IRRTebminutes051414
IRRT Executive Board Meeting
May 14, 2014 Minutes
Call to order
Agenda approved
Minutes of April 23, 2014 meeting approved with changes
Attendance: Cramer, Hickok, Ritzen-Kem, Hover, Garcia-Febo, Kear, Luedtke Officer reports:
Chair: Beth will create a contact list for ALA Annual. Going to send a piece to Kevin Murphy, International Leads, co-editor.
Chair elect: No update
Secretary/treasurer: No update
Members at large: (Hickok) No update; (Hover) No update
Standing Committees:
• Replacement for Pre-Conference co-chair: Kear has a couple of names to consider
• Reception decision: (Garcia-Febo) No update on location (Hickok) Suggestions forwarded to IOC/IRRT Office
• Orientation: (Hickok) Committee has two Las Vegas librarians in place to present the orientation PPT; Hickok will see that they share the PPT with the IVC Committee
Ad Hoc Committee Reports:
• Fundraising plan: Met with the committee on May 2 to come up with ideas for endowment re-launch. The donation letter needs to be approved by the IOC/IRRT Office.
Task force reports:
Liaison/representative task force: discussion on next steps; some possible topics.
We will wait until after annual to proceed with contacts to other units.
Hickok will send out most recent version of spreadsheet.
Kem will contact Joan Weeks to update our web site for liaisons/representatives.
ALA Promotion Membership Task Force will remain active on the Liaison list. Old Business:
ALA is producing a draft of the new membership brochure. Delin will send out to IRRT EB.
New Business:
International Leads deadline May 15
Beth will send a summary of IRRT events to Cognotes for Annual conference. Will send to cognotes@ala.org by June 2.
A'nnouncements, updates, comments, general discussion:
Meetings scheduled for June 18: primary focus plans for annual, agenda for executive board meeting, and additional end of year business.
Meeting adjourned at 12:47 pm