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NEASIS&T Board Minutes, March 12, 2003

Present: Michael Jimenez (Chapter Chair), Darcy Duke (Program Committee Chair), Margret Branschofsky (Membership Chair),Maggie Byer (Secretary), Dorothy Barr (Student Chapter Liaison).

Order of Business:

1. Minutes from February meeting were approved.

2. Reports:

  • National ASIST Providence 2004- Michael Jimenez
    • Most work will be done in summer 2003. Nina Davis-Millis is too busy to serve as task force leader. The Providence 2004 task force will be meeting in mid to late April.
    • Action Items:
      • Organize calendar, pick leader and set up a task schedule for Providence 2004.
        Previous action items [carried over] to be reported after task force kickoff
  • Membership– Margret
    • Margret is receiving National ASIST’s membership updates tri monthly, but they include members outside New England. Chapter members total ~178. Margret demonstrated the membership database, designed by Lydia Evins on FilemakerPro. The db is flexible and looks good. It contains all membership information that national has, including SIGs and write-in fields for members’ specific expertise and willingness to speak or write. The Chapter’s most accurate membership information is coming from Beata’s annual membership emails.
    • Action item:
      • Margret will recruit Membership Committee people, who will then brainstorm ideas for recruiting new members via spring program.
    • Previous Action item:
      • Margret will email the program committee membership list for volunteers to contact Simmons members graduating and pursue members who aren’t renewing.
  • Program – Darcy
    • The Spring program, “It’s Not Just Google Anymore” will be Monday, April 28 in the Media Lab Bartos Theater. We are limiting the audience to 150 to avoid crowding. We will do more membership marketing at spring program [see above].
    • Darcy, despite the eccentric migrations of the National ASIST server, has posted a complete program description on the Chapter website at http://www.asis.org/Chapters/neasis/pc/programs/20030428.html
    • Beata has publicized the $1000 student travel award widely. She could use one more non-student volunteer for the jury. Contact Beata Panagopoulos at beata_Panagopoulos@harvard.edu. So far we have had no submissions. Submission deadline is April 4. The winner will be announced April 29 and the award presented at the Spring dinner, MIT Faculty Club, Tuesday evening May 13th.
    • Action item
      • Program committee will post spring program on NEASIST, SLA-and-related, Future of Fair Use and Harvard lists. Michael will send listservs used in the past. Diane Somers, a blogger, may know useful lists.
      • Program committee will coordinate with Membership committee to do membership marketing at spring program
      • Darcy will coordinate student-of-the-year award through Candy Schwartz
      • Program committee will participate in DASER Boston Summit planning
  • Treasurer– Vince absent, no current report
  • Student chapter – Dorothy
    • ·Events: Student ASIST has a new webmaster, Jason Strauss, and a new website within the GSLIS LISSA site. The student chapter will sponsor a non-traditional careers program in early April. The student chapter is also beginning a weblog.
    • Action items :
      • Student chapter will present a non-traditional careers program in early April
      • Student chapter will implement a blog on its new website

3. Upcoming meeting date: April 9th Barker Engineering Library conference room, MIT 5 – 6pm

4. Current action items

  • Organize calendar, pick leader and set up a task schedule for Providence 2004.
  • Margret will recruit Membership Committee people, who will then brainstorm ideas for recruiting new members via spring program.
  • Program committee will post spring program on NEASIST, SLA-and-related, Future of Fair Use and Harvard lists. Michael will send listservs used in the past. Diane Somers, a blogger, may know useful lists.
  • Program committee will coordinate with Membership committee to do membership marketing at spring program
  • Darcy will coordinate student-of-the-year award through Candy Schwartz
  • Program committee will participate in DASER Boston Summit planning
  • Student chapter will present a non-traditional careers program in early April
  • Student chapter will implement a blog on its new website

    Previous Action Items:

  • Margret will email the program committee membership list for volunteers to contact Simmons members graduating and pursue members who aren’t renewing.
  • Beata will coordinate student travel award jury volunteers




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