Board Meeting Minutes

SLA Boston Board Meeting
March 25, 2009, 6pm - Rotch Library Conference Room, MIT, Cambridge, MA

Present:
Dorothy Barr, Kris Liberman, Heather McCann, Emilie Codega, Alan Thibeault, Nichole
Willson, Khaliah Gambrell, Beth Giana, Jamie Emery, Alex Caracuzzo

Dorothy called the meeting to order at 6:18pm.

Minutes:
Minutes of the February 12, 2009 Board meeting were accepted.

Treasurer's Report: as of 3/25/2009:
Savings (mandatory): $25
Checking: $2,530.82
Money Market: $18,455.87
PayPal: $0
Total: $21,011.69
Treasurer certifies that SLA Boston is financially solvent. A motion to accept the Treasurer's Report was passed unanimously.

Boston Programming:

• Usability Event:
  Two events planned: a traditional speaker on the evening of 4/7/09 and a hands-on day event in the Simmons usability lab on 4/14/09. Save the Date notices will go out tomorrow, March 26, 2009
• Career Event: Career coach Melissa Fristrom will speak on 4/28/09. Still need an event location.
• EBSCO: Possibly in July. Gloria Zamora may speak, but this is very tentative.
• Portland Program
• Other Events:
  • Schedule a CT Valley/Hartford event?
  • Green program could be combined with the EBSCO event, as a backup if Gloria
    can't come
  • Low Budget/High Technology Panel. Possible speakers?
• Build a programming brainstorming wiki off board page
• Programming Venues:
  Discussed potential venues: Hotel at Riverside. Based on the survey, we need to spread out event locations. Send to board for additional venue ideas.
• Programming Vendor Support:
  • Heather displayed Tom's Google Docs spreadsheet with vendor contacts. She will send it to the board.
  • Deb is no longer a contact at InfoCurrent
    

Day on the Job: Attendees from Simmons & Hartford.

SLA Scholarship & Stipend:

• Winner will serve on Student Relationship Committee.
• Move award to Fall so winner can be involved with Day on the Job
• Heather, Beth, and Emilie will review applications with Karen and Jaimie
• Chapter will award up to $1,800 for registration, airfare, & lodging (no meals included)
• Mid April/1st week of May announcement
  

Minority Scholarship

• Possibly rename scholarship after a prominent member of color. Contact Guy St. Clair to identify potential names from SLA's history.
• Scholarship for education - how much money should the chapter award?
• Other ways to reach out to individuals of color in the library field: ask EBSCO to sponsor memberships (approx. $160) for graduates
  

Adjournment:
Meeting was adjourned at 7:26pm.

Submitted by
Beth Giana, Secretary