Michael Leach, incoming Chair, welcomed new board members. Michael reports that he is reviewing previous ASIS chapter annual reports for ideas for this year. He is also particularly interested in building connections with student chapters.
Outgoing Chair, Leslie Donnell, presented an award of recognition and a gift of appreciation to Peter Cohn, who is ending his two-year role as Chapter Secretary. He remains on as Archivist for the chapter.
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At start of new ASIS year:
checking account: $ 6,824.77
CD's: $12,137.62
Total $18,962.39
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The new NEASIS Directory has been published at a net $754.80 expense. Beata was able to sell ads for $1000 each to Northernlight and to Ebsco. The Chapter has three new members, all students. Transfers in=1. Dropped=6.
Louisa Worthington will become a member of the Retention and Retainment subcommittee.
A student member, Moe Baustein, is interested in becoming newsletter editor, as of January.
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Ginnie is willing to continue as Webmaster, but will not be able to address the duties for several weeks. She is willing to have someone else take over.
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Leslie wants to put an interactive poll on the web site, but this will require cgi scripts that the ASIS site can support.
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Michael is gathering a list of chapter Past Chairs for a history section of the website. We may want to make the site searchable at some point.
Report on the Dec. 6 Open Systems Program: 52 are signed up; most are not ASIS members; many are from out of the New England area. Nicole's husband is making an audiotape of the program and they will try to put it on the website as audio. Mary Francis is preparing a bibiliography. Stephanie Schmidt has done a tremendous amount of work putting the program together.
The Program Committee needs new members. Nicole has some prospects to contact. Students can be useful for assisting at registration and other tasks at programs in exchange for free registration, but regular committee members are needed also.
A possible topic for the Spring 2000 meeting is "MyLibrary" technology. Nicole has some prospects for speakers.
We should develop a FAQ or brief policy/procedures manual for the web site. This should include information about how board members perform their jobs, to which future board members can refer. Honorariums will be paid for the Spring program speakers. Board members felt that equivalent honorarium amounts should be given to all the speakers.
Simmons has a new liaison for the board for the coming year: Paul Aloisio. Approximately 50 students attended the Oct. 14th program with Eugene Garfield. Michael would like to do another joint program with the Simmons student chapter this year. He is also working with student chapters at other schools: URI, SUNY Albany, Syracuse University, and Southern Connecticut State. We discussed ways to support leaders in the student chapters. By assisting in attendance of programs? Expansion of the Student Paper Award? Looking for corporate sponsorship to extend more awards? Michael asked that board members think about possibilities.
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