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NEASIST Board Minutes, April 10 , 2002

Present: Jonah Jenkins (Chair), Michael Jimenez (Program Committee Chair), Jessica Thomas (Secretary), Maggie Byer (Student Chapter Liaison), Nicole Hennig (Past Chair).

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

II. Reports

Membership - Beata, via email

Membership Directory: The directory has been published and distributed.

Student Travel Award: Thus far there are five entries in the competition from students at Simmons College, SUNY Buffalo and Dalhousie University.

Program Committee - Michael

Awards Dinner: The annual Awards Dinner will be held on May 9th at the MIT Faculty Club. Steve Krug will be the speaker. Invitations have been sent to the NEASIST membership.

Virtual Program: We are currently waiting for Richard Larson's copy. The final product is likely to be a RealAudio file synched with PowerPoint slides, and a Quicktime version as well. The project will probably be finished in August 2002.

Other Programs: The committee will meet again on April 25th to begin planning events for the remainder of 2002.

Action Item:
- Jonah will talk to the LA chapter of ASIST about the look and feel of the HTML for the top-level pages of the Virtual Program.

Treasurer - Vince

No report as Vince was unable to attend.

Student Chapter - Maggie

Upcoming Events: The student chapter is planning a luncheon for their annual "Alternative Careers for Librarians" panel. Panelists will include Wendi Pohs, a taxonomist at Lotus Software; Nancy Heywood, Digital Projects Coordinator at the Massachusetts Historical Society; Carol Myles, a competitive intelligence professional who has worked with SilverPlatter, Ingenta and Books 24x7; Carol Ellerbeck, a taxonomist at the Harvard Business School; and Theresa Pinnell, a knowledge management professional with Millennium Pharmaceuticals.

III. Other Business

NEASIST Listserv: Dick Hill at ASIST headquarters will create a NEASIST e-mailing list and sign up all current members. We anticipate a low volume of posts to the list as it will be used primarily to broadcast upcoming NEASIST events and other administrative items of broad concern.

Action Item:
- The board will draft a letter to NEASIST members, giving them the opportunity to opt out of the email list.

IV. Upcoming meeting dates:

May 8th - Rotch Library conference room, MIT, from 5:00-6:30pm

Current Action Items:
- Jonah will talk to the LA chapter of ASIST about the look and feel of the HTML for the top-level pages of the Virtual Program.
- The board will draft a letter to NEASIST members, giving them the opportunity to opt out of the email list.

Previous Action Items:
- Vince will email the current balance to board members when he finishes the quarterly report to headquarters.
- Nicole will bring her laptop to the next board meeting so we can see the membership database in action.
- The board will consider community outreach initiatives at future meetings.
- Beata will ask Louisa if she contacted non-NEASIS members from the Wireless program about membership.

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