NEASIST Board Minutes: 12/6/00

Present:  Beata, Jonah, Nicole, Vince

Minutes: Jonah

Action Items:

-Jonah will give Peter Cohn copies of any available flyers and packets of from past events, which are missing from the NEASIST archive.

-Beata will ask about by-laws regarding chapter official elections.

-Vince will ask Michael about the possibility of PayPal use for Credit Card processing.

-Jonah will bring approved minutes from previous meeting to Pat F.

-Jonah will ask Laura Reiner to generate a list of Non-ASIST members who attended the Wireless event.

-We need a new logo from National to use on the WebPages, fliers, promotional items, etc.

-Jonah will look into getting Sheri Turkle to possibly speak at the Annual Awards dinner

-Nicole will ask the Wireless event speakers about the possibility of transcribing their presentations for the Special Issue of the Bulletin of ASIST

-Kris Liberman is contacting Doug Kaylor regarding NEASIS boundaries.

Minutes:

Beata gave a synopsis of the first Membership Committee meeting, which was "quite successful"-

1. Beata will use labels to correct the out-dated address on the membership solicitation cards for the Wireless event
2. Beata displayed the 2001 Membership Directory, which cost $ 2,488.57, and were mass-mailed on December 2, 2000.
3. In 2000, there were 13 dropped memberships, 13 renewed memberships, and 2 new memberships (both Simmons students) for a total of 267 members.
4. Kris Liberman is to speak at a Simmons event in April.
5. It was suggested that we follow up with Non-ASIST program attendees to promote membership.
6. Promotional items were discussed (such as magnets, pens, etc.) These will be created when the new logo is available.
7. Lydia Ievens might consult to improve Beata's members database.
8. Beata met with Christopher Badurek, from SUNY Buffalo, who won the 2000 NEASIS Student Travel Award at ASIS National.

Jonah gave an update from the Program Committee:

1. The Wireless Event is ready to happen.
2. Nicole discussed announcements that she would make as the moderator of the Wireless Event.
3. Jonah and Nicole described the brief amount of work that has been done on the Joint Virtual event with the LA Chapter.  Basically, members of both Program Committees met at National and shared some ideas.  The topic will most likely be Distance Learning.

Vince gave the Treasurers' Update:

1. The checking account has $ 8,105.08
2. The Chapter also holds $ 12,778.60 in Certificates of Deposit.

Jessica could not make this meeting, but sent the following info to Nicole:

1. The Student Chapter won Student Chapter of the Year at the ASIS Annual Meeting.
2. Candy Schwartz won an award for her service to the organization.
3. The Student Chapter had two successful Events this semester- an evening talk with Lynn Wojick from Northern Light and a lunch gathering with Seth Maislin of Lycos
4. The Student Chapter's Spring events will include a panel of alumni on alternative careers for librarians.

Regarding honorariums for Program speakers/presenters:

1. The Board agreed upon uniform honorariums for the Wireless Event speakers.  When a talk consists of more than one presenter, the honorarium is split.
2. Future honorariums are pending a Board decision with more members present.

Jonah spoke about the planned Special Issue of the Bulletin:

1. The speakers from the Wireless Event will be asked about allowing their presentations to be included (12/11/00 UPDATE: all have agreed.-jjj)
2. Anne Cushing has agreed to be the editor, and provide transcribers.
3. Jonah will give a CD duplicate of the tapes to Anne for transcription as soon as one can be made.
4. Michael Jiminez has agreed to update and include his extensive bibliography on wireless technologies.
5. If all goes as planned, the Bulletin will be released in May/June.

Regarding the extension of the geographic boundaries of the "New England Chapter" to include New York, and possibly parts of Canada:

1. Doug Kaylor's response is pending.
2. Kris Liberman will contact him.

Next Meeting: January 10, 2001, 4:30-6PM Barker Library Conference Room, MIT.