ALIA Special Libraries Section (SA)

Meeting minutes

8:10am Thursday 3 February 2004 at 'Se-Juiced', corner Pirie Street and Hindmarsh Square, Adelaide.

1. Present

Andrew Meier, Rachel Teesdale-Smith, Silvia Muscardin, Benjamin Wheal, Blan MacDonagh, Tanya Hook.

2. Meeting open

8:15am.

3. Apologies

Caryl Armstrong, Catherine Daniels, Kathleen Nugent, Marie Francis.

4. Minutes of previous meeting

Accepted.

5. Business arising from the minutes

5.1 New committee

Andrew Meier, Benjamin Wheal, Blan MacDonagh, Caryl Armstrong, Catherine Daniel, Kathleen Nugent, Marie Francis, Rachel Teesdale-Smith, Silvia Muscardin, Tanya Hook.

5.2 Office Bearers: Convenor, Secretary, ALIA SA Rep

Convenor: Rachel Teesdale-Smith
Secretary and ALIA SA Rep: Blan MacDonagh
Treasurer: Tanya Hook
Health Libraries Rep: Caryl Armstrong

6. Correspondence

6.1 Correspondence in

ALIA confirmed receiving Andrew's article, re: Spec SA virtual meetings. The article is scheduled to appear in the January-February issue of InCite. (Article is in InCite vol. 26 Jan-Feb 2005, p. 44.)

6.2 Correspondence out

None.

7. Reports

7.1 Treasurer report

No activities recorded.

7.2 Law libraries rep report

No law libraries rep appointed, yet.

7.3 ALIA SALT rep report

No SALT rep appointed, yet.

7.4 ALIA SA rep report

No ALIA SA committee meeting held, yet.

8. New business

8.1 Committee meetings

Day, time, location and format.
Face-to-face meetings: Thursday 8:10am suits everybody.
Virtual meetings: to be held occasionally. Time to be discussed.

8.2. ALIA education statement review

Stage 2.
Silvia to forward (e-mail) Rachel correspondence and Spec SA participation in stage 1.
Our group should focus on redefining its core business.

9. Any other business

9.1 Meetings

Informal.
Start discussion by e-mail and convene to finalise issues.

9.2 Recruiting committee members

Advertise on e-lists: Benjamin: Govt. libraries, SALIN, New Graduate group. Stress this is a CPD recognised activity.
Can non-ALIA members be on the committee? Eg. Non-librarian information professionals. Rachel to e-mail list to start discussion.

9.3 2005 events

Start getting ideas.

9.4 Library tours

Can be extended to information centres, museums, archives.

10. Next meeting

8:10am Thursday 3 March at Se-Juiced.

11. Meeting close

Please e-mail reports as straight text or document attachments so that they can be incorporated into the minutes.