ILA/ACRL
Business Meeting
March 3, 2008
St. Ambrose University
I. Welcome: Heinzman thanked Dr. Ibarra and welcomed Mary Wegner from the State Library of Iowa.
Legislative Update: Wegner encourages members to contact Governor Culver using the form on his website. (http://www.governor.iowa.gov/administration/contact/) He proposed an 18% cut in funding. March 11 is Legislative Day. Look for email updates.
The State Library will be soliciting feedback for their strategic plan. There will be a meeting May 8, with possible ICN sites. The State Library is also exploring a statewide shared ILS (possibly open-source), using Georgia as a model.
II. Approval of Business Meeting minutes from October 11, 2007
Campagna moved. Donham seconded. Approved unanimously.
III. Treasurer's Report: Gruber reported:
ILA/ACRL Balance as of 1/1/08: $4,481.86
Dues 580.00
Spring Meeting/other 2,420.00
Total available funds 7,481.86
Less expenses to date 2,500.00
Balance in account $4,981.86
ILA Balance as of 2/26/08 $154.00
IV. Committee and Chapter ACRL Representative Reports
a. Spring conference: Dellinger thanked the committee for their hard work in planning the conference.
b. Directory: Goodell thanked the committee. She explained that the directory is printed every 2 years and indicated that there will be further discussion at the fall meeting about the need to continue with print or transition to online-only. She reported that 200 were printed at a total cost of $540.
c. Fall program: Paulus thanked the committee and reported that the list of proposals for fall program sessions sponsored by ILA-ACRL has been submitted to the ILA Conference Planning Committee.
d. Awards: Donham acknowledged the committee and announced the conference scholarlships (Maura Eggeman & Robin Clark-Bridges). Research Award winner Karen Lehman briefly discussed her research "Assessment of Student Learning from Reference Service," co-authored by Jill Gremmels and published in 2007 in College and Research Libraries 68 (6): 488-501.
Donham announced Advocacy Award winner, University of Dubuque. Gruber briefly discussed her library's project to distribute custom highlighters to first-year composition students participating in a common information literacy assignment. Forthcoming article: Knefel, M.A., Waelchli, P., & Gruber, A.M.H. (2008). Modeling scholarly inquiry: One article at a time. College and Undergraduate Libraries. In press.
e. Membership: Gardner reported that as of 2-28 there were 117 members, including 15 new members. She reminded the members that the membership year runs with the calendar year, not the academic year. She thanked the committee for their upcoming work.
f. Electronic Communications: Gjerde thanked the committee and encouraged members to visit the website, http://www.iowaacrl.org, which has some new content and features. Feedback welcome.
g. Newsletter: Hess reminded members to look for a newsletter in March.
h. Nominating: Cloyd asked members to consider volunteering for an ILA-ACRL committee or other leadership position. Volunteer forms are available in conference packets.
i. Mentoring: Moon referred members to the brochures available in the conference packets about mentoring opportunities and the July 18 support staff conference.
j. ACRL Chapters Council Representative: McDaniels absent. No report.
k. ACRL Government Relations Representative: No report.
V. Other Business:
Staff members new to ILA-ACRL libraries were introduced.
VI. Next Meeting: October 16, 2008, at ILA Fall Conference, Dubuque, IA
Respectfully submitted,
Anne Marie Gruber
ILA-ACRL Secretary/Treasurer, 2008
University of Dubuque