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NEASIST Board Minutes, April 25, 2001Present: Nicole Hennig (Chair), Jonah Jenkins, Beata Panagopoulos, Vince Kimball, Michelle Knight (student chapter rep.), Pat Flanagan (minutes)
I. Minutes from the March meeting were approved with changesII. Reports:
Membership - Beata
No new member lists have been received from HQ since the last meeting so membership numbers from March stand.
Lydia is almost done creating the FileMaker Pro membership database. She will be giving it to Beata on April 26th. It includes over 500 records and will permit producing the NEASIS Membership Directory from the database.
There is a winner of the Student Travel Award. Five jurors reviewed the papers. The Board discussed and agreed to recognize a close runner up with a gift certificate. The winner is Stephen Paling (Syracuse University) for his paper, "Classification, Rhetoric and the Classificatory Horizon." Runner up honoree is Jeffrey Charles Brunskill (SUNY Buffalo) for "Image Attributes: An Investigation of Scientific Diagrams."
Program Committee - Jonah
Awards Dinner: Thirty two have registered to attend. Total expenses for the event should be under $1000. Rotch Library at MIT is handling the requisitions at MIT and NEASIS will refund them.
The event will include a short business meeting. Nicole will cover the following topics:
-Account balances
-Call for nominations for Chapter officers
-Other volunteer opportunities - e.g. membership; news page
-Review success of the Wireless program
-Announce upcoming programs (with a special note that Student Chapter
help is desired for the fall IA program.
-Announce the Program Committee web site
-Report that our membership is over 271; SIG/IA within that are 23
-Announce the Special Issues of ASIST BulletinASIS Special Bulletin: the Wireless program transcripts will appear in two issues, due to the extent of the content - three speakers in each issue; the bibliography will appear in the second issue. Jonah recommends that to do transcriptions for future programs, NEASIS should attempt to get sponsorship.
Virtual Program: Richard Larson's talk has been filmed (Apr. 15). At the next Program Committee meeting, the group will have the video and can determine how to represent it best in a webliography and finalize other web content. The final date of the event is not set until we get final arrangements from the west coast.
IA fall program: The Program Committee will start planning at their next meeting. Interested Student Chapter members can attend or Jonah will find another way to meet with them about involvement. Venue for this program is still under consideration. Choice depends on convenience, expected attendance, cost, and also whether we decide to co-sponsor with another organization.
Action Items:
-Michelle will ask Candy Schwartz if there is someone she recommends for Student Chapter Member [done].
-Nicole will email the outline of her business meeting announcements for Board input
-Michelle will tell Simmons of Jonah's interest in having help for the IA program.Treasurer - Vince
Current Balances:
Checking $ 9,598.29
CDs $12,981.02
Total $22,579.31Student Chapter - Michelle
The Alternate Career Panel was held on April 19 and was very well attended. The four panelists were:
Moe Blaustein, Zefer
Cindy Rowland, Fact City
Karen Stevens, Tvisions
Ben Noeske, Harvard Office of Information SystemsThere will be elections to fill Student Chapter offices as several officers are graduating. Candy's five-year tenure as Advisor is also up, so a new Faculty Advisor needs to be identified.
There will be a summer event at Mystic Seaport, held in collaboration with the archives student chapter.
Jenny is working on a Student Chapter directory.
III. Logo
Agreement was reached via email that we should follow HQ by matching the national's logo.
Action Items:
-Nicole will experiment with the logo and give it to Darcy to add to the web site.
-Beata will send Jonah her version of the logoIV. PayPal
Vince reports that PayPal is now set up and seems to work fine. Jonah reported that there is some possibility that a repeat of the small summer workshop (could even be a repeat of the audio program) will be held this summer. Attendance would be only about a dozen people and this might be a good opportunity to try out PayPal.
Action Item:
-Vince and Jonah will work on how PayPal signup can be done on the web.
Current Action Items:
-Michelle will ask Candy Schwartz if there is someone she recommends for Student Chapter Member [done].
-Nicole will email the outline of her business meeting announcements for Board input
-Michelle will tell Simmons of Jonah's interest in having help for the IA program.
-Nicole will experiment with the logo and give it to Darcy to add to the web site.
-Beata will send Jonah her version of the logo
-Vince and Jonah will work on how PayPal signup can be done on the web.Previous Action Items:
-Beata will handle the mailing to invite upstate NY and eastern Canada members to join NEASIS
-Beata will contact non-NEASIS members from the Wireless program about membership.
-Michael will find out what the status of the newsletter scanning project is.
-Michael will send Jonah a list of local IA attendees.
-Michael will research the costs of some speakers he knows of.
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