ALIA Top End

Committee meeting 16 October 2002

NTU Palmerston Campus Library

1. Present: Ruth Quinn, Jayshree Mamtora, Judith Beach, Julie Adams, Dianne Wilcox, Sarah White, Linda Winzar.

   Apologies: Barbara Cotton, Robin Hempel, Joanne Anderson, Stelios Podias, Julie Fawcett.

2. Minutes Confirmation of previous minutes held September 18th: accepted by Dianne, seconded by Judith.
    
3. Business arising

   3.1. CPD Plan: Linda to action from previous minutes.

   3.2. End-of-year dinner and Lothar's presentation: Accommodation and venue arranged. Presentation titled, 'Victim of Vision' The flyer will be finalised soon. Linda to provide LATIS e-mail to promote to schools.

   3.3. Next meeting: Will be held at Kormilda College. Barbara to arrange for directions and see if we can have a tour of the library.

   3.4. National Policy Congress: The group met to discuss National Policy Congress items. Ruth to post the outcome of discussion to the e-list. Ruth recommended members look at; information agenda papers, NPC progress report and draft operational plans. Ruth will report back to the group on National Policy Congress at the November meeting.

4. Budget
   Dianne table income/expenditure.
   Cover charge for Christmas dinner/Lothar's presentation was discussed and agreed to as: presentation only - members $3 ; non-members $8, dinner and presentation - members $35 ; non-members $40.
   Barbara to see if sponsorship for presentation can be gained, ie. commercial sources, Novotel Atrium etc.
   Priorities for next years budget will be: Group Support Officer, Printing/Postage, 2 CPD activities, Awards, Newsletter.
   Ruth and Dianne will work on draft budget by November meeting.
    
5. CPD activities

   
   5.1. Myers Briggs: Joanne found out the OCPE only offer workshops for Government at a high level. Barbara found out from the Institute for Type Development that they would look at delivering the Myers Briggs up here if we have a group of 12 or more.
   Jayshree spoke of a management course by John Morgan which focuses on libraries and general issues. She recommended this to the group.
   Linda to add this idea to the CPD e-mail and seek interest.

6. Support for isolated and remote members

   6.1. Letter: Ruth has prepared a letter and given to Barbara to action.

7. Awards
   No items
    
8. Communication and networking

   8.1. InterFACE: Looking at publishing this on line next year.

   8.2. E-list subscribers: Barbara to action from previous minutes.

9. Directory

   9.1. On line directory: looking at producing the directory online with a print option at cost recovery.

10. Conference Support

    10.1. Conference report: Linda to arrange with Barbara for Sarah White's conference report to be circulated.

11. Other Business

    11.1. October meeting: Recorded thanks to Jayshree for a very interesting and informative visual presentation 'From London to the South Pacific' on her career.

12. Next meeting/close
    Meeting closed 7:05pm, next meeting 20 November 5:00pm at Kormilda College.