ALIA Special Libraries Section (SA)

Meeting minutes

4 November 2004.

Of the committee meeting to be held on 3:00pm Thursday 4 November 2004, in the ALIAnet standard room 'sa'.

NOTE. Online meeting will follow a more informal agenda. There won't be any correspondence, or reports, or new business. Reports can be e-mailed to Chris to be incorporated into the minutes.

1. Facilitator

Silvia Muscardin

2. Meeting open

3:00pm

3. Present

Andrew Meier, Blan MacDonagh, Marie Francis, Kathleen Nugent, Silvia Muscardin, Vicki Richardson

4. Apologies

Benjamin Wheal, Catherine Daniel, Chris Ridler, Jackie Williams, Tanya Hook

5. Minutes of previous meeting

Can be found online.

6. Business arising from the minutes

6.1 Update of the 'round up for the year' event

Ten RSVP's received for the tour of the Migration Museum, and seven for the MBC Bar, with two people still undecided. All committee members are invited to send their RSVP's if they haven't already done so. Both Rachel and Silvia need the number of participants to finalise the bookings. If RSVP's above the maximum number of 20 are received for the museum, the tour could be repeated in the future.

7. Correspondence

7.1 Correspondence in

E-mail from Juliet Marconi to Silvia Muscardin, re: possible visit of Steve Hiller to Adelaide for a seminar on effective library assessment. Potential joint event with the AGLIN (Australian Government Library and Information Network) and the ALLG (Australian Law Libraries Group) SA. See 8.1.

8. New business

8.1 Steve Hiller's visit to Adelaide.

This item was added to the discussion at the eleventh hour for some preliminary input from the committee.

The committee debated whether it would be feasible for specials SA to join the AGLIN in hosting an un-scheduled visit from Steve Hiller. As a joint event, it would be a less intensive organisational effort for our group.

The possible drawbacks anticipated by Vicki are: high cost to members and the relevance of the topic to Specials and Law librarians. It was decided to reconsider this event when more information becomes available.

9. Any other business

9.1 Andrew proposed to prepare an article about the Specials SA committee online meetings for inCite.

This contribution came after Silvia had declared the meeting concluded. However, taking into account the time delay in posting the contribution to the chat room, it was accepted as the last contribution.

10. next meeting

The next meeting will be the informal AGM held during the 'round up for the year': 5:30pm Thursday 24th November 2004, at the MBC Bar (Embassy Hotel) 96 North Terrace, Adelaide.

11. Meeting close

3:29 pm