ALA UCLA Student Chapter
Officer Meeting
Tuesday September 30th 12:15-1:15
Minutes

Officers Present:
Teresa Bocanegra, Web Designer
Heather Daugherty, Co-President
Loren Frant, Co-Treasurer and Acting Secretary
Shana Johnson, Co-Publicity Officer
Ajit Pyati, Co-President and Acting Vice President
Lyndsay Ommen, Co-Treasurer
Claire Scarborough, Co-Publicity Officer


Welcome Back:
• Summer News
• Announcements, etc.

ALA Used Textbook Sale Report:
• Lyndsay & Loren reported on fall quarter book sale
• $33.22 profit, sold all of the books available for fall courses
• Officers discussed increasing ALA profit from $2.37
***Decided on a $4 profit
• Officers discussed other fundraising ideas
***General booksale
Used Textbook Sale Action Items:
• Lyndsay: Update sale form with new amount and put new copies in the box in the commons
• Lyndsay/Loren/Claire/Shana: collaborate to advertise fall quarter textbook collection and winter quarter textbook sale

First Chapter Meeting:
• Agenda to include RORA, possible fall quarter events (LAPL downtown library tour), elections, national membership
*** LAPL tour of central library, can be specialized to our group for 10 or more people
• Fridays are good for the tour, perhaps Oct. 17, Nov. 7 or Nov 21
• Date set for Monday October 6, 12:45-1:15
First Chapter Meeting Action Items:
• Loren: reserve room for chapter meeting
• Loren: Create a 1 page document describing officer duties to distribute on Oct. 6 and via Email
• Claire/Shana: send publicity Email for chapter meeting
• Heather/Ajit: create agenda for chapter meeting, print out agenda for attendees
• Heather: contact LAPL central library for more information on group tours

Elections:
• We will announce elections in the meeting on Oct. 6 and via an Email on that same date
• People’s statements are due to Ajit by Monday Oct. 13
• Members must vote by Wednesday Oct. 22
Elections Action Items:
• Loren: send new members list to Teresa to update website
• Loren: place ballots in members’ mailboxes on Oct. 15
• Teresa: Update website with new members and remove graduates
• Ajit: Email Beverly Lynch regarding election dates and find out her availability for counting the votes so that we can set a date to announce the new officers
• Ajit: collect candidate statements and collaborate with publicity officers to send statements out to voters
• Claire/Shana: collaborate with Ajit regarding publicizing candidate statements
• Unassigned: create ballot sheets

South Africa Presentation:
• Heather & Loren are willing to create a presentation about their experiences in South Africa
• Would like to broaden the topic to international librarianship in general
***Could talk to Richardson, Maack, Sylva, and international students in the program
• Should coordinate event date with WLP’s Email to the listservs, maybe winter?
SA Action Items:
• Loren: contact WLP and find out when they plan to advertise to MLS programs

Other Action Items:
• Heather: investigate wipe board or wall calendar for student group events for the commons