ALA UCLA Student Chapter

Officers Meeting (Fall 2004)- Minutes

Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Officers Present:

Called to order: 9:19 p.m.

• Welcome to new officers!
• Transitional issues
• RORA contact person at Center for the Book: Trish Garone [Chris]
• set up next training session
• coordinate new volunteers
• Website to be cleaned up [Ken]
• old information on site to be archived
• new member list updates
• pictures of activities to be posted
• fact sheet
• End of Quarter Wrap-Up
• 2 text book sales successful
• student group happy hour at Acapulco
• new member sign ups
• new RORA volunteers
• newly founded YALSA committee (Amy Pelman contact person)
• Young Adult Librarian Panel
• Co-sponsored Outfoxed with SLA
• Secured ALA president Carol Brey-Casiano to speak

• Future events still in Fall quarter
• Even Start volunteer opportunity [Joanna]

• Winter Quarter events
• Textbook sale [Brian and Jamie]
• Job panels: interviewing panel, resume panel (co-sponsor opportunities)
• Children’s librarian panel
• Anime/manga panel with YALSA committee
• ALA conference attendee panel tentatively for spring quarter [Myleen]
• General meeting- date to be decided
• Another student group happy hour: tentatively at Library Ale House
• Fundraising possibilities: bowling, Texas Hold’em Tournament
• Viewing party for “the Librarian” possibility [Joanna]

• Tour possibilities with public library focus
• LAPL [Joanna]
• Cerritos [Chris]
• East Los Angeles [Myleen]

• Possible Spring events
• ALA conference attendees panel [Myleen and Ken]
• Recent Graduate Panel

• ALA midwinter discussed
• January 14-19 in Boston, Massachusetts

• Hawaii Student Chapter Update
• Outreach- what happened to them due to the storm and flooding? [Chris]

Meeting adjourned: 9:45 p.m.