General Meeting minutes

Agenda for Meeting 25 February 2006

Venue: CARRS-Q QUT Carseldine
Meeting opened: 2:15pm

1. Attendance

Trish D'Arcy, Rowena Brannigan, Jo Wickham, Margaret Rol, , Louise Petersen, Corrinne Hills, Christine Viehbock, Colleen O'Brien, Hilary D'Agostino, Ann Gray, Maxine Cole & Tuti, Robyn Lather, Mary Brewer, Lea ?, Debbie ?

2. Apologies

Sharon Uthmann, Robyn Carlile, Anne Collins, Margaret Mowberry, Lynda Middleton, Elizabeth Harvey, Jennifer Parker.

3. Welcome

Trish D'Arcy welcomed all to the general meeting.
Official thanks to Anna Johnson for the tour of QUT Carseldine Library, the CARRS-Q Resource Centre and the facilities for the meeting.
Congratulations to Sharon Uthmann on the birth of her first child and thanks for all her work as secretary.

4. Confirmation of last meetings minutes

Trish confirmed, Rowena seconded

5. Business arising from minutes

Most of Business arising to be discussed in General Business

AGMs.
This is no longer a formal requirement of committees; groups are now able to decide on this.
This will be discussed further as the ALIA cycle is Jan-Dec and the LT Committee's cycle is June-July.

6. Correspondence

Correspondence In

Sharon Cunningham (ALIA National Office) confirming CARRS-Q event listing on ALIA events page.
ALIA National Office to Sharon - sent list of new Qld LT members and their email addresses.
Georgina Dale to ALIA Office Bearer's list requesting activity report.
Kevin Dudeney (National LT Grp Convenor) re compiling an article for Incite about state groups' activities in 2005.

Correspondence Out

Sharon to ALIA to list CARRS-Q event on ALIA events page.
Sharon to ALIA requesting list of new members with contact details and email address.
Sharon and Margaret M to ALIA & Qld members lists advertising upcoming CARRS-Q event.
Trish sent ALIA national office Annual Report on 15 February.
Trish to Kevin with attachment of a summary of our Qld group's activities for 2005.

7. Business arising from correspondence

Nil

8. Treasure's report

Received Petty Cash Float form. Discussion with group regarding the amount and use of a Petty Cash fund

Useful for urgent bookings, emergency payment etc
Amount suggested $200.00

Group agreed this is good idea.
Jo & Trish to countersign.

9. General Business

TAFE visit to students confirm if Trish and Rowena are enough or should we send more
Purpose of visit:

To introduce and advise about the LT group
To discuss ALIA membership
To look and discuss career pathing, networking, job applications and any other discussion issues that arise on the day.
After discussion with students at the meeting tentatively scheduled to be held on Thursday 9th at Morningside.
Considered 2 speakers sufficient

Decision on LT Dinner and Award to be held in May - should it be held as part of the ALIA QUORUM trivia night or not?

In the past the LT dinner and award always held on LT day - Tuesday
This year LT Committee has raised the possibility of holding the award ceremony at the QUORUM Trivia night.
- Higher profile for library technicians
- Higher turnout for library staff - larger gathering
- Forum for showing the value of LT
- QUORUM very supportive
Vote asked of LT members present - unanimous in favour of a trial
Trish to co-ordinate with QUORUM regarding the award ceremony
Trish to contact Sharon re expression of interest regarding application of the award to be sent.
Feedback on the success of this initiative will be discussed at future meetings.
A non-formal get together to be arranged on the Tuesday night

Careers Expo - expressions of interest to help host this stand

In 2-4 June Careers Expo to be held at Brisbane Convention Centre
LT group has been asked to held man an ALIA/QUORUM Library career stand.
No discussion at this meeting, just a feel for if people would be interested
General approved regarding this initiative received from the group.
A message will go out on the e-list asking for people to nominate their interest and when and for how long they would be available.
Specific times and days will be confirmed closer to the time.

Forum with New Grads in July - anyone know of someone with LT qualifications but working outside the industry

Forum will look at library skills usage in non-library work
No discussion at this meeting, just a feel for if people would be interested
Date to be advised and confirmed
To be discussed at future meetings

Workshopping Forum
This will be a future event to be discussed in more detail closer to the time.
No discussion at this meeting, just a feel for if people would be interested.
The idea behind this forum is to introduce people to different aspects of library work that they may not have been involved in such as Acquisitions, Document Delivery etc.
The format would be small groups with a 'team leader' for each of the areas and each group would rotate through the session over the course of an afternoon.
General consensus from the group indicates that this will be a good initiative.

Meeting closed 3:15pm

Next meeting: General meeting TBA, Planning meeting - mid March?

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