Board Minutes from the October 2019 Meeting

October 16, 2019
ACRL DVC Board Meeting Minutes
Attendees: Stefani, Jess, Adam, Mary, Elise, Jasmine, Karen, Meaghan

  • The Board reviewed and approved September Meeting Minutes
    • Minutes will summarize discussions (avoiding personal information) and report decisions.
  • Financial Report Summary
  • Fall Conference updates
    • 38 people have registered (with 34 paying.) We hope to get 10 more registrations.
    • We received and chose proposals for the morning sessions.
    • Lorin Jackson, the leader of the afternoon workshop is unexpectedly unable to attend. The Theatre of the Oppressed nyc has agreed to provide a workshop on short notice for $1500
    • We’ll send another call for registration with updated information.
    • Stefani will meet with new workshop presenters.
    • Conference day help is needed:
      • Welcome table, name tags, registration lists, swag.
      • Jess and Stefani will write thank you cards for presenters
      • Jess will print programs
      • Publicize a twitter hashtag and ask people to live tweet
  • Mentoring Program & Stipend
    • We received and reviewed three applications and awarded the stipend to Drexel student Shelley Rosen
    • We’ll send a closure email to last year’s participants and also send out a call for this year’s mentorship program.
  • Legislative Day
    • Legislative Day will be held May 4-5, 2020. The board discussed whether we should recruit chapter members to participate and if so, how we might support participation.
  • Processes
    • The secretary will send an action item list to the Board two weeks before the upcoming meeting and send a draft of the minutes one week before the meeting. Once minutes are approved at the meeting, they’ll be posted to the blog.
  • The Public artsquest movie event post mortem
    • The event was a success – 50 people attended although they were mostly local people – very few ACRL/DVC members attended.
    • The talk-back went very well and people expressed gratitude for the event.
  • Social Committee Update
    • Elise has a location survey ready to distribute at the fall program (Online poll, time at program and send out on social media)
  • OER Community of Practice – Jasmine, Jessica
    • Jasmine and Jessica are creating a list of resources and events and hope to connect to other groups in the area.

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