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NEASIS&T Board Minutes, January 11, 2006
Teleconference

Present: Beatrice Pulliam (Chair), Margret Branschofsky (Past-Chair), Caryn Anderson (Program Committee Chair), Nancy Akin (Treasurer), Christine Connors (Secretary), Dick Luxner (Membership Chair).

Action Items:
1. Make new officers list live.
2. Christine send minutes for posting to the other Christine
3. Caryn will confirm Christine is on the Program Committee list.
4. Dick will send a summary of the membership report from HQ.
5. Margret will send a letter to the “new prospect.”
6. Beatrice will teach Dick how to administer the survey using the PHPSurveyor tool on our website.
7. Dick will begin preparing the survey, to be completed not later than 2/28.
8. Nancy will follow up with Jan at HQ to get the tax id number for opening a new account. Beatrice believes she has the direct number and will send it on.
9. Nancy will visit the bank on the weekend to fill out a signature card so she can write checks.

Order of Business:

1. Program Committee meeting update

a. New ideas include:

i. Peter Morville program, two weeks in May are possibilities, $500 fee cost plus expenses, maybe come for the award dinner; maybe O’Reilly will co-sponsor to help defray costs? Generate interest in attendance at the dinner
ii. Tara Calishain, author of Google Hacks, (working on new book) will be in NY in May, might be easy to get her up here; co-sponsor with Simmons Chapter? No dates yet.
iii. Arun said Simmons Chapter will be doing an RSS program in February
iv. Identity Management
v. Exposing Library resources
vi. More usability stuff – Krug, Tom Tullis (Fidelity) – Manya and Nancy
vii. GIS / GPS
viii. Designing for small devices
ix. History of info science
x. OpenURL
xi. Wearable Computing

2) Treasurer update

a. (per Beatrice) Nancy got letter from Vince to the Bank, will go to Ipswich this weekend to old bank and fill out card so she can write checks; Nancy needs to reimburse herself for all the travel, will use the federal rate.
b. Nancy emailed Jan at ASIST to get the national info for opening a new account – Margret suggested she call, Beatrice will dig up the number;
c. Beatrice is concerned about losing our domain name due to registration lapse; Vince is not responsive and Beatrice wants to change it to a new account under NEASIST rather than an individual.

3) Survey

a. Member vs. non-member debate
b. Online or physical debate
c. Use the questions sent by Beatrice to the board
d. DO: Send an email survey to members, Dick will administer using the PHPSurveyor installed on the NEASIST website; Beatrice will teach Dick how to do it; Dick will do it as soon as he can get it ready, not later than 2/28

4) Membership

a. Dick has a new report from HQ.

a. During November we had 4 new members, 17 renewed members, 11 dropped, 1 transfer in.
b. Dick will send names to Caryn to add to the NEASIS-L list.
c. Dick will send the summary; Beatrice will like to see it.
d. Margret explained that “new prospects” are people HQ believes may be interested in joining due to their attendance at say national, and their proximity to this chapter. Dick has one new prospect on the list; Margret will send a letter to the one.

5) Actions completed:

a. Memalerts update Kyle Banerjee – Dick was going to follow up if it’s still done. We are dropping for NEASIS, HQ will pick up (Nat’l membership committee) per Caryn.
b. Margret didn’t have a template for the postcards. Beatrice will send paper for the cards. Dick will draft a template; send draft to board before using.
c. Beatrice received the brochures from HQ. Caryn said a downloadable, CORRECT, version should be available by April.

6) Minutes from December meeting unanimously approved.

7) Website – needs updating / approvals published.

a. Board contacts will be published with standard email formatting: example@company.com unless someone specifically requests example <at> company.com.

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