I.
Minutes approved
Award Program: Nicole reported that there was a new award to be presented at the awards program, Student Member of the Year, in addition to the planned Chapter Member and Best Student Paper in Information Science awards.
Action
Item:
Beata
will send Michael a copy of the winning paper.
May
17 Program: Deb is still confirming the
Cisco speaker. Everything else is
confirmed including hotels and flights for three out of town speakers. We need 50 attendees to break even.
Action
Item:
Beata
will send Nicole a possible name for underwriting the afternoon refreshments
Summer
Programs: Joanne Ren, of BALM, is
working on a summer web database program.
Rachel Cheng is organizing a hands-on workshop on audio on the web. It’s hoped to have the latter in two
locations.
Open
Source Program Tapes: Beata will email
Stephanie the number of copies currently requested and will make five extra to
have on hand at the May 17 event, along with order forms.
Action
Item: Beata will take care of Open
Source program tapes.
It was decided that we would order some supplies with the NEASIS logo for our programs, including folders and possibly pens.
Action
Items:
Michael
will contact HQ about the domain for the NEASIS web in order to get our URL
correct for logo items.
Nicole
will order pens after checking on the possible ASIS name change.
Nicole
and Beata will bring a supply to the May 17 event.
Beata reported that many people at the April ASIS Summit took the flyers she created about NEASIS activities and volunteer opportunities.
Chapter
updates for January and February just arrived, so she has not yet compiled
them. Looks to be approximately 230
members.
No
update on the recruitment initiative.
Beata reported that the winner is Christopher A. Badurek, from SUNY Buffalo.
No
update.
Reimbursement
checks have been sent where requested.
The ATM VISA cards have been received by Michael, Nicole, and Vince.
We
need to define what is needed for the web site. Initial suggestion was to make
the NEASIS local calendar more visible. The web team is composed of Darcy Duke, Diann Smothers, and one
other to be determined, in addition to Ginnie.
They will serve two year terms where two members rotate off each year
and two stay on.
Action
Item:
Michael
will email the board for feedback after members have had time to review the
site.
Kris Liberman, Beverly Colby, and Martha Moore will act as a subgroup for this effort.