Minutes of the meeting of the WA Forum held on 12 May 2002

Present: B Bruce, C Peter, T Parker, A Raspa, P Hartree, E Bardoe, K Grace, J Allan.

Apologies B R Bruce, S Hughes.
Minutes of previous meeting. Accepted: P Hartree, seconded: B Bruce
Matters arising from previous minutes
6.3 Sharr Medal
Camille to arrange to move list of winners of Sharr Medal to WA Forum website [Done]
Correspondence.
In: E-mail from Susanna Bruhn 9 May re ALIA and professional indemnity insurance
A.I. Bobbie to forward e-mail to Camille, Pam and Kim.
A.I. Elishia and Trudy to check if public sector employees have cover through employers.
A.I. Kim to check with Public Library Group if employees have cover through employers
A.I. Camille to check with KISWA members and Pam to check with Local Studies Group members for interest in professional indemnity insurance through ALIA.
E-mail from Cheryl Hamill 9 May re Phil Teece's visit to Perth. Many organisations interested. Out: none.
Reports
5.1 Convenors report

5.2 Treasurers report
Treasures report for May minutes:

Activity, YTD:

Opening Balance: -$1745.08

Credits: $2963.70

Debits: -$1261.60

End balance (30/4/02) -$42.98

5.3 CPD report
Professional Reading Group met in April with 9 attending: a good turn out. Next meeting will be in early June: proposed to use the LISEKA Project documentation available on website. Comments have been requested and the deadline in 26 June. Intended that following discussion WA Forum will forward comments to ALIA.
The LISEKA Project suggests models for the future development of library education and ALIA membership. Please read and send comments to Bobbie.
Camille is away until the end of May and will ask Jeanette to organise the PRG meeting.
A.I. Jeanette to advise date of PRG meeting in early June.
A.I. Camille to contact Phil Teece at Conference and ask him to nominate a date range, preferably in July, for his visit to Western Australia.

5.4 Biblia
Alethea thanked Camille for all her work on Biblia over the last two months.
May issue of Biblia has been sent to ALIA but is not up yet.
Deadline for next issue has been extended to 31 May to allow time for LIW reports to be written. Hope to include reports from Launch, Lib Techs' breakfast, Local Studies, and Kerry's dinner, also from ARL Group on recent panel discussion.
Advertising: no reply from Sharon and Ian: will just do it and see what happens.
A.I. Trudy has offered to be photographer at Launch.
A.I. Kim has offered to do a cartoon strip for Biblia
A.I. Future of Biblia: Discussion on the future of Biblia to be held at Bobbie's place at 2:00pm on Saturday 8 June. Can be changed to Sunday 9 June if necessary: feedback please. All welcome.

5.5 Local Studies
Symposium being held 31 August-1 September 2003: immediately before the national meeting.

5.6 South West Forum Working Group
Programme is now available. Sheila McHale may open the forum and be the keynote speaker.

5.7 LIW
Launch RSVPs due on 10 May. If you haven't yet, do so asap. Only 30 so far for Launch and 16 for dinner. Please let Bobbie know asap.
Infovision have offered $150 to sponsor Launch. The Special Librarian's Award will be presented. Sam is organising a gift for Verity.
Bobbie had interview with Have a Go News: look out for it.
Not much has been posted to ALIA website calendar.
Other business
6.1 Office-bearers.
It is not necessary for an AGM to be held, but there will be a call for nominations. Bobbie has created an e-mail message to be sent directly to members, not posted to WAIN, requesting people to offer to participate. Nominations close end of May. Positions available: convenor, co-convenor, treasurer, secretary, publicity officer, CPD officer, CPD Committee, Biblia editor.
Treasurer's job could be combined with secretary's as it is very easy. Need to have only 3 office-bearers.
Trudy is resigning as treasurer, but Alethea and Camille will stay on until the end of the year.
Next Meeting
5:30pm Monday 10 June 2002 in room 2.9 LISWA
Meeting closed 7:02pm.

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