ALIA Queensland Library Technicians

Annual General Meeting minutes

Meeting held on 8 June 2004 at the Drug-Arm Resource Centre, 83 Castlemaine Road, Milton. The meeting was opened at 5:50pm by Jennifer Parker, Convenor.

Present: Anne Collins, Ann Gray, Anna Drew, Sharon Uthmann, Lyn Bogaarts, Robyn Carlile, Jo-Anne Dusha, Megan Maguire, Jennie Nicholl, Pauline Lister, Sue Sawyer, Margaret Mowberry and Jennifer Parker, Helen Trochoulias, Trish D'Arcy, Anna Johnson

Apologies: Maxine Cole, Marion Campey, Joanne Hague and Robyn Lather

Minutes

The minutes of the previous AGM (11 June 2003) were read by Jennifer Parker, Anne Collins moved that they be accepted, seconded by Jo-Anne Dusha. Carried by general consensus.
There was no business arising from AGM minutes.

Annual report

Convenor, Jennifer Parker, presented the Annual Report - copy available on the website. Jennifer summarised all our activities for the year and conveyed thanks to all members, and the committee, for their support. Jennifer then moved that the report be accepted as an accurate record of the Group's events over the past year (2003-2004). Carried by general consensus.

Treasurer's report

Helen Trochoulias presented the report. There will be $165.80 in our account with ALIA after payment of all expenses. Deposits for the year totalled $1376.73 with expenses being $1198.85. The Group's annual dinner proved once again to be successful with a profit of $217.80.

Election of office-bearers and committee 2004-2005

Jennifer handed chair of the meeting over to Sue Sawyer at this point. All positions were declared vacant and nominations were called for 2004-2005. The following is the result of the election:

Sue moved that the nominations be accepted. Carried by general consensus.
* Megan Maguire will follow up on this

The AGM closed at 6:20pm

Following the closure of the meeting, Margaret Mowberry, the Drug-Arm Resource Centre's library technician, welcomed all present and thanked them for their donations of food, clothing and money. She then gave a short, but very informative, talk on the history of Drug-Arm and the Resource Centre's activities:

• Drug-Arm actually began in 1849 as part of the temperance movement, eventually becoming the Women's Christian Temperance Union in 1885 and had as it's headquarters the Canberra Hotel in Ann Street, Brisbane.
  Drug-Arm is a specialist alcohol and other drug agency which has a Christian ethics-based program and a philosophy of minimisation. It provides a range of prevention, rehabilitation and management interventions that support individuals, families and communities to reduce the harm associated with alcohol and other drug use e.g Street Outreach Service (SOS), Mobile Outreach Support and Health Program by Integrated Teams (MOSHPIT), Home Assessment and Response Teams (HART) and the Drug-Arm BAILEY Program (Building Awareness, Innovation and Leadership through the Empowerment of Youth and Families).
• The Resource Centre is the only specialist substance abuse public lending library in Queensland. It is completely self-funded - Margaret's position is solely maintained through funding from the Rotary Club.
• For cataloguing it's collection the Resource Centre utilises the DDC system and LCSH. It's resources include books, videos, posters, brochures and fact sheets (available at a cost of 20 cents each) education kits, and journals. In order to generate income the Centre has also created, as a fundraiser, it's own publication 'Matters of Substance'.

Following her talk, Margaret invited all present to view the collection then, on behalf of the Group, Jennifer presented Margaret with a gift in acknowledgment of her contribution to the meeting.

Next meetings

General Meeting
To be held in August on a date to be fixed

Committee Meeting
Tuesday 13 July 2004