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NEASIST Board Minutes, August 8, 2001

Present: Nicole Hennig (Chair), Jonah Jenkins, Beata Panagopoulos, Michelle Knight, Pat Flanagan (minutes), Vince Kimball

I. Minutes from the May meeting were approved with slight changes.

II. Reports:

Membership - Beata

Beata expressed concern that she doesn't have the time or energy to work on membership retention/recruitment. The current subcommittee isn't working. Jonah is going to ask the Program Committee whether there is a volunteer to recruit non-ASIST attendees after a program.

Action item:
-Beata will ask Margret and Louisa if they are still interested in membership.

Membership update: renewed members=19; dropped members=12; one transfer in; total members=256.

Membership Directory update: Beata is working on advertising for the directory.

Action item:
-Jonah has some ideas for advertisers, which he will pass on, to Beata outside the meeting.

Program Committee - Jonah

Audio Workshop, schedule for August 14 - Jonah reports this is full. Wesleyan used PayPal for the registration. It worked, but sampling was small. The Program Committee would like to schedule another session of the workshop since it is popular and requested. The Board concurred, so a date will be identified in the fall.

Virtual Program - This is still progressing slowly. Howard Besser has filmed most of his presentation, but still needs to finish it. Vacations have interfered with the progress, but things should speed up in Sept. This may cause the program date to be pushed back, however. Technical support at USC for Blackboard is still an open question. Jonah is still waiting on Vijay Kumar's approval for submitting films to the Research Channel (a requirement to proceed). The content will also be accepted for DSpace.

Wireless follow-up - parts one and two have appeared in the ASIST Bulletin.

Information Architecture Program - One speaker is confirmed; the Program Committee is still looking for others. There is also a corporate offer to sponsor this or a future program. They are still hoping the program date will be in early December.

Action Item:
-Board members will keep an eye out for speaker ideas and pass along to Jonah.

PayPal - The system works when people use it, however people seem hesitant to do so, probably due to fears of giving out email and personal information. We need to do more to explain PayPal's procedures so people will feel more comfortable using it. Another issue is figuring out when to take PayPal down when the program is full to avoid overbooking.

Treasurer - Vince

Balances:
Checking $ 5,285.37
CDs $13,305.74
Total $18,591.11

Action Item: Vince will do some sort of graphical representation of the history of the NEASIST account balances to help future chapter leaders keep tabs on the financial health of the chapter.

Student Chapter - Michelle

Michelle has to resign due to other commitments. Candy Schwartz will identify a new student chapter representative. Student chapter elections are to be held in late August.

III. Nominations and Voting

A ballot is needed for incoming officers. This year that includes the Chair Elect/Program Committee Chair and Secretary.

Action Items:
-Nicole will email a possible candidate for secretary
-Beata will make up ballots and print labels
-Beata will send the e-text to Nicole who will make copies
-Nicole, Jonah, and Pat will do the mailing

IV. Upcoming meeting dates:
September 12
October 10
All meetings at Barker Library, MIT, from 4:30-6pm

Current Action Items:
-Beata will ask Margret and Louisa if they are still interested in membership.
-Jonah has some ideas for advertisers, which he will pass on, to Beata outside the meeting.
-Board members will keep an eye out for speaker ideas and pass along to Jonah.
-Nicole will email a possible candidate for secretary
-Beata will make up ballots and print labels
-Beata will send the e-text to Nicole who will make copies
-Nicole, Jonah, and Pat will do the mailing

Previous Action Items:
-Jonah will contact Vijay Kumar about submitting the films to the Research Channel.
-Nicole will experiment with the logo and give it to Darcy to add to the web site.
-Beata will handle the mailing to invite upstate NY and eastern Canada members to join NEASIS
-Louisa/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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