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NEASIST Board Minutes, January 16, 2002Present: Jonah Jenkins (Chair), Beata Panagopoulos (Membership Chair), Michael Jimenez (Program Committee Chair), Jessica Thomas (Secretary), Maggie Byer (Student Chapter Liaison), Nicole Hennig.
I. Minutes from the December meeting were approved.
II. Reports
Membership - Beata
Despite repeated phone calls to the head office, Beata has not received a membership update from ASIST headquarters since August 2001. As such, the directory cannot be published in January, but will be as soon as she receives the updated information.
Lydia fixed the bugs in the new membership database so that it is easier to use.
Action Item:
- Nicole will bring her laptop to the next board meeting so we can see the membership database in action.Program Committee - Michael
Michael distributed a summary of the evaluations submitted by attendees of the Fair Use event, created by Joanne Ren. There have been several inquiries from people interested in joining the Program Committee.
The committee is considering a new program this spring, to be hosted by the Boston Bar Association and produced in conjunction with the Boston Area Music Librarians group. Walter McDonough of the BBA and Peter Munstead of MIT will contribute. The content of the event has yet to be decided, but it will be framed according to the interests of BAML members and there will be no charge to attend.
Because of the crowded spring events calendar and the reduction in funds available to many attendees, the committee will hold off on holding any other big events until next winter. They will try to hold one more audio workshop before that time.
The next Program Committee meeting will focus on planning the awards dinner, including setting the date and identifying potential speakers.
Action Items:
- Michael will email the date of the awards dinner to the board when it has been set.
- Beata will set the deadline for submissions for the student paper award based on the dinner date.
- Nicole, rather than Maggie, will help Beata read the student paper submissions.
- Jonah will find a new contact at CAES with whom to pursue the streaming video for the virtual program.
Treasurer - No report as Vince was unable to attend.Student Chapter - Maggie
The student chapter is tentatively planning a guest speaker appearance with someone from Lingo Motors. They may also feature Moe Blaustein from UPromise and someone from the world of Human Computer Interaction (HCI).
Action Items:
- Jessica will contact headquarters for handouts to bring to the Simmons GSLIS Spotlight on Associations.
- Maggie will email Jessica and let her know what time to arrive at Simmons.
- Nicole will contact her colleagues who have worked with Lingo and email Maggie information about the company.III. Other Business
The board discussed the content of the NEASIST website and the availability of online membership registration at both the local and national level.
Action Item:
- Nicole will ask Darcy to email the board a brief report on her progress with the NEASIST website.IV. Upcoming meeting dates
February 13th, March 13th, April 10th, May 8th
Rotch Library conference room, MIT, from 5:00-6:30p.m.Action Item:
- Jonah will email the meeting schedule to the board.Current Action Items:
- Nicole will bring her laptop to the next board meeting so we can see the membership database in action.
- Michael will email the date of the awards dinner to the board when it has been set.
- Beata will set the deadline for submissions for the student paper award based on the dinner date.
- Nicole, rather than Maggie, will help Beata read the student paper submissions.
- Jonah will find a new contact at CAES with whom to pursue the streaming video for the virtual program.
- Jessica will contact headquarters for handouts to bring to the Simmons GSLIS Spotlight on Associations.
- Maggie will email Jessica and let her know what time to arrive at Simmons.
- Nicole will contact her colleagues who have worked with Lingo and email Maggie information about the company.
- Nicole will ask Darcy to email the board a brief report on her progress with the NEASIST website.
- Jonah will email the meeting schedule to the board.
Previous Action Items:
- Beata will publish the Membership Directory as soon as the updated report arrives from headquarters.
- Jessica will speak at the Simmons GSLIS Spotlight on Associations on February 6th.
- The board will consider community outreach initiatives at future meetings.
- 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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