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MEETING MINUTES

APLIC-I Board of Directors Spring 2001 Meeting
March 26, 2001

Meeting was called to order at 3:25pm Monday. Ten people were in attendance:

  1. Bill Barrows
  2. Julia Cleaver
  3. Gretl Cox
  4. Peggy D'Adamo
  5. Jane Goett
  6. Anil Kumar
  7. Zuali Malsama
  8. Susan Pasquariella
  9. Margie Shiels
  10. Kay Willson

Minutes for the previous meeting held in North Carolina last fall were reviewed. Click here for text of last board meeting.

Peggy D'Adamo mentioned she wants to look at the room later for our conference meeting to check on the setup and decide about the breakout sessions. Minutes were approved (motion by Bill Barrows; Anil Kumar seconded).

COMMITTEE REPORTS
Committee reports will be presented at the business meeting and prepared reports will be in the conference handout package. At the meeting we will only review problems or new issues that may have arisen.

Brief discussion was held on the need for a Publications Committee? We probably don't really need the position because we do the Communicator electronically along with the conference proceedings.

Nominating Committee report was presented by Peggy--all positions are now filled.

International relations report by Susan Pasquariella, covered the Global Knowledge Partnership (information gathered at the World Bank meetings in Toronto and Kuala Lampur) and the fact that its portal is no longer being financed by WB. The name of the World Bank gateway will now be the Development Gateway and they expect to start a foundation to maintain the gateway.

OLD BUSINESS

  • Union List Status: This will be discussed at the business meeting. Margie Shiels reported that the current list is 3500 entries. It is too big to email to everyone for review and addition. And we can't afford to convert it to anything else. One of the breakout sessions at the conference will be about online cataloging via the web (Lisa Sanders will present information on Librarycom.com). Perhaps this will provide us with a way to update or revise the list if enough people decide to participate.

  • APLIC-I Brochure: We have a large supply printed up and available to use for recruiting and promotion. The text of brochure should be put up on the website. Peggy will investigate saving it to PDF for web.

  • Electronic Resource guides: What new topics should be addressed? Peggy will bring this up during her breakout session of the APLIC-I website. (Are these publications that would be handled by the Publications Committee?) We have not gotten back much feedback from APLIC-I members, either positive or negative. But the broader audience they reach is very pleased with it. UNFPA loves it and so do other people. The guide most frequently used is the one on HIV/AIDS followed by the one on Internet training. The least popular is the guide on citations. Members are urged to publicize the Electronic Resource guides on their own sites.

  • Conference attendance is expected to be 35 people, with a large number (14) of first-time attendees. One attendee who could not get organizational funding to attend (Stephanie Martin of AED) will be a volunteer (note taking) in lieu of her registration fee (she will not be attending the banquet).

The meeting was adjourned at 3:45pm and was followed by collating the conference packets and examining the conference room.

APLIC 2001 Conference Agenda

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