS degree program.  As part of a collaboration between FTRF and SJSU, staff and volunteers will lend their expertise as guest speakers, and the FTRF and ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom archival materials will be made available to students.

Applications for the scholarships are due November 18 and recipients will be announced by December first. You may apply here.

Students enrolled in programs affiliated with the WISE consortium will be provided course credit automatically upon completion of the course.  Others will need to coordinate course credit with their home institution.

For more information regarding registration please contact Sheila.Gurtu@sjsu.edu at the SJSU iSchool or Yumeka Brown ybrown@ala.org at the Freedom to Read Foundation.

11/9/20

Minutes 05 October 2020

Meeting Agenda – October 5, 2020 – Held on GoogleMeet

UBC ALA Student Chapter – October Meeting

Meeting Start Scheduled: 4:15 PDT

Notes taken by club secretary: Alannah Berson

Minutes

  1. Welcome new officers!
    1. Jentry – MLIS, co-chair, Vancouver, BC
    2. Mandy – Dual, 2nd co-chair, Milwaukee, WI
    3. Alannah – MLIS Secretary, Chicago, IL
    4. Jeremy – Dual, Treasurer, Houston, TX
    5. Kelso – MLIS, Webmaster, North Carolina
  2. Adding a Webmaster/Special Election
    1. No clear guidance in the Constitution, so execs could decide
    2. Only 9 people voted in the last public election
    3. Mandy advocates for voting Kelso in since running unopposed
    4. Jentry motions to a hand-raising vote, Kelso is elected unanimously
  3. Jentry is trying to gain access to /alaplace (old blog) as it still comes up #1 in Google results. Tech has not returned the message sent 9/23 requesting assistance.
    1. Discussion of how club did not have succession plan, and now the club has two websites and Jentry is trying to get access to the older site
    2. Jentry, Kelso, and Mandy may have a future meeting to learn how to run the website
    3. Blog is low maintenance at the moment, can be updated, to be less “dead” 
    4. Need to approve and post previous meeting minutes
    5. Discussion of various social media accounts
    6. Need to update passwords 
    7. Changing Facebook to help direct people to the more recent website
    8. Need to check Twitter handle and update banners etc. 
  4. COVID Events
    1. Email from BCLA: They have an event 13 Nov
    2. Last year’s events were often done with the SCLA  – potential events for this year as well
      1. Collab in spirit (since we don’t have a budget), coordinate to share resources,  reaching out to people, and administrative planning 
    3. PLA – Public Libraries (within ALA) – Webinar on health coverage initiatives Oct 21st. 1-2 Central 
    4. LASSA could help fund our events if we pitch it to them as related to our degrees 
    5. Can always figure out a fundraiser if we want a not-as related activity 
  5. Google is being difficult- What to do for permissions?
    1. Problems with succession plan and previous administration signing over privileges 
    2. We will build a succession plan to avoid this happening to future club execs 
    3. Jeremy around to help with access 
    4. Could try logging in with the UBC VPN to see if it would make Google less angry 
    5. Adding new execs to UBC WordPress site
  6. ALA membership requirement (Article III)
    1. Delay Official ALA membership fees, due to Covid-19
    2. Jentry recommends joining before a longer break to get access to the online learning resources 
    3. Paid courses to fill-out areas UBC courses are less helpful with
    4. ALA offers a stipend for a single student per chapter to attend the conference – might make more sense in the summer
    5. Industry journal available in UBC Library 
    6. Free Research Data Management Librarian Academy: https://rdmla.github.io/
    7. Workshop to sign up for ALA workshops – work on after December, possibly January meeting
  7. General meetings every month Article 4 of Constitution
    1. Not followed by past years, last year there were 3 general meetings
    2. Not much happened, except for a talk from the  ACLN and the SLA library tour
    3. Meetings could be social to build the cohort
    4. Potential November Meeting
      1. November 9th – 4pm (pdt)
      2. Themed?
      3. Post a poll in LASSA’s discord for theme ideas
  8. Meeting adjourned at 5pm PDT

 

09/23/20

Fall 2020 Election Results

Thank you to everyone that voted in our election. The results are as follow:

Co-Chairs: Jentry Campbell & Mandy Furru
Treasurer: Jeremy Davet
Secretary: Alannah Berson
Webmaster: Webmaster duties will be split among the execs as needed.
09/23/20

Minutes 22 September 2020

UBC ALA Student Chapter – Fall General Meeting & Election

September 22, 2020 – Held on GoogleMeet

MINUTES

Executives Present: Giovanna Maranghi, Jentry Campbell, Jeremy Davet

General Members: Brianna Henshaw, Manfred Nissley

Total Attendees: 5; 2 Sent regrets

Called to Order: 4:06pm

  1. Welcome to all attendees!
    1. Clarifying questions, what is the ALA, what do we do
    2. ALA offers online professional development
    3. Student membership is cheaper and offers access to those professional development opportunities.
    4. In regular times there is a subsidy for the ALA conference for students.
  2. Elections
    1. Candidates
      1. Chairs: Jentry Campbell
      2. Secretary: Alannah Berson
      3. Treasurer: Jeremy Davet
      4. Webmaster: No Candidates – Duties will be shared
      5. Late Write in for Chair #2: Mandy Furru
    2. Statements were made available to voters on our Discord server
    3. Voting
      1. Voting through a single-access Google Form
      2. Voting is open until midnight tonight
  3. General Business
    1. None raised

Motion to end by Jentry, Second by Jeremy: 4:25pm

09/3/20

Minutes 02 September 2020

 

UBC ALA Student Chapter – Fall Planning Executive Meeting

September 02, 2020 – Held on GoogleMeet

MINUTES

Meeting Start at 10:07AM, Wednesday 02 September

Present: Jentry Campbell (taking minutes), Jeremy Davet

Tardy: Giovanna Maranghi

  1. Updates
    1. Transition Procedure
      1. Add notes about incumbencies – Even if re-electing or running for re-election should create a transition document
      2. Update so web-master posts minutes from meetings as recorded by secretary
    2. Webpage
      1. New webpage created because of challenge with administrative privileges on former page
      2. Possibly put ALA’s message in quotes
      3. All links work
      4. Meeting minutes will be added as a page and then linked on the Meeting Minutes page
        1. Possibly create a table for past minutes, etc.
  2. LASSA Welcome Meeting & Slide
    1. LASSA Welcome is Tuesday 8 September 1-2PM
    2. Jeremy is attending & creating slide
    3. Co-Presidents, Secretary, Treasurer, Webmaster all up for election
      1. Jeremy & Jentry planning on running, Gi is not, Keli is running for co-president
    4. Highlight ALA courses, etc.
    5. Next Digest for LASSA – Highlight call for elections
    6. Giovanna to send email with info on general election to LASSA, Post on LASSA discord – Email and post on 8 September
    7. Election is 4pm PDT on 22 September
  3. September General Meeting
    1. MEETING LINK: Link no longer active
    2. Election
      1. Closed ballot
      2. Election is 4pm PDT on 22 September
      3. Submissions for candidacy due 19 September by 5pm to ALA email
        1. Position running for, personal intro as to why they want position
    3. Constitution Amendments
      1. Amend name of school – Now School of Information
  4. Amendments to the Constitution
    1. Edit the name of the school to recognize the change
    2. Potentially add amendment to constitute transitionary process
  5. Discord
    1. Do we need rules?
    2. Wait for webmaster to be elected
  6. Reconstituting
    1. Do we want to? What is the benefit?
      1. Potential we could get funds but LASSA can sponsor our events
      2. Historically unknown if there is a benefit to go back to AMS
      3. Limited benefits especially in a digital environment
  7. COVID response events
    1. Highlight Professional Development
      1. Research Data Management Librarian course by Simmon (Free): https://rdmla.github.io/
      2. Library Juice Academy: https://libraryjuiceacademy.com/
      3. ALA courses: https://ecourses.ala.org/
      4. OCLC Courses (many free): https://www.webjunction.org/home.html
    2. Social Media is currently very dormant
    3. Working with Clubs
      1. SLA – Panel on Special Librarians
      2. Overall digital panel
        1. Challenges to scheduling, digital environment
      3. Work with iPOC

 

Motion to Conclude Meeting by Jentry – Second by Jeremy

Meeting concluded at 11:17am