ALIA Board of Directors March 2010

15 March 2010

Take home messages

• Jan Richards welcomed the incoming Board members, Margaret Allen, John Bayliss, Andrew Hocken and Julie Rae, as observers to the meeting.
• The topics for the 2010 NPC would be proposed at the May meeting of the Board
• Jan Richards reported that, on behalf ALIA, she and Sue Hutley had attended the centenary celebrations for the Mitchell Library.
• The Board confirmed its support for the Peak Bodies Forum held annually in Canberra.
• Sue Hutley reported on the significant part played by ALIA in issues with cybersafety and on the support provided by Yahoo and Google for the proposal regarding Public Libraries.
• The draft planning document, based around the standing committees and their work, was discussed and finalised for loading onto the ALIA website.
• The Board confirmed the appointment of Cheryl Haughton, Councillor Win Gaffney, Janice Nitschke (already a member), John Murrell, Sheena Joyce, Cr Graham Smith, and Sylvia Swalling to PLAC.
• The auditors conducted a presentation to The Board as part of the finalisation of the annual report for the 2010 AGM.
• The Board approved the budgets for the 38 Groups which had submitted breakeven/nil or surplus budgets.
• The Board approved a survey of non-members to be conducted later in 2010
• The board appointed Stuart Ferguson and Andrew Shiells to the Education & PD Standing Committee.
• The Board received the conference report fromTerri Pamment, Convenor of the 2009 ALIA National Library & Information Technicians Conference and congratulated and thanked her and the organising committee on the success of the conference.
• The Board approved the 2011 ALIA National Library and Information Technicians Conference and the 2011 5th New Librarians Symposium to be held as back-to-back conferences in September 2011.
• The Board noted that Fides Lawton has accepted the role of Conference Convenor for the proposed 2012 ALIA Biennial Conference to be held in Sydney.
• The Board agreed to review the provisions for Conference Committees as set out in the ALIA Conference Manual.
• The Board provided in principle support for a survey of special libraries as proposed by the Special Libraries Advisory Committee.
• The Board approved the awarding of the HCL Anderson Award to Jan Fullerton in recognition of her work and leadership in the NLA's collaborative and leadership role in Australia.