18 February 1998 at MIT
Next Meeting: 15 April 1998 at MIT
Attending:
Pat Flanagan (Chair), Peter Cohn (Minutes),
Ginnie Iandiorio, Michael Leach, Martha Moore, Beata Panagopoulos
Minutes from the January meeting:
approved.
Report on Awards Event:
So far 15 people have signed up for the Awards dinner.
Everything seems to be going smoothly.
Program Committee Report:
[Leslie reporting via email.] The Extreme Searching program with NENON was a big success.
NENON and NEASIS each earned $1042 from this event.
We spent $420 for booklets and $900 for Ran Hock who led the program.
The committee is still working on the GIS program.
They're looking at May 6, 7, or 8 as possible program dates.
They've lined up a couple of speakers and are waiting to hear back
from others.
NEASIS Newsletter:
[Michael reporting.] The newsletter was mailed out last week.
Michael had 250 printed and mailed out 223.
The cost was $200.40 including postage.
The web version of the newsletter is almost done.
Michael hopes to have the next issue of the newsletter
ready to go by April 15.
For this issue he would like to have profiles of our award winners
and possibly pictures from the award ceremony.
A report on the web workshop would also be nice. Action:
Peter will check with a photographer friend to see if
she would be interested in working this event.
If she's not available Martha will ask someone she knows.
Student Essay Award:
[Beata reporting.]
Beata has sent out an electronic announcement soliciting
essays to ASIS-L, and SLA-Boston
(though she doesn't know if SLA posted it yet.)
Jeff Pomerantz is going to post and announcement at Simmons.
Beata is also sending paper announcements to several other schools
including SUNY Albany, URI, etc.
She has a committee to evaluate the papers:
Peter Cohn, Martha Moore, Margret Lippert, herself, and David Suiter.
Membership:
[Beata reporting.]
The January membership update listed 4 new members, 6 dropped, 14 renewals, and 4 transfer ins.
Other Business:
Martha distributed a draft of the NEASIS by-laws for us to look at. Action: All board members will read the by-laws and email
comments to Martha before the next meeting.
We decided that we should start putting our minutes on the NEASIS web page. Action: From now on Peter will send the approved minutes to Charity for posting on the web site. He will also send them to Headquarters.
Pat asked everyone to email their reports to her a couple of days before a board meeting if they won't be able to attend.
Summary of Action Items
Action: Peter will check with a photographer friend to see if she would be interested in working this event.
If she's not available Martha will ask someone she knows.
Action: All board members will read the by-laws
and email comments to Martha before the next meeting.
Action: From now on Peter will send the approved minutes
to Charity for posting on the web site.
He will also send them to Headquarters.
Action: Pat will send an announcement of the awards
event to ASIS-L.
