ALIA Top End

Committee meeting Wednesday 20 February 2002

NT University, 5:00pm

1. Present:

Judith Beach (chair), Linda Winzar (minutes), Pat Whalan, Julie Fawcett, Ann Ritchie, Larraine Shepherd, Barbara Cotton, Felicity Williams, Stelios Podias, Lorna Hooper Apologies Ruth Quinn, Robin Hempel, Di Wilcox, Sarah White, Jayshree Mamtora.

2. Confirmation of previous minutes

Accepted: Stelios Podias, seconded Barbara Cotton

3. Business arising.

3.1 Naida Tattersalls Visit Ruth to report back to group at next meeting regarding actions from January.

4. Budget.

4.1 Budget for 2002 was sent to National Office $20.00 income and $75.00 expenditure.

5. CPD activities.

5.1 VALA presentation date for Phillipa Webb's presentation confirmed for 17 April 2002. Linda to organise venue for meeting and presentation. Check if this presentation might be able to follow the Electronic Resources Working Group Meeting with the view of attracting more attendees.

5.2 Mentoring Stelios and Anne reported on their meeting to draft a proposal for the Mentoring Program. The proposal was circulated and includes a list of purpose. They recommended that a meeting/workshop to discuss mentoring be held at the end of April and possibly held at a venue within NTU to attract students. Ruth to contact Christine Hart and Elizabeth Desailly about how ALIA could best promote to students. The group felt that it would be good to provide dinner or supper at this event. Barbara to call for another member on the working group via the e-list.

6. Support for isolated and remote members.

6.1 Isolated and remote members list. Barbara has checked the group membership list and there are 4 members from within the NT but outside of Darwin/Palmerston/Litchfield regions from: 1 x Adelaide River, 1 x Alice Springs, 1 x Batchelor and 1 x Nhulunbuy. There are also 7 interstate members and 1 international member. The group had originally planned for the support to be available to members south of Coomalie and North of Tennant Creek and to include isolated areas.

7. NT Awards.

7.1 Revised awards. The awards working party (Joanne, Sarah and Linda) met and revised the awards. The revised documents were placed on the e-list for discussion, no comments received to date. Linda presented the revised awards documents to the group and discussion followed. It was agreed to include a trophy for the individual prize and limit the cash reward to $500.00. It was also agreed to provide a perpetual trophy for the organisational prize and ensure the cheque is cashable. Linda to put revised document on e-list.

8. Communication and Networking.

8.1 Interface Barbara to laise with Kay about an issue in April. Barbara chase up the following articles: Mentoring - Anne Ritchie Awards - Linda Robin - Australia Day Awards Kay - Who's where.

9. Directory.

9.1 Ruth to report back to group at next meeting regarding actions from January.

10. Conference support.

10.1 Ruth to report back to group at next meeting regarding actions from January.

11. Other business.

11.1 ALIA TOPEND support for recent graduates. Julie expressed thanks for group's commitment to posting selected NT positions vacant on the e-list. The group decided to create a Mentoring link from the group website to promote this service that may also be of interest to recent graduates.

12. Next meeting/close

Meeting closed 7:00pm.

Wednesday 20 March at Casuarina Public Library.