ACTive ALIA
ACTive ALIA Meeting, 14 November 2001
The meeting opened at 5:30pm.
- In attendance: Julie Ward (secretary), Jan Gordon (immediate past president), Beth Clary, Roxanne Missingham, Peter Judge, Glenis Matheson, Karna O'Dea, Marion Boyd, Julie May.
- Apologies: Helen Roberts (president), Margaret Drury, Prue Deacon.
- Roxanne welcomed those present to the meeting.
- Minutes of the last meeting:
The minutes from the meeting of 10 October 2001 were accepted.
Moved: Beth, seconded: Glenis, carried.
- Reports
- President's report:
No report was available.
- Treasurer's report:
No report was available.
- Secretary's report:
Julie reported that there were 17 replies so far for the Treasures tour and Christmas function. She suggested we should ask Sven from Kitchen Witchery to cater for the Christmas function. Moved: Marion, seconded: Julie M, carried.
ALIA has expressed concern that the costs of proACTive keep going over budget. A discussion followed on the newsletter. Branch believed that the newsletter was fully funded and critical to the groups and all ALIA members in the ACT. Beth suggested that maybe other groups should contribute a small amount to proACTive costs. A discussion followed on changing the newsletter title slightly to include all groups. Moved: Roxanne, seconded: Jan, carried.
Action: Peter will change the wording in the heading from 'The newsletter of ACTive ALIA' to 'A newsletter for all ALIA members in the ACT'.
Action: Julie will speak to Susanne Bruhn about newsletter budgeting costs.
- Reports from Groups:
Technicians
Beth reported that there would be a potluck dinner for the end of year function and goodbye to Donna Reid on the 1st December. It will be held at Ursula Macdermott's home from 4:30pm. Please RSVP to Beth or Marion.
- Specials
No report.
- URLs
Cliff Law will talk at the URLs meeting next Tuesday 12:30pm.
- APSIG
There was an APSIG travellers' tales meeting yesterday. SallyAnn talked about public libraries in Singapore and various aspects such as free internet access, lots of public terminals, people prefer to read books in library instead of taking them out, coffee shop in the library center.
- General business
Future activities: Proposed activities for next year
Action: Julie W will book the conference Room at NLA for every second Wednesday.
February - Tom Ruthven to report ILL benchmarking study.
March - Nick Smith and Helen Roberts to talk on copyright. Action: Julie W will approach Nick.
May - Australian Library Week function.
June/July - An electronic products seminar/workshop (Suggested by Karna who will co-ordinate).
August - Midwinter dinner.
September - Future and evolving roles of information professionals (Jan will co-ordinate).
- Any other business
- Conferences
There was a discussion on the organisation and extent of ALIA conferences in the future. A new model has been proposed which would reduce the number of sectoral/separate ALIA conferences. ACTive ALIA considered the proposal and developed a set of principles to take to the National Policy Congress:
- conferences are critical to continuing professional development;
- sectoral conferences are very important to enable development opportunities and also to obtain information;
- there is a need to share information that is of direct assistance to members and libraries though conferences, case studies and real life situations as well as theory;
- we acknowledge that budgets are shrinking and stretched but that there is still a need for a range of conferences to suit the needs of different sectors and library areas;
- ALIA needs to establish a cross sectoral role by supporting a range of conferences and the future of conferences needs discussion and consultation.
- National Policy Conference:
Julie M nominated Jan Gordon as the delegate to attend the National Policy Conference. Moved: Roxanne, seconded: Karna, carried.
- Responsibilities of the ACT local presence officer (LPO):
LPO will co-ordinate events, be the RSVP contact for the events and be ACTive ALIA treasurer. She will be used on a needs basis. If any Groups would like to utilize the LPO the Group's nominator should contact her directly.
The meeting closed at 7:00pm. The next meeting will be the Christmas function.
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