Chapter Cabinet:  SLA Leadership Summit - Reno, Nevada, USA  - 26 January 2007

Chapter Reports:

Administrative Actions:

• Virtual Board meeting and updated website (Wisconsin)
• Special commissioned certificates of appreciation for 18 month terms (San Andreas)
• Voted electronically for second time and new Strategic Plan (Saint Louis Area)
• Membership Survey results released in November - last done in 1993 (North Carolina)
• Chapter member survey - guides program planning (Alabama)
• PayPal payments now accepted (Georgia)
• Annual Meeting conducted over CoP over a one week period (Asian Chapter)
• Redesigned website and introduction of a Wikki and RSS feed. (Asian Chapter)
• Actively seeking country representatives for board (Asian Chapter)
• Updated website (Australia/New Zealand)
• New Membership Pack with tailored insert and participation in SLA advertising campaign (SLA Europe)
• Generic email addresses made for president and membership (SLA Europe)
• News Update distributed via discussion list (SLA Europe)
• First virtual board meeting using Live Meeting (Florida and Caribbean)
• Participation in chapter discussion list (SLA_ARCH) increased 91% when President-elect became part of the Information Technology Committee (Saint Louis Area)
• Created a blog to use for meeting announcements and related events (HudsonValley)
• Wikis development for Denver area guide (RockyMountain)
•  Chapter Blog (Saint Louis Area)
• New Member promotion - new members receive coupon to attend chapter program free (Saint Louis Area)
  
  

Joint Meetings with Other Groups:

• Hollywood's Image of Librarians with Memphis Area Library Council (Mid-South)
• Networking event and Holiday Party with AALL (Minnesota)
• Networking dinner with Charlotte Law Librarians; Joint Meeting with South Carolina SLA in Mint Museum, Charlotte (North Carolina)
• Moving at the Speed of Byte:  Emerging Technologies for Information Management with MLA/ICON (medical library consortium) (Omaha)
• Holiday Dinner with LACASIS featuring NBC4 journalist Beverly White (Southern California)
• Career Planning & Networking Reception with AALL, SMLA, St. Louis Regional Library Network and Missouri Library Network Corp (Saint Louis Area)
• Holiday Happenings at end of year with GSLLC, AALL, SMLA, MLNC and SLRLN (Saint Louis Area)
• Cyber security with Law Librarians of Wisconsin (videoconference) (Wisconsin)
• Chapter meeting at the Texas Medical Association (Texas)
• Baltimore Conference Report with Jason Ashton held with LIANZA (Australia/New Zealand)
• Joint events planned with SCIP (HudsonValley)
  

Fundraisers:

• Scholarship fundraiser, silent auction and wine tasting (RockyMountain)
• Silent Auction fundraiser for student support (North Carolina)
  
  

Networking, Food and Dine Arounds:

• Planning Lunch, Members Dinner; Weekend Lunch, Christmas Breakfast (Australia/New Zealand)
• Dinner at Graziella's (White Plains, NY); dinner at Zanaro's (White Plains, NY) (HudsonValley)
• Dine Arounds in North Carolina and Washington, DC and 'Wine Arounds' in New Jersey
• Area lunches (Southern California)
• Downtown Librarian Lunch (Saint Louis Area)
• Chapter Reception in Baltimore (Texas)
  
  

Miscellaneous and Fabulous Facts:

• Mentoring Program in semester-long internships (Alabama)
• Many Asian Chapter members met in person for the first time at the Baltimore Conference
• Student and  Faculty Liaison Committee (SLA Europe)
• Charity Meeting - 10% of the chapter budget is allocated to local organizations for books, videotapes, DVDs etc. (Mid-South)
• SARC III - third annual South Atlantic Regional Conference (North Carolina)
• Hosted Leadership Summit 2006 (Texas)