ACRL DVC
November Board Meeting
Participants: Jess, Stefani, Adam, Nancy, Leslie, Jessica B. Carol, Megan, Adam
- October meeting minutes were approved
- Financial report was provided by Adam
- There is an outstanding check to Emma Antobam-Ntekudzi for over $750 not yet cashed, and an initial 1-year payment for the PO Box for $112. There was also a single renewal for $15.
- P.O. Box update – Adam has taken the lead on this. It has been reserved. Adam will be going to the 30th & Market facility to finalize and receive the box number. This should be done by November 28th. It is paid up for a year ($112) and will be due to renew on 12/31/19.
- Update from Adam: I am proud to report that as of Tues, Nov 27 we are PO Box 8731 at the post office at 3000 Chestnut St in Philadelphia, 19104-8731. I left today with one key and am awaiting the others.
- Mentorship Program update – Stefani
- 13 people have been confirmed as mentors and 6 people have been nominated for mentorships. The email template is in Stipend and Mentorship program document in the Fall Program Planning 2018. I have matched 4 mentees with mentors and sent out emails making introductions. I emailed Molly Olney-Zide to see if she would mentor, a 5th mentee, an mls grad interested in technical services. The matches can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12nkyye0WnQnuf9lU4Vz_UxZUERqlIPCEIfSQTFtW-jo/edit?usp=sharing
Fall program recap
- 55 Attendees
- Feedback
- The Fall Planning Committee will be reviewing feedback and will capture lessons learned and suggestions for next programming committee.
- Twitter archive? – Leslie – emailed
- Blog post went up with all lightning round presentations
- Comments, questions, concerns?
- Blog update – Megan
- Emma’s travel grant blog post is up on the site.
- Website update – Karen
- Karen has built a rough site in WordPress to show what it would look like. I added a new Volunteering section and restructured the content some what. If everyone could take a look at it and provide me with some feedback, that would be very helpful: http://wordpress.acrldvc.org/
- She will also need access to our Wild Apricot account if we are going to go forward in order to add the widgets to the WordPress site.
- Social committee update – Elise
- We had 2 individuals volunteer to serve on the social committee!
- They are working on planning event for early winter on social justice. Adam has also joined the committee.
- Upcoming event that DVC members are invited to attend: SLA Philadelphia holiday event: November 29th from 6-8 PM. Drexel University Academic Bistro, 101 N. 33rd st. 6th floor. $40 for ACRL DVC members. Registration: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WQD28Z5.
- @Spring 2019 Program: Stefani and Jess applied to host the ACRL Scholarly Communications Roadshow (deadline was 11/16). We will find out if we get the stipend (which would lower our costs to $2,000) by Friday, December 21st.
- Still need location, food vendor
- Will apply for PALA CRD grant to fund it.
- Needed to represent what we would do after the program to support members professional development and work in scholarly communications. We described a group that would collectively recommend and read articles and develop relationships for the purpose of encouragement, support, and mentorship in scholarly communication projects.
- We had 2 individuals volunteer to serve on the social committee!
- Next board meeting: December 19th 12:00-1:30 PM