ALA Meeting Minutes

04/03/07

Approximately 5:00pm

UK CAIT Lab

Attendees: Craig Amos (President), Ruthie Maslin (President-Elect), Sandra Nickell (Secretary/Treasurer)

Students: Lyndsey Clevenger, Mary Landrum, and Helen Morrison.

Absent: Lisa O’Conner (Advisor)

Agenda Items:

1.) ALA Constitution/Site updates

2.) UK ALA Student Org. T-Shirts—Design/Slogan contest/Vendor

3.) ALA Charter renewal

4.) ALA Officer elections

5.) Academic Bill of Rights/Blackboard/Political issues

6.) ALA conference in June

a. LOC tour

b. Travel—Van details?

c. Dates—other conference info.

Discussion:

*Revisions to the constitution are complete, and Ruthie will submit the constitution.

*Lyndsey will be working on website updates and will submit those when complete.

*Sandra will resend email about T-shirts to chapter officers for review.

*May 1^st is the date that our charter renewal is due.

-Ruthie will submit the charter renewal on the last week of April.

-The chapter will receive 100 sheets of colored paper when our charter is renewed.

*Ruthie will take over as President at the end of this semester, and Craig and Sandra will no longer be officers.

*Officer elections will take place to fill the positions of President-Elect and Secretary/Treasurer

-Craig will send out an email by the end of the week calling for nominations and self-nominations for the positions.

-Nominations will be accepted until Friday 13^th.

-Ballots will be sent out on Monday 16^th, and students must reply by the 20^th.

-Winners will be announced on Monday 23^rd.

*Mary L. brought up the formation of a local REFORMA chapter, and discussed possible involvement with them.

-REFORMA is a chapter of individuals that are interested in serving the Spanish speaking population.

-Possible meeting liaisons, programming, volunteering, speakers, etc. were briefly discussed.

*The Academic Bill of Rights is a national ALA issue, and the chapter’s involvement is wanted.

-Letters to State Representatives is the likely course of action that the chapter is being asked to participate in.

-No other new information about this was available at this time.

*Blackboard has been causing a lot of students’ difficulties, and these issues along with possible courses of action were discussed.

-Craig suggested the following: an informal blog about problems, strategies; tracking behavior of Blackboard; reach out to administrators; and write letter to submit to Student Congress.

*No new details concerning travel arrangements for the ALA conference in Washington, D.C. were known at this time.

*Craig is working on scheduling a professional tour of the Library of Congress during the conference.

-Discussed plans for this tour.

Discussion Items for Next Meeting:

*Officer Elections

*Charter Renewal

*Chapter Website updates

*ALA Conference

Next Meeting:

Not currently scheduled.