NEASIS Board Meeting Minutes, April 11, 2000

 

I. Minutes approved

 

II. Program Committee Update

 

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.

 

III. NEASIS Stationary

 

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.

 

IV. Membership

 

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.

 

V. Student Paper Award

 

Beata reported that the winner is Christopher A. Badurek, from SUNY Buffalo.

 

VI.  Student Chapter Updates

 

No update.

 

VII. Finance Report

 

Reimbursement checks have been sent where requested.  The ATM VISA cards have been received by Michael, Nicole, and Vince.

 

VIII. Web Team and Site Report

 

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. 

 

 

IX. Chapter Name/Region Change

 

Kris Liberman, Beverly Colby, and Martha Moore will act as a subgroup for this effort.

 

 

Next Meeting:  Tues. May 16 at Kummel