ACRL DVC Board Meeting Minutes – December 19, 2018

December 19, 2018

ACRL DVC Board Meeting Minutes

Attendees:  Adam Mizelle, Jess Denke, Stefani Gomez, Elise Ferer, Jessica Brangiel, Karen Sheldon, Carol Howe

• November meeting minutes were reviewed and approved.  They will be posted to the blog after the meeting.

• Financial report (Adam)
  • Taxes were due in November, still in the works.  There are no late fees.
  • Chapter funds in good shape.  
  • Question came up about raising membership and/or program attendance fees
    • It’s been sometime since we have raised either.  More money through increased membership? Allows to give back more to the chapter (student stipends, member travel grants etc.)
  • What is our spending budget?
    • Adam to start a draft budget

• Mentorship Program update (Stefani)
  • We have five new matches of mentors/mentees
    • We will do some assessment in February of how things are going for mentors

• Program updates
  • The fall program planning committee created a “lessons learned” document on Drive to document best practices when organizing DVC programs
  • We will find out about Scholarly Communications Roadshow on Friday – Jess to email the group
    • If we get the grant that will be the spring program if not then have to plan spring program.   
    • Update since the December meeting – we got the Scholarly Roadshow Grant.
• Looking ahead to spring
  • Resume Review – March
    • Outreach
      • We have a list of different chapters, schools to contact for resume review we will reach out to past reviewer volunteers

• Board elections
  • Election for open board positions will begin in March
    • Open positions include VP, Director at Large and Secretary
  • Nancy has list of people interested in running on board.  
  • Past President (Nancy) runs election

• Legislative Day – May
  • http://www.ala.org/advocacy/nlld –  In light of ALA’s Annual Conference, which will take place in Washington, D.C. on June 20-25, 2019, the next National Library Legislative Day will occur in 2020.
  • Let’s think about local legislative outreach opportunities

• Web update – Karen
  • Archiving website
    • Karen will reach out to Leslie to archive old website before it’s taken down.

• Blog update – Megan
  • Table of Contents (TOC) email  – Jessica to look into further
  • Megan doing a meet the board member series.

• Social committee update – Elise/Adam
  • Working on Books Through Bars (47th and Baltimore) event to be held January/February

• Next board meeting: January 16 12:00-1:30 PM