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NEASIST Board Minutes, December 12, 2001

Present: Jonah Jenkins (Chair), Beata Panagopoulos (Membership Chair), Michael Jimenez (Program Committee Chair), Jessica Thomas (Secretary), Maggie Byer (Student Chapter Liaison).

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

II. Reports

Membership - Beata

Beata has not yet received updated membership reports from ASIST headquarters, but the directory info questionnaires that she sent out to members have been returned, so she should be able to publish the directory in January. In order to keep costs down, we are not going to use spiral bindings for the directories.

Action Item:
-Beata will publish the Membership Directory in January.

Program Committee - Jonah

Future of Fair Use Program: The event was a big success. Michael distributed a summary of registration statistics. A journalist from the New York Times attended and the comment form solicited a high volume of useful feedback. The venue had some drawbacks, so other venues will be also considered for future events. The Committee will also consider offering a better registration discount on events for NEASIST members.

The Program Committee will meet again in late January to plan the awards dinner. They are still identifying potential speakers for the dinner.


Treasurer - No report as Vince was unable to attend.

Student Chapter - Maggie

The student group needs a NEASIST member to speak at the Simmons GSLIS Spotlight on Associations on February 6, 2002. Jessica volunteered to speak at the meeting.

The December XML presentation was well received, and resources from the event have been published on the student group website.

Action Item:
- Jessica will speak at the Simmons GSLIS Spotlight on Associations.

III. Other Business

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has offered to produce and publish streaming audio files of the Fair Use event for their website.

The group brainstormed about topics for future Program Committee events, pursuing the idea of concentrating on a subset of information architecture. It was suggested that we produce a usability seminar in which we compare different versions/years of publication of the same site using the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.

IV. Upcoming meeting dates
January 16th
Rotch Library conference room, MIT, from 5:00-6:30p.m.

Current Action Items:
-Beata will publish the Membership Directory in January.
- Jessica will speak at the Simmons GSLIS Spotlight on Associations.

Previous Action Items:
-Jonah will send Nicole a brief summary of our collaboration with the LA chapter and a list of the discussion lists to which we have posted news about our upcoming events.
-The board will consider community outreach initiatives at future meetings.
-Nicole will send Jonah the chair manual.
-Jonah will contact Vijay Kumar's assistant, Phil Long, about submitting the films to the Research Channel.
-Beata will handle the mailing to invite upstate NY and eastern Canada members to join NEASIS.
-Beata will ask Louisa if she contacted non-NEASIS members from the Wireless program about membership.

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