LSO Minutes: 2005

LSO Meeting Minutes, July 11, 2005

Present: Andrea Lemieux, Deborah Sandler (Vice President), Maggie Swanger (Faculty/Student Liaison), Jennifer Young (Jobs & Alumni Coordinator), Kat Gonzalez (Webmaster), Juliann Couture (Distance Student Liaison), Nancy Matheny (BiblioTech Co-Editor), Leslie Elsasser, Joy Wilcox, Janelle Joseph, Beth Hoffman.

1. Movie Night: Andrea proposed a movie night to show either a Democracy Now film or Unconstitutional. It was planned for 7/28/05 at 8:00 pm. LSO would supply drinks and popcorn. She will send an announcement through the listserv. *Copyright issues were not worked out and so this event will not be held.

2. Vice President: There is approximately $1100.00 in the treasury. Deborah explained the amount is not exact due to outstanding invoices and funds from the printer box not being accessible since she still needs to obtain the key from the past treasurer.

3. Website: Kat confirmed that the LSO website has been updated. The LSO link on the SIRLS website needs to be updated; Maggie said she would look into updating the link. Andrea proposed LSO utilize the calendar on the LSO website by both officers and students sending notices of library-related events to the Webmaster to add to the calendar. Maggie proposed removing Jana Bradley from the LSOEXCC listserv, but she has already been removed.

4. T-Shirts: Maggie reported that LSO can purchase 50 t-shirts for $400.00. Decided to ask students for t-shirt designs suggestions via the LSO listserv.

5. Distance Student Liaison: Juliann wants to establish a link on the LSO website for distance students to address students’ concerns when traveling to UofA, including parking, housing, rides, etc. It may also include a message board or an online chat/forum for students to keep in touch. Phoenix ‘Friends of SIRLS’, spearheaded by Karen Drake, a retired librarian, is meeting on Tuesday the 19 th at Evans House in Phoenix; the group meets on the 3 rd Tuesday of every month. The location will change for each meeting (Mesa, Gilbert, Tempe, etc.) and the time was changed to 6 pm to allow more members to attend. Deborah confirmed that distance students’ reactions to the LSO have been positive and students are interested. Juliann is also working on a SIRLS orientation for distance students. She is working on getting Macromedia Breeze set up for meetings so distance students can attend virtually.

6. BiblioTech: Nancy reported she will send out a call for articles. She suggested students submit anything from a paper from a class to articles on their experiences working in a library. She plans to write an article on web notification software.

7. Colloquy: Andrea suggested changing the name to ‘symposium.’ She will send out an email for officers to respond with their preference. Established subcommittee to coordinate the symposium. She requested volunteers and the following members responded: Janelle Joseph, Joy Wilcox, Deborah Sandler, Beth Hoffman.

 

LSO Meeting Minutes, June 24, 2005

In Attendance: Monica Bafetti (Social Coordinator & BiblioTech Editor), Juliann Couture (Distance Student Liaison), Sabrina Thomas (Program Coordinator), Maggie Swanger (Faculty/Student Liaison), members at large: Katie Estrella, Beth, Carla

Social Coordinator’s Report:
Monica is planning an informal get-together after StrongStart on August 20th. The event will take place near campus and be open to both new and current students. Patti Overall has offered her house for parties and Monica is working to plan an event later in the semester.

Program Coordinator’s Report:
Sabrina is coordinating a DLIST talk to be given by Anita Coleman. She is looking into the possibility of co-sponsorship with SLA. We are hoping for a large crowd, due in part to the DLIST internship opportunities. Due to the constraints of Anita’s busy schedule, the event must take place on September 26th. Unfortunately, the SIRLS rooms are not available on this date. Maggie thought that there might be free rooms for student clubs through the student union and will send the appropriate information to Sabrina.

Planning for the ePortfolio workshops is also underway. There will be two sessions—beginner and advanced. This event will be co-sponsored with SLA.

Faculty/Student Liaison’s Report:
Maggie investigated the costs of printing t-shirts: about $7.00/shirt is the average through local shops. This has been a successful fundraiser in the past, so the council
made tentative plans to print a general shirt with the LSO logo on the front, plus a second shirt with another design. For this second shirt, Patriot Act designs were discussed earlier, but since this issue is now in flux, we decided to open the floor to other ideas. We agreed that the shirt should not be gender-specific.

Distance Student Liaison’s Report:
Juliann has been looking into teleconferencing for our LSO meetings in order to keep distance students involved. Distance student, Carla, who resides in Oregon, liked the idea of teleconferencing.

Other ideas for the fall include the creation of a webpage highlighting resources for distance students. Some of the recurring issues are dorms, parking, roommates, etc. when distance students come to campus for weekend or week-long intensive courses. Juliann will contact Kat to discuss webpage logistics.

Additionally, Juliann has been attending the new Phoenix student meetings to stay connected and well-informed.
—Minutes submitted by Maggie Swanger

 

LSO Meeting Minutes, June 7, 2005

In Attendance: Andrea, Maggie, Deborah, Sabrina, Monica, Kat, Jana, Juliann, Ann Marie, Bruce, Beth

Minutes are to be approved over email, any corrections send back to Jana. Post the minutes to the LSO site to create interest

ALA Stipend. Theresa can’t go, Jennifer Young by default. If it’s not used save the money for later use.
Why wasn’t this taken care of before? The deadline was Feb or March 1st.
For next time, we will plan this at the end of fall with plenty of notice.
Agreement to put the different conferences on the calendar.

Summer Schedules—Send class liaisons to the classes to promote, give out pamphlets, and talk up activities. Also, send pamphlets out with mailing packets that go to new students.
Andrea to email signups out.

Monica—Social events for Fall
Keep it inside (HOT!) Do with Orientation (August 20th) for mingling effect.
T-shirts, restaurant happy hour, Gentle Ben’s—Order appetizers, but BYOB.
Weekly happy hour on Fridays after Tuesday meetings.
Date of next meeting: Friday June 24th.
Ice Cream Social—Join with SLA, Jennifer Nichols
Ideas:
• Getting comfy with technology
• Dreamweaver, Power Point
• Answers for new students (and some old).
• Reference works—citation program—free citation management
SLA/LSO will co-sponsor Dreamweaver Portfolio—Help students make it professional, basic and advanced classes.
Mary Feeney—Pay her? But will probably do it for free. Let her set the weekends. Approach her because she is our liaison and she will speak English to us, not binary or some other computer lingo.
Print out Power Point/Dreamweaver tutorial.
How to get SSH software

Colloquy—Student Conference, colloquium, Symposium.
Name: LSO 1st Annual, poster
Ask professors for students with good papers. Ask speaker personally, builds confidence.
PHD students, grad level
Not huge, keep it small. 4 sessions? 20 minute papers with 20 minutes questions, informal discussion.
Send ideas to Andrea.
Possible speakers: J. West—pay her way
M. Pellegrino—local, TPPL
Ask around: Who’s into libraries?

Treasure Report: $1507.28 – 178.12 (for reception) = $1329.16
No longer supporting graduate banquet. SIRLS to sponsor ice cream/cake or Alumni Association.
Maggie to go to Faculty in fall.

Lectures for fall:
Coleman—how librarianship has progresses, digital aspect
Resume writing
No prevention, we don’t want people to be embarrasses to ask questions.
Law Librarian, Maggie to ask, but keep this one up in the air
Food at all four
Sabrina to ask Jennifer about Brown bag?

Kat—Website work:
Old links, make it more user friendly, link to LSO homepage is not working. Post all summer meetings, post calendar

 

LSO Meeting Minutes, May 15, 2005

Meeting called to order 2:15pm

Present: Andrea Lemieux, Monica Bafetti, Deborah Sandler, Sabrina Thomas and Maggie Swanger

Items discussed are nearly all on the agenda Andrea sent out before the meeting.

Summer schedule: do we want it once or twice a month? We decided on the first and third Tuesday of the month at 6pm at SIRLS.

Members of the board exchanged phone numbers to make sure we can contact each other faster than email allows.

There will be a special election in the fall for fundraiser position.

We discussed whether we want to have food at every meeting after Andrea brought it up. This gave way to discussion of our use of funds, and Andrea brought up the graduation reception issue. She and Jana have discussed options and they are this: Have LSO keep planning it, or give it up and let the SIRLS staff, alumni, or graduates plan it. A vote was taken and it was unanimous that LSO should abdicate responsibility for the reception and we will present it to the other possible organizers to see who, if anyone, wants to take it over. Much discussion about the fact that LSO money and time might be better spent on events and professional development programs.

On that note, back to the food issue. LSO officers voted to pay for snacks at meetings. Discussion as to whether one person should take care of procuring said snacks, or whether we wanted to rotate bringing it. Deborah, our VP, volunteered to get (or order) the food.

(Here there was some informal discussion of what the new signers have to do about getting on the records at the bank for the checkbook/account, and they are going to make sure that everything gets transferred.)

Do we want to raffle off leftover T-shirts? Decided we might wait until events to do it.

Andrea volunteered to makeover the corkboard in SIRLS entryway to get rid of old papers and advertise LSO more clearly.

Monica expressed confusion over location of “LSO mailbox” she keeps hearing people talk about. Turns out it is in the area that is locked after hours. Monica volunteered to make another one in the area near where the corkboard is in the shelves near courtyard door. It should be done before the end of this week.

Discussion of Student-to-ALA conference raffle. Normally LSO sends one person under the ALA program. The student must work twenty hours for the conference in return for free attendance, and LSO gives them a $500 stipend to pay for expenses. Usually candidates are sorted through an essay contest and winner attends. However there is not enough time to hold such a contest. Raffling off the prize is next best thing so that’s what we decided to do. Student must be full time, per ALA guidelines. And per LSO they must pay their LSO dues ($20) and give presentation when they return. Perhaps we will have a potluck event and have them talk about their experience, maybe invite other people who have been to conferences lately to talk also. Andrea will call ALA or otherwise find out details of the program and figure out what needs to be done to take advantage of this. We will have Alan put info on LSO website and we will have drawing for winner on June 1 st.

Discussed possibly using LSO funds to send more students to conferences in future.

Andrea brought up idea of first ever SIRLS colloquy. Possibility of having a keynotes speaker and six or so students present over a day or two. Patti Overall has offered to help organize it. We might even invite AzLA people, local library community, alumni, etc. We could have a theme or not, and it would be great to do it in the Fall. All present are enthusiastic about idea. We could go to faculty and ask for students they recommend to present papers/talk. A possible agenda would be to have student presenters, then food, then keynote speaker. Everyone agreed we ought to plan it over the summer if it is going to happen.

Discussed need to publicize LSO events like this- we could have LSO members go to classes and hand out flyers/make announcement about event.

Sabrina will look into DLIST (Digital library/exhibits)

Social coordinator Monica put forth a few ideas and others offered opinions about events. All agreed it would be good to plan one big event for beginning of semester. Possibly a BBQ? Although it might be too hot. Andrea says that Patti Overall has offered her home for a party which might be a good place to do a beginning of semester party. Any other ideas are welcome on this issue. Hope to have event planned this summer so we can get it in the works for the very start of Fall.

Also: set up regular Happy Hour on Fridays at Gentle Ben’s at 6pm or so? This would be a pay-your-own-way type of thing just for informal social interaction. Other ideas: bowling, game night.

Fundraisers discussed. There is no official fundraising person right now, so all board members just put forth ideas. Tshirts and memberships and printer box are main sources of money. Monica offered to research a Starbucks fundraiser someone was discussing a while back and will report back to the group.

BiblioTech (LSO webzine) ideas were discussed. There might be a slight change to website design and there were some suggestions offered. Possiblity raised of name change but no one thinks it’s necessary or a good idea so it will stay the same. (Suggestion raised that editors look at Marginal Librarian website for some design cues. Will do.)

Other program ideas raised: resume workshop, web portfolio program, archivist talk, possibly coordinate with SLA on some of the bigger events to pool resources?

Meeting adjourned around 4pm.

 

LSO Meeting Minutes, May 6, 2005

Present: David Lehmann (President), Jennifer Young (Jobs Coordinator), Xima Avalos (Fundraising Coordinator), Andrea Lemieux (Faculty/Student Liaison), Erica Hanke (Secretary & BiblioTech Coeditor), Jessica Langlois (Distance Student Liaison), Alan Pannell (Co-webmaster), Sabrina Thomas, Kristl Torres and Maggie Swanger.

1. Dave called the meeting to order at 5:20 p.m.

2. Secretary: Minutes from April 22, 2005 were approved, motioned by Dave and 2nd by Jessica.

3. New officers: The new officers are posted on the LSO webpage. The officers who confirmed their positions are: President: Andrea Lemieux, Program Coordinator: Sabrina Thomas, Social Coordinator: Monica Bafetti, Jobs Coordinator: Jennifer Young, Webmaster/Listserv Manager: Kat Gonzalez, Distance Student Liaison: Juliann Couture, BiblioTech Editors: Monica Bafetti & Nancy Matheny and Alumni Liaison: Jennifer Young. Special elections will be held for the open positions.

4. Webmasters: Will add new officers to the exec board listserv; old officers will be taken off after graduation. Will also post a list of graduates. The new student directory is causing students to get spam, which had been a concern, so Alan motioned to take the directory offline and send an updated email version each semester to the LSO listserv instead. It was seconded by Jennifer and approved.

5. Fundraising/Social Coordinator: We had 3 responses to the sponsorship letters. We have donations from Magpies, Coffee Exchange and the Tucson Fire Department, which is donating a fire extinguisher and first aid kit. Maggie offered to pick up those items. Still haven't found out anything about sending someone to ALA.

6. Faculty/Student liaison: The next faculty meeting is Wednesday. It will be the last one for the semester. Andrea will send out an email to the listserv after the meeting.

7. Graduation:

Refreshments - catering is scheduled to set up at 4:45.
Decorations - went shopping Sunday and bought decorations.
Awards - have not tallied the results for faculty awards but they will be tallied and the plaques engraved on Tuesday. Welburn will be the faculty speaker and Shawn Nelson will be the student speaker.

Music - Dave will email Allan Dew who was looking into music. We haven't heard anything yet. There was no money to hire a bartender for Strong Start.

8. Next meeting, May 18, 5:15 p.m. at SIRLS.

9. Motion to adjourn by Dave and seconded by Xima at 6:05 p.m.

LSO Meeting Minutes, April 22, 2005

Present: David Lehmann (President), Jennifer Young (Jobs Coordinator), Xima Avalos (Fundraising Coordinator), Andrea Lemieux (Faculty/Student Liaison), Erica Hanke (Secretary & BiblioTech Coeditor), Kelly Urman (Co-Webmaster), Jessica Langlois (Distance Student Liaison), Monica Bafetti (BiblioTech Coeditor) and Melanie Hetrick

1. Dave called the meeting to order at 5:14 p.m.

2. Secretary: Minutes from April 8, 2005 were approved, motioned by Dave and seconded by Kelly.

3. Treasurer: We have $1987.16 and $136.50 from the printer box and new memberships.

4. Webmasters: 52 people are now on the student directory. Working with Jennifer on updating the Job Opps page.

5. Fundraising/Social Coordinator: The BBQ at the park was cancelled the $14 to reserve the spot is non-refundable. Xima offered to pay that back to LSO. 80 letters were sent out to local businesses to request sponsorships. Still looking into getting grant funding to send someone to ALA in June.

6. Jobs Coordinator: Looking over completed surveys about what kind of jobs students want on the listserv. Will give information about signing up for live jobs listserv, which posts jobs that want more experience.

7. Graduation:

Invitations - were revised and mailed out on Monday.

Refreshments - need to plan for about 100 people. The order needs to be finalized 10 days in advance.

Decorations - Melanie reserved the tables from Tucson Party Rental. She reserved 10 round tables and chairs for $221. Planning to shop for decorations on May 1st.

Awards - had some responses for graduation speakers. Welburn is leading for faculty speaker. Andrea will send out emails to remind grads to write their bios and will send out an email to vote on the favorite faculty award (one for on campus and one for virtual classes). Leslie is requesting money to have alcohol and a bartender for Strong Start. We need more information before we make any decisions. If we can have the bar after Strong Start through graduation, we'll probably chip in but not if the bar is only for Strong Start.

8. Elections: Dave motioned to start nominations Monday, April 25th through Friday, April 29th and have voting run from May 1st through the 5th. Andrea motioned to create a new position, Alumni liaison to get alumni involved with the current students. There were concerns about whether it will be hard to fill another position. Jennifer will run for it and Jobs coordinator. Monica will run for BiblioTech editor.

9. Next meeting, May 6, 5:15 p.m. at SIRLS.

10. Motioned to adjourned by Dave and seconded by Kelly, 5:50 p.m.

 

LSO Meeting Minutes, April 8, 2005

Present: Andrea Lemieux (Faculty/Student Liaison), Erica Hanke (Secretary & BiblioTech Coeditor), Kelly Urman (Webmasters), Jessica Langlois (Distance Student Liaison), Monica Bafetti (BiblioTech Coeditor) and Melanie Hetrick

1. Andrea called the meeting to order at 5:20 p.m.

2. Secretary: Minutes from March 25, 2005 were approved, motioned by Kelly and 2nd by Melanie.

3. Faculty/Student Liaison: Met with Jana today. The report will be posted to the listserv.

4. Webmasters: Two new links are up, the graduation RSVP and the student directory. The directory can be found at http://timon.sir.arizona.edu/lso/directory.htm. Kelly motioned for approval that the directory should be posted, 2nd by Monica and approved. Melanie found a few dead links on the webpage.

5. BiblioTech: The new issue is up.

6. Graduation:

Invitations - Looked at mock up. The mock up was disliked. Board members felt there should be changes about the trash can, the color scheme, and people. We wanted a more professional invitation. The invitations are being sent to the printers on Monday.

Refreshments - We are still trying to decide how much food to order. The order needs to be placed by next week.

Decorations - We can't get tables and chairs from the school. Melanie will look into renting them. We'll need about 10 tables.

Awards - The committee is polling graduates about speakers.

7. Other: We need to start thinking about elections for summer and fall. We should also consider getting alumni more involved. Consider making a new position of alumni liason to keep in contact with alumni and get them to speak to current students.

8. Next meeting, April 22, 5:15 p.m. at SIRLS.

9. Motioned to adjourned by Erica and 2nd by Jessica, 6:05 p.m.

 

LSO Meeting Minutes, March 25, 2005

Present: David Lehmann (President), Andrea Lemieux (Faculty/Student Liaison), Erica Hanke (Secretary & BiblioTech Coeditor Alan Pannell and Kelly Urman (Webmasters), Jessica Langlois (Distance Student Liaison), Jennifer Young (Jobs Coordinator), Allen Dew, and Jana Bradley

1. Dave called the meeting to order at 5:25 p.m.

2. Secretary: Minutes from February 25, 2005 were approved, motioned by Dave and 2nd by Kelly.

3. Treasurer: The current balance is $2077.99. We had $100 from membership dues.

4. Faculty/Student Liaison: The feedback forms were sent out. The next faculty meeting is March 30th. Andrea will meet with Jana Bradley sometime after the meeting.

5. Jobs Coordinator: Jennifer is surveying to find out what students want posted on the Job Opps listserv.

6. Webmasters: Posted a sign-up page for the new student directory. Kelly motioned to go ahead and post the student directory, seconded by Dave and approved. Student directory will include a space for student websites.

7. Graduation: Virginia Sanchez is resigning and won't be able to help with graduation (there will be a memory book in the office to sign and a place for donations for a going away gift). All graduation questions should now go to Leslie Kunkle. Leslie will script the event. Jana Bradley will MC and give the student bios. The SIRLS graduation ceremony will take place on Saturday, May 14th. An interim reception for Strong Start attendees and graduating students will occur from 4-5pm. The graduation ceremony will be from 5-6pm. Music and free time to mingle from 6-7:30.

The food committee needs to see about catering. A 45-day advance notice is needed for catering from a variety of menus. The awards committee will find out if a student speaker is wanted and who would it be, Jennifer will email the graduating students about it. The decoration committee will use some left over decorations for a fiesta theme. Kelly will email students about borrowing more fiesta decorations. Christmas lights will be used for lighting. The design committee will need around 100 invitations. They will be postcard style with the fiesta theme. Also we are looking into the Nick Luca Trio to play at graduation. To check out more go to www.nickluca.com.

8. Next meeting, April 8, 5:15 p.m. at SIRLS.

9. Motioned to adjourned by Dave and 2nd by Heather, 6:20 p.m.

 

LSO Meeting Minutes, February 25, 2005

Present: David Lehmann (President), Andrea Lemieux (Faculty/Student Liaison), Erica Hanke (Secretary & BiblioTech Coeditor), Xima Avalos (Co-Social Activities Coordinator/Fundraiser), Erin Sweat (Vice President/Treasurer), Alan Pannell and Kelly Urman (Webmasters), Jessica Langlois (Distance Student Liaison), Monica Bafetti (BiblioTech Coeditor), Jennifer Young (Jobs Coordinator), Allen Dew, Maggie Swanger, Jana Olsen, Gabrielle Sykes-Casavant, Juliann Couture and Virginia Sanchez

1. Dave called the meeting to order at 5:20 p.m.

2. Secretary: Minutes from January 28, 2005 were approved, motioned by Dave and seconded by Kelly. Minutes from February 11, 2005 were approved, motioned by Dave and seconded by Kelly.

3. Treasurer: The current balance is $1977.96. We had $240 from membership dues, $270 from graduation tickets, and $131.60 from the printer box, $647.41 from SIRLS reimbursement and $132 from valentine sales (without taking out expenses).

4. Fundraiser/Social Coordinator: Selling tickets for Lame for a Game. Sell tickets for $5, we have to give back $3 to the Disability Resource Center. Bought 50 tickets to sell with SLA, the game is April 7th. Xima motioned to buy the minimum amount of victory cards to sell. The cards are discounts for Papa John's (buy a large, get a medium free). It was seconded by Dave. Xima motioned to create a list of local businesses to be approved to sponsor LSO and in return make a sponsor page on our website. There will be minimum $20 sponsorship, seconded by Monica. We will have a barbeque on Sunday, April 17th from 2-7:30 at one of the ramadas at Reid Park. It is $14 to reserve the ramada, $18 per 100 people for a beer permit and $40 for a permit to sell beer and food. Xima motioned to spend $14 to reserve the ramada and seconded by Kelly. Xima also motioned to check into getting ASUS club funding of $500 to sponsor one person to go to an ALA conference. It was seconded by Kelly.

5. Faculty/Student Liaison: Andrea met with Jana Bradley and a summary of the meeting was sent out on the LSO listserv. The next meeting is in March.

6. Jobs Coordinator: Jennifer is checking many job sources, trying to find jobs requiring only 2 years experience or less and posting 10 to 15 job positions per week on the Job Opps listserve.

7. Webmasters: We have a new server with more space. Graduation committees and sign-up page, town hall meeting and Phoenix get-together have all been posted and the calendar has been updated.

8. BiblioTech: We are working on having an issue out on April 9th. We are accepting submissions. Deadline is April 2nd.

9. Distant Student Liaison: Phoenix happy hour is set for next Friday and emails to promote it are being sent out.

10. Graduation: There were12-15 response to the email about where to have the graduation reception, majority said the SIRLS courtyard was good. Volunteers for committees are Monica Bafetti and Jessica Langlois for Refreshments; Jennifer Young and Andrea Lemieux for Awards; Erica Hanke, Erin Sweat and Kelly Urman for Decorations; Heather Phillips, Kristal Torres, Alan Pannell, Erica DeFrain and Clay Lewis for Design; Gabrielle Sykes-Casavant is checking with the Nick Luca Trio for Music. Volunteers are still needed.

11. Other: There was a very low turnout for the town meeting; transcript of the meeting will be posted. Library Institute will have a week long conference, May 31-June 4, for rural Arizona librarians. They are looking for students to help at the conference, 5 student guides and a coordinator. Please apply for one of the positions; it's a good way to make contacts.

12. Next meeting, March 25, 5:15 p.m. at SIRLS.

13. Motioned to adjourned by Dave and seconded by Xima, 6:35 p.m.

 

LSO Meeting Minutes, February 11, 2005

Present: David Lehmann (President), Andrea Lemieux (Faculty/Student Liaison), Erica Hanke (Secretary & BiblioTech Coeditor), Angela Basurto (Co-Social Activities Coordinator), Erin Sweat (Vice President/Treasurer), Allen Dew, Maggie Swanger and Leslie Kunkel

1. David Lehmann called the meeting to order at 5:15 p.m.

2. Next Meeting: Because of absentees, there will be reports on the Valentine sale, the student survey and the treasurer's report at the next meeting.

3. Graduation: We need volunteers to be on the graduation committees. They are Planning, Decorating, Food/Refreshment, Awards and Design/Marketing. Erin Sweat will send out an email to recruit volunteers. Andrea Lemieux will send an email surveying grads on where they would like to hold graduation. Erica Hanke and Erin Sweat volunteer for the decorating committee. Dave will have a formal agenda for graduation next meeting. We will start keeping a graduation binder to help with future graduations.

4. BiblioTech: The new issue is up. We had four articles. We are planning to have another issue this semester, but it is still unscheduled. We are still accepting submissions for the next issue.

5. Faculty/Student Liaison: Andrea is meeting with Jana Bradley next Wednesday. There has been a little feedback. They are considering having a town meeting with Jana to discuss new policies on admissions, financial aid, probation and appeals and advising with the SIRLS community.

6. SLA internship fair is March 10th, talk it up.

7. Next meeting, February 25, 5:15 p.m. at SIRLS.

8. Motioned to adjourned by Erin Sweat and seconded by Dave Lehmann, 5:55 p.m.

 

LSO Meeting Minutes, January 28, 2005

Present: David Lehmann (President), Andrea Lemieux (Faculty/Student Liaison), Kelly Urman (Co-Webmaster), Erica Hanke (Secretary & BiblioTech Coeditor), Monica Bafetti (BiblioTech Coeditor), Jessica Langlois (Distance Student Liaison), Xima Avalos (Fundraising Coordinator) and Allen Dew.

1. David Lehmann motioned to call the meeting to order at 5:20 p.m. and seconded by Jessica Langlois.

2. Webmaster: The special election for Social Coordinator and Jobs Coordinator has 3 votes and is open until February 1st. Look over the LSO website, officers need to check their sections to see if they need editing and the student handbook needs editing.

3. Vacant Positions: Election is in progress for Social Coordinator and Jobs Coordinator. Both positions are running uncontested. Xima Avalos and Angela Basurto are running together for social coordinators and Jennifer Young is running for jobs coordinator. The election ends Tuesday, February 1st and the position for program coordinator is still open.

4. BiblioTech: The new issue should be up Monday, January 31. We have four articles and are still accepting submissions for the next issue which is unscheduled at the moment.

5. Fundraiser: Considering selling Cactus cards (discount cards). Xima is also considering selling key chains and or stadium cups. Looking into having a cocktail night or Barbeque and selling tickets, could tie into selling cups. Xima motioned to spend $40 to create librarian Valentine postcards to sell for $1 a piece; seconded by David Lehmann.

6. Social Ideas: Bowling, movies, hikes, themed happy hours and maybe gather at Fat Tuesdays for Mardi gras. Get people involved-looking into a social survey. Kelly motioned to make a student contact list that includes name, email and city, state to make a directory for the LSO website; seconded by David Lehmann. Andrea Lemieux volunteered to start working on it.

7. Next meeting, February 11, 5:15 p.m. at SIRLS.

8. Motioned to adjourned by David Lehmann and seconded by Kelly Urman, 6:15 p.m

 

LSO Meeting Minutes, January 11, 2005

Present: David Lehmann (President), Erin Sweat (Vice President/Treasurer), Andrea Lemieux (Faculty/Student Liaison), Alan Pannell and Kelly Urman (Webmasters), Erica Hanke (Secretary & BiblioTech Coeditor), Monica Bafetti (BiblioTech Coeditor), Jessica Langlois (Distance Student Liaison), Xima Avalos (Fundraising Coordinator), Leslie Kent Kunkel (Academic Advising Coordinator), Maggie Swanger, Kathy Gardener, Bruce, Art, and Joy

1. David Lehmann called meeting to order at 6:00 p.m.

2. Treasurer's Report: Checkbook balance is $965.

3. Vacant Positions: We need to fill the positions of Program Coordinator, Social Coordinator and Jobs Coordinator. Motioned to start open nominations on January 18 through January 25th and voting will start January 26th through February 1st, by Erica Hanke and seconded by David Lehmann.

4. BiblioTech: We still need submissions for the next issue scheduled for the 1st of February. Deadline for submissions is January 21st.

5. Ideas: Get people involved—check class schedule and get people in each class to make announcements, pass out & put up flyers, check if there are flyer restrictions, notices need to go out sooner, send event announcements to the alumni listserve, get mailers out to new students and do something to help distant students find places to stay when in town.

6. Next meeting, January 28, 5:15 p.m. at SIRLS.

7. Motioned to adjourned by David Lehmann and seconded by Art, 7:00 p.m.