Executive Board Meeting
November 1, 2007
The
I. The meeting was called to order by President Carl Antonucci at 10:10. Library Director Kathy Cockcroft welcomed the Board to the Canton Public Library.
II. Board Introductions: members of the Board introduced themselves.
III. Public Comments/Notes from CLA Office: Carl asked for a moment of silence to remember Jessica Rodriquez, a young woman on the staff at Hartford Public Library who recently passed away.
IV. Additions to Agenda: none
V. Votes Taken: Alice Knapp moved to accept the minutes of the October 4, 2007 meeting. Peter Ciparelli seconded. Motion passed unanimously.
Jay Johnson moved that our meetings in January (3rd) and May (1st) be eliminated from the schedule. Peter Ciparelli seconded. Motion passed unanimously.
Alice Knapp moved that the CLA Legislative Agenda FY 2009 proposal be accepted with the minor changes noted (see Legislative Committee report). Carl Antonucci seconded. Motion passed unanimously.
VI. President’s Report: Carl reported that the Conference committee core group continues to meet monthly. He reminded committee and section chairs to submit their program proposals to conference co-chairs. Carl continues to include highlights of the conference in his monthly CT Libraries column and offered Board members an opportunity to serve as a guest columnist in this space.
VII.
Treasurer’s Report:
VIII.
VP/President Elect Report:
IX. Past President: Barbara Bailey reported that she is beginning to accept nominations for 2008-2009 CLA Executive Officers.
X. Committee/Section/Roundtable Reports:
ACLB: Stan Siegel reported on the successful Trustees Boot Camp at Water’s Edge in Westbrook. There were 189 attendees, 1/3 of who responded to the event survey. The Board will be meeting November 8 to begin revising the Trustee Handbook. Stan thanked the Connecticut State Library and the CLA Board for their help and support.
BCALA: Vivian Bordeaux announced a membership reception scheduled for Thursday, November 29th from 6-8 p.m. at the New Haven Public Library.
Business & Economic Development: Michelle Foyt discussed the section’s plans for Conference 2008 which includes: the “blended librarian;” Robert Berkman’s update on Web 2.0 (including Facebook) and Onto 3.0 and ECSU library staff discussing the results of a survey on users of Facebook.
CLASS: John Cayer updated the Board on the CLASS
Conference scheduled for the next day, November 2nd at
CLC: Chris Bradley reported on a
new Adult Program Roundtable meeting 11/13 to discuss booking author visits. She announced a 2 ½ day training session for
catalogers presented by the Library of Congress November 28-30 at RPI in
Chris reported on a partnership with New Haven Festival of the Arts for the “Big Read”. CLC received a grant for the program which selected Fahrenheit 451. She reported on the development of an Open Source study group to help integrate into other library resources.
CSL: Ken Wiggin informed the Board that the bond package approved by the General Assembly on Tuesday includes a $10 million dollar increase over the next 2 years for public library construction - $3.5 million is earmarked for non-distressed communities and $5 million for distressed communities. His written report included information on new continuing education workshops in November and December; the CT Interlibrary Loan Activity Report for 2006-07 was distributed to all libraries in October; and the next round of LSTA grants for amounts will be distributed next week. A listing of categories approved by ACLPD for grants between $3,000 and $25,000 was included in the report.
Career Recruitment: Vivian Bordeaux encouraged LTA and MLS students to apply for scholarships available.
Children’s: Liz McKay asked the Board to consider increasing its contribution to Nutmeg from $500 to $750 in light of the profit generated from last month’s event.
College and University: John
Leonetti reported on the social networking event held at
Conference: Chris Bradley reported that a Certificate 112
has been filed by the CLA office and approved by the State of
Alice Knapp announced that the
co-chairs for 2009 Conference (she and Janet Woycik) will be submitting a draft
proposal shortly after the first of the year.
She also reported that the Omni in
There was discussion regarding sponsorship of various conference activities. Carl Antonucci suggested an Alumni Sponsor Program where CLA members could make a donation or sponsor in full the registration cost for a student (either LTA or Graduate) to attend the CLA Conference. This sponsorship opportunity could be detailed on the conference registration form.
Development: Barbara Bailey reported that the committee will meet again in January and present a report thereafter.
Editorial: David Kapp reminded members that he is hoping to receive more book reviews for the December gift issue. He reported that the upcoming November issue is the 2nd annual technology issue; he is looking for someone to serve as the Obversion columnist.
Friends: Mary Engels reported on the success of the volunteer workshop featuring Anita Taylor on October 27th. There were 50 attendees. Friends are working on a conference program “Beyond the Book Sale.”
Intellectual Freedom: Peter Chase spoke to the Connecticut Education Network who is looking at creating procedures to handle requests from law enforcement agencies regarding patron information. The committee is planning a program on “The Library as a Limited Public Forum” for the 2008 Conference. They are seeking an attorney who can speak about policies and laws regarding limited public forums.
Legislative: Peter Ciparelli presented the CLA Legislative Agenda FY 2009. It was read and discussed and the following changes were made: the word “expanding” be removed from the paragraph on “Connecticut Library Consortium and InfoAnytime Program;” under “Public Library Construction Grants” $10 million changed to $8.5 million and the end of the paragraph reads: “CLA seeks to increase this funding to $10,000,000 in FY2009.” See Votes Taken.
Peter announced a Legislative
Committee reception honoring 22 legislators who supported the increased funding
for CLA programs during the last session. The event will be held November 7th
at 4:00 at
Membership: Pam Najarian reported that membership is at 744; a second mailing/reminder letter sent to 302 individuals.
NELA: Mary Etter reported NELA is considering a program on privacy for the conference.
Personnel: Alice Knapp will report on the minimum salary requirement at the December meeting.
Publicity: Chris Bradley informed the Board that next month the committee will report on the Southeastern CT Community Foundation “One Book Every One Child” pilot program.
Tech Services: Tom Schadlich
reported that Steven Abram has been contracted to speak at the conference and
his committee is hosting an event Thursday, November 8th in
YA: Katie Bunn reported that only 21 have signed up for the Chris Krutcher program November 13th. If they do not reach their minimum attendance number, the program will be cancelled.
Region 6 Representative: Theresa Conley reported on the elimination of mini grants for Technology previously distributed by the Community Foundation of Southeastern Connecticut. All libraries in the region have been affected by the decision not to fund technology with these grants. Four libraries including Bill Memorial Library, Stonington Free, Wheeler Library and Lyme Public Library have collaborated and written a letter to the Foundation regarding the issue.
New Business: Jaime Hammond reported that ACLPD is looking to fill Board openings. If anyone is interested, they can contact her.
Adjournment: The meeting adjourned at 12 noon.
Attendees: Kirsten Kilbourn,
Respectfully Submitted,
Pamela Najarian