ALA UCLA Student Chapter

General Meeting (Fall 2006)- Minutes

Tuesday, November 17, 2006

Officers Present:

            Candice Mack – Co Presiden
            Melanee Vicedo – Co President
            John Khuu – Co Vice-President
            Pearl Ly – Co Vice-President
            Greg Hom – Co Publicity
            Isabelle Ramos – Co Publicity
            Will Breitbach – Co Treasurer
            Brenda Linares – Co Treasurer
            Laura Gonzales – Co Secretary/Archivist

Welcoming of New Board Members

• Instead of a group picture, new members will send a picture of themselves for Matt Wittmer (Webmaster) to incorporate into the website.  Later on, we will take a group photo.

 

• Matt to add 2nd year ALA members to the website

Reportbacks

• Candice and Pearl will contact YALSA to allow them to use their funds as needed for purchase of books. 

 

• Leslie Burger will stay 1 night at the Guest House (cost ~ $250).  One topic suggested for her talk is Library Leadership.  We could do her talk and schedule a tour of the Santa Monica Public Library at the same time.
• Susan Curzon – she will speak on campus in late January

 

• Judith Krug wants to stay 2 nights (cost ~ $350)
• Sandy Berman

Plans:
Greg will contact Berman about her plans
We would like to offer her 2 days stay
Having her at the Social Sciences Research Library would be an opportunity for members to visit her and the library
Funding:
We will try to get other groups to co-sponsor the event or the UCLA Library
            Brenda will contact Miki Goral about the Library co-sponsoring
Will to look into Graduate Student Aid (GSA) to help fund
Pearl will attend Discretionary meeting on Monday

Tours

• SRLF – Still on for a tour, Will to reschedule for winter quarter

 

• Santa Monica Public Library – Possible to be scheduled with Leslie Burger talk, Candice will look into the Center for Student Programming (CSP) for help funding this event
• LAPL Central – Candice will see about a “behind-the-scenes” tour into cataloguing, bindery, special collections, or any other topics not covered in the main tour

 

• LAPL Lake View Terrace – Pearl looking into a possible tour
• Powell Library - cancelled

 

• Other ideas: We could cosponsor an event with Student Governing Board of a panel of UCLA academic librarians (or other librarians) in different fields talking about their experiences

Events

• RORA (Reach Out and Read Aloud) – possible volunteering with YALSA, John and Pearl are working on this, Laura volunteered

 

• Resume/Mock Interview Workshop – Isabelle will talk to Keri Botello about collaborating on this event, we will see if other groups want to collaborate
• Internship Workshop w/ SLA – Opportunity for 2nd years to talk about their internship experiences to 1st year students informally

 

Committees

• Professional Development – Candice and Melanee leading, gathering volunteers

 

• Service – Pearl and John leading, finding volunteers for the RORA and YALSA’s Nidorf project
• Fundraising – Brenda and Will leading, gathering volunteers

 

• Publicity/Outreach – Isabelle and Greg leading, gathering volunteers
• Social – Laura and Marie leading, gathering volunteers

 

Additional Agenda Items/Questions/Comments

• We currently have ~$290

 

• We will give other groups until next quarter to come up with a budget
• Everyone needs to check the speaker checklist from Clara Chu

 

• Matt needs to add links to amazon.com for books for next quarter and needs to update the webpage
• Isabelle will ask professors about their booklists to add to the website

 

• Someone will send a mass e-mail about searching amazon.com through our website for books and gifts (Christmas) to help us fund speakers
• Discussion about Library Safety due to recent events (tasering incident)- undecided, possibly no event