ALIA WA Forum

19 September 2003 meeting minutes

Minutes of ALIA West meeting held Tuesday 16 September 2003 at 5:30pm in Room 2.9 Alexander Library Building, State Library of WA

1. Attendance
   1.1 Present: Attendance: Jeanette Hill, Judy Allan, Andrew Black, Camille Peters, Bronwyn Mathiesen, Jennifer McAuliffe
   1.2 Apologies: Rose Hockley, Lisa Williams, Glenn Day.
   
   
2. Minutes of the previous meeting:
   Accepted by: Judy Allan, Camille Peters
   
   
3. Business arising
   Treasurers' reports received, group reports not yet received.
   
   
4. Correspondence
   In:
   

   Subject

   Response from Ivan Trundle re Biblia access for non-members

   To Camille in response to her invitation to attend the CPD planning meeting:

   Roberta Cowan - has offered to run a session on bibliographic software

   Terena Solomons - offer to run a Myers-Briggs workshop

   Barbara Bolton

   Stephanie Rowe

   Kerry Jefferies

   Out:
   No correspondence
   
   
5. Reports
   5.1 Treasurer's report
   No change to account balance
   5.2 Biblia Report
   September's issue is out and contributions are coming in for October.
   5.3 Awards
   Sponsorship needed still. Carried over to next meeting.
   
   
6. Other business
   6.1 2004 Budget
   Deadline is 1 October 2003. Camille to prepare a budget based on the programme suggested below.
   6.2 CPD - Alternative Options
   Jeanette suggested having a central listing (ie Biblia) of all CPD events from other groups to which people could refer and that all other groups be contacted to ensure that all events are listed. Camille pointed out that it is difficult to get other groups to pass this information on - she has to look for information about events to put these into Diary Dates in Biblia.
   
   In response to a suggestion from a librarian in Derby for events that Public Librarians could attend, Camille will contact the State Library for the dates of Country Library weeks and will disseminate this information to other groups with a request that they consider these dates when scheduling events.
   
   2004 CPD Camille has developed a possible programme:
   • February Icebreaker: Library visit, social function, inexpensive nibbles and drinks.
   • March Professional Reading Group
   • April Workshop - Roberta Cowan - bibliographic software (Endnote)
   • May Library and Information Week - Awards
   • June AGM (new committee needed) - dinner afterwards
   • July Professional Reading Group
   • August Terena Solomons - Myers-Briggs workshop (minimum number required)
   • October Seminar Topic: Careers - perhaps in conjunction with the WA Mentoring Group and with GuMPers in mind. Ideas for talks - current trends in labour market
   Camille will contact Georgina re membership surveys of perceived CPD needs.
   6.3 Infowest
   Infowest database not yet moved from Arachnet to ALIA website and we may need to pay for another three months. The database needs to be advertised to all users and potential users and they must also be advised of the impending move, via WAIN, ALIAWest and Biblia. Jeanette to do.
   
   
7. Meeting closed at 7:05pm.
   Meetings to be held on 3rd Tuesday in each month.

Next meeting to be held Tuesday 21 October 2003 at 5:30pm in Room 2.9 of the Alexander Library Building, State Library Western Australia.