WLA Executive Board Minutes, February 2001
PRESENT
Diana Oedekoven, Laura Grott, Trish Palluck, Erin Kinney, R. Scott Kinney, Carey Hartmann, Helen Higby, Amy Shelley, Lucie Osborn, Lesley Boughton, Mary Rhoads, Teresa Authier, Ara Anderson, Marcia Wright, Susan Cuthbertson.
CALL TO ORDER
President, Mary Rhoads called the meeting to order at 1:10 p.m. Introductions were made by those present.
MINUTES
Teresa Authier moved to accept minutes of December 8, 2000 meeting. Amy Shelley seconded the motion. Motion passed.
PRESIDENT'S REPORT
Mary Rhoads reported that she had had a phone call from NASA representative Scott Marrett who does education and public outreach programs. He was interested in doing a program for the children=s section meeting in Jackson this summer and thought he could also do a program at Teton County Library. There was some discussion about the Indian Paintbrush, Soaring Eagle, and Buckaroo awards. Amy Shelley reported that the ad-hoc committee has already addressed this(see attached revision) and it just needs to be brought to the by-laws committee.
TREASURER'S REPORT
Laura Grott distributed and reviewed the financial statements. Lesley Boughton reiterated that LSTA is a federally funded grant therefore WLA cannot earn interest on it. Laura said that she will talk to an accountant to find out how to correctly report assets, liabilities and interest on the budget statement.
OTHER REPORTS
ALA - Councilor Lucie Osborn submitted a written report. She also reported that the LIBRARIES AND INTERNET Toolkit has been updated on the ALA website. ALA promotional materials can be personalized for your library. Lucie wanted to emphasize that the ALA website is a great place to go for information. Conferences are listed on the ALA website so there will be no conflicts hopefully.
MPLA - Ara Anderson submitted a written report. The next meeting will be held in Denver in April.
State Library Report - Lesley Boughton submitted a written report.
SECTION REPORTS
Academic/Special Library - Erin Kinney
No Report.
Children/Young Adult - Amy Shelley submitted a written report.
Amy reported that the chair elect for the Children/Young Adult section has resigned. The next meeting will be in Casper May 11-12, 2001.
Government Information - Diana Oedekoven
No Report.
Paraprofessional - Laurie Lye (given by Trish Palluck) submitted a written report.
Public - Carey Hartmann reported that the chair elect for this section has also resigned. The next meeting will be in Casper on April 27, 2001. They will need to discuss what to do with their funds at that time. No written report was submitted.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
Awards Committee - Erin Kinney
No Report.
Intellectual Committee Report-Oral report by Marcia Wright requesting to support the ALA action on CIPA(see following New Business report).
Electronic Communications Committee - Written report submitted.
Teresa Authier moved to allow the Mountain Plains Library Association to host their membership form on the WLA secure server. Second by Lucie Osborn. Motion passed.
Laura Grott presented the folders that Mary Jayne Jordan had developed with the brochures for all the sections. It was decided that the folders were a great idea for recruiting purposes but that the president should appoint a separate editing committee to look them over before distributing them.
OLD BUSINESS
Trish Palluck stated that the 2001 conference business would be covered in new business.
No other old business reported.
NEW BUSINESS
Lucie Osborn handed out information about CIPA(Children's Internet Protection Act) and the ALA resolution regarding it. The FCC is calling this act "CHIP" which can cause some confusion. There was discussion from Lucie Osborn, the ALA representative, Ara Anderson, the MPLA representative, and Marcie Wright, the Intellectual Freedom Committee Chair that led to the Wyoming resolution in support of legal action by ALA on CIPA.
Lucie Osborn moved for the WLA to accept the adoption of the ALA resolution(see attached). Seconded by Trish Palluck. Motion passed.
It was discussed that everyone within the Wyoming library community needs to become aware of what CIPA is and how it can affect our libraries.
Amy Shelley said that the Laramie County Library System was having a Families Online Week since it seems that most bad things that are happening are occurring in the home during unsupervised times. Libraries, she feels, are pro-active. It was felt that before libraries put an internet policy into effect there needs to be a code of conduct in place.
Mary Rhoads discussed raising the Wyoming Library Association dues and had a comparison of surrounding states dues to help finance the conference.
Carey Hartmann moved that information be gathered regarding dues and conference income and expenditures of WLA over the last 5 years to assist in reaching a decision on how to finance WLA in the future. Seconded by Ara Anderson. Motion passed.
It was determined that the 2002 conference date conflicted with MPLA.
Carey Hartmann moved that the 2002 conference date be either September 18-21 or October 23-26 in Casper depending on availability and reasonable cost of hotel.
Trish Palluck will make the final decision and it will be sent on to program council.
Trish Palluck handed out a new amended 2001 conference budget(negating the one in the budget packet). Mamie Bittner will be the keynote speaker for the conference. Trish asked that people continue to submit proposals for the conference and what couldn't be used this year could be used in upcoming years.
Lucie Osborn moved to change the 2001 conference registration to $55.00. Amy Shelley seconded the motion. Motion passed.
The next executive board meeting will be held on Tuesday September 25, 2001 from 5-8 p.m. in Cody Wyoming.
Meeting was adjourned at 4:35 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Teresa Authier, Recording Secretary