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NEASIST Board Minutes, October 10, 2001

Present: Nicole Hennig (outgoing Chair), Jonah Jenkins (incoming Chair), Beata Panagopoulos (Membership Chair), Vince Kimball (Treasurer), Jessica Thomas (incoming Secretary), Michael Leach, Maggie Byer (Student Chapter Liaison),

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

Action Items:
-Michael will send PDFs of newsletters for inclusion on website
-Michael will ask Margret if she's interested in being membership chair

II. Reports:

Membership - Beata

Beata distributed a Membership Report for July-August 2001.

July 2001 new members = 1; renewed members = 15; dropped members = 4
August 2001 new members = 2; renewed members = 19; dropped members = 6

The membership directory is not yet underway but the new database should speed the process. Beata is still working on advertising and member update questionnaires.

Action Items:
-Beata will send Darcy the names of new members for the website
-Nicole will ask Darcy to update all mentions of NEASIS on the website to NEASIST

Program Committee - Jonah

Information Architecture Program: This event has been postponed until 2002. Speakers are still being identified.

Future of Fair Use Program: NEASIST will host an all-day program on fair use and the DMCA on December 11th in MIT's Tang Center. Speakers will include: Walter McDonough, General Counsel, the Future of Music Coalition; Patricia Seed, Rice University professor and visiting scholar at MIT; and Ivy Anderson, Coordinator for Digital Acquisitions, Harvard University Library Digital Initiative (tentative). Lunch will not be served but a map to local eateries will be provided and there will be two additional snack breaks. Estimated attendance is 200.

Virtual Program: The Howard Besser tapes have been digitized. Conversion to DVD has been considered but it is very expensive. The presentations can be put into D-Space if we provide cataloging. Also considering "chunking" the presentations with metadata to allow for hyperlinks into different program pieces. The Program Committee may try to publish an account of the Virtual Program process in the ASIST Bulletin and/or on the web.

Other Issues: Payment sequence for cost-sharing with the LA chapter on the development of the blackboard environment was established: NEASIST will pay the bills through Rotch Library and the LA chapter will reimburse us for their half. USC will provide server space for the Virtual Program files. Michael Jimenez will be the new Program Chair.

Action Item:
-Jonah will ask Darcy to update the Program pages of the website to reflect recent and upcoming events

Treasurer - Vince

Balances:
Checking $ 5,635.07
CDs $13,407.05
Total $19,042.12

Vince is working on getting a credit card for Jonah and will roll over the CD that matures in November.

Student Chapter - Maggie

Nicole will speak to Simmons library students about web management on Tuesday, October 30th at 1p.m. The next student chapter meeting will be Saturday, November 10th. They are still trying to put together a trip to Mystic Seaport before the holiday break. In January they will participate in the Simmons GSLIS Spotlight on Associations, and in April they will host another Alternative Careers for Librarians panel.

III. Other Business

Annual Report: Nicole is working on the 2001 Annual Report, using the ASIST checklist as a guide. The board has to recommend local members for national participation. Peter Cohn was selected.

Action Items:
-Beata will email Nicole an updated count of members
-Nicole will email questions to the board within 10 days for their input
-Nicole will email the final draft to the board

Annual Meeting: Beata, Pat Flanagan and Michael will attend the ASIST Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. in November. Beata will represent NEASIST at the Chapter Assembly.

IV. Upcoming meeting dates:
November 14th
Rotch Library conference room, MIT, from 5:00-6:30p.m.

Current Action Items:
-Michael will send PDFs of newsletters for inclusion on website
-Michael will ask Margret if she's interested in being membership chair
-Beata will send Darcy the names of new members for the website
-Nicole will ask Darcy to update all mentions of NEASIS on the website to NEASIST
-Jonah will ask Darcy to update the Program pages of the website to reflect recent and upcoming events
-Beata will email Nicole an updated count of members
-Nicole will email questions to the board within 10 days for their input
-Nicole will email the final draft to the board

Previous Action Items:
-Beata will ask Margret and Louisa if they are still interested in membership.
-Board members will keep an eye out for speaker ideas and pass along to Jonah.
-Jonah will contact Vijay Kumar about submitting the films to the Research Channel.
-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

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