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Present |
Ruth Quinn, Sarah White, Pat Whalan, Julie Fawcett, Judith Beach, Linda Winzar, Joanne Anderson, Barbara Cotton, Jayshree Mamtora, Stelios Podias, Lorna Hooper, (late) Felicity Williams, Ann Ritchie. |
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Apologies |
Ann Alderslade, Di Wilcox |
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Confirmation of previous minutes 14 November 2001 |
Moved by Judith Beach, seconded by Stelios Podias.
New agenda format is required because we need to report to ALIA National Office - can't be quite as informal as orginally planned. |
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Business arising |
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3.1 Alan Bundy |
Has forwarded a thank-you letter re visit and dinner. Ruth thanked all involved. |
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3.2 NILLS |
List of participants is on our page on the website. |
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3.3 NTU Awards |
Confirmation that we do awards in both NTU Library Courses. |
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3.4 Group support ofiicer duties |
Pat Whalan/Bruce Lowth confirmed via National Office that Barbara can be used by LATTe and that the time could go on the one timesheet with notation of whether duties performed for TOPEND or LATTe. |
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3.5 PLNT |
Conference not going ahead due to lack of funding |
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3.6 National Policy Congress |
Focus of the NPC was that during this new way of doing things, we need more communication. It was also clarified that the Board of Directors are a Limited company and they are within their rights to make decisions. Conferences were the main issue. The official report of the National Policy of Congress will be available in a couple of days on the website. This whole meeting was driven by the Board and cost the Association approximately $200 000. |
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3.7 Draft NT Information Bill |
ALIA National Office is drafting a response. Ruth has brought up previously that if it tries to address privacy and access it is trying to achieve too much. ALIA National Office has said it is one of the best drafts that they have seen. |
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Budget |
The draft included the PLNT speaker. We can now delete this expense from the budget. We need to submit to ALIA National Office the budget with a group application form. We also need to resubmit the newsletter questionnaire. |
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CPD activities |
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5.1 Conference report back |
The Group meeting on 20 February will include oral reports. Barbara has contacted Vicki, Di, Stelios who will attend and give reports. Also contacted Pam McKean who indicated she would give a report but didn't think she received financial assistance from TOPEND. Pam also indicated that she did not hear back from the Group regarding her application. Action: Linda to follow up. Barbara wasn't sure if she had contacted Robin re reports. Action: Barbara to check and follow up. Also to check who is on e-list - more subs to promote meetings to a wider membership. |
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5.2 VALA presentation |
Pippa to present to a meeting in the near future. Possible new date, Thursday mid-April is being considered. Action: Linda to follow up with Pippa. |
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5.3 Mentoring |
Sydney has a regular meeting. Ann started a program in WA for students and is CPD officer for Health libraries.Stelios was also involved in WA. Considering a session on mentoring. This will be a topic for dicussion at our March meeting. We will promote this meeting to NTU students. LATTe do this promotion to students at NTU. Action: Ruth to liaise with Elizabeth Desailly/LATTe. Sarah is to check if the March meeting can be held in the DPL meeting room. |
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Support for isolated and remote members |
Need to consider how we can do this. Action: Barbara to check list to see how many remote members we have and get list to Ruth to contact. |
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NT Awards |
Library week is 20-27 May. It would be good to get information out in March. What structure do we want the awards to take? ALIA National Office are reviewing awards. There has been discussion in the past that the awards need revamping. Action: Sub-committee formed to look at this - Joanne, Linda and Sarah - to report back by next meeting. |
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Conference support |
This is a priority because of our location. Look at support for workshops, visits, conferences.
Maybe create a travel fund. Action: Ruth will look and draft and then put on e-list. |
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Communicating and networkng |
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9.1 InterFACE |
Well done, Kaye. We would like to see the next edition in April Newsletter |
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Directory |
This is normally outsourced to NTU library technician students. Do we still want a printed one or an on-line version. Support given to both, acknowledged that not all members would have access to an on-line one. Action: Ruth to check re availability of students to publish another edition. |
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Other business |
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11.1 Museum and library and information services training packages |
It is a draft covering only museums so far. CHARTS rep is Felicity. Let her know if you know anyone who has used the package. |
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11.2 NTU BLIM |
This is under review. ALIA needs to get input into this review. Ruth to circulate paperwork when received. |
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11.3 Core Values |
If you want to comment, you need to do so soon - 18 January 2001. |
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11.4 Naida Tattersalls visit |
This is a personal visit to Darwin but she is willing to talk about LISEKA. (Library and Information Science Education for the Knowledge Age). Will talk about the role of Board of Directors also. |
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11.5 Colleen Pynes retirement |
Farewell to be hosted at the Health Library at Royal Darwin Hospital on Wednesday 30 January. It was agreed that the Group will present Colleen with a small gift of appreciation. |
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11.6 Library industry positions |
Julie has been contacted by recent technician graduates who have expressed concern about a lack of library positions. In ensuing discussion Pat informed the meeting that there is a freeze across the board on NTG positions, which is not just applicable to libraries. It was noted that there have been some positions advertised which haven't attracted a large number of applicants. It was felt that employment opportunities were reasonable in comparison to other states. when positions become available the meeting agreed to put these on the e-list. Ruth to write a letter to the Chief Minister re library positions and the Director NTLIS position. |
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11.7 Harry Potter
family evening |
To be hosted by DPLIS at Casuarina Public Library this Friday 18 January at a cost of $5.00 per family. |
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No other business, meeting closed 7:00pm. Next meeting to be held Wednesday 20 February 5:00pm in the Conference Room NTU Library. |
