ALUW Executive BOARD MEETING, November 18, 1999


Present:  Anne Zald, Christina Byrne, Rob Estes, Venta Silins, Linda Pitts
 

1. Program Committee

Christina Byrne reported that the Program Committee is working on these ideas:

 A brown bag with the new chair and Vice Chair of the Faculty Senate, or perhaps a Winter Quarter meeting or a special afternoon meeting

 The Center for the Book, possibly for the Winter quarter meeting

 Books and Beverages; thanks to Elaine Jennerich who has volunteered do this program again.

 Another session on Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to update the one held in February 1999

 A panel of librarians from departmental libraries that aren't part of the UW Libraries system, perhaps for the Spring quarter meeting

 A brown bag for the temporary librarians (suggested by the LAPC)

 President McCormick and Campus Conversations
 
 

2. LSA Holiday Part Co-Sponsorship

We voted in favor of co-sponsoring the party.
 

3. Report from the Legislative Committee

Anne reported that although the survey respondents were overwhelmingly in favor of continuing legislative activities, the overall results of the
survey were disappointing.  106 librarians-fully 67% of us--did not respond.  However, these results can be interpreted in different ways.
The Board was reluctant to accept non-response as a full "No."  We still do not have a clear direction from the membership as to what we should do about future ALUW legislative efforts.

There has been a lot of turnover in the campus Office of Government Relations; this is the office that does lobbying for the campus.
Regardless of what we do in Olympia, we need to put some effort into educating this new crew.

We need to re-survey the membership; Anne will send out an e-mail asking folks who haven't returned the survey to please send it in now.  If there is not strong enough support to continue present levels of legislative activities, some options would be: don't have a lobbyist, retain the lobbyist only in budget-writing years (no lobbyist in the off years); work through the campus lobbyist; rely on the membership to lobby directly.
 

4. Dues solicitation of the membership

We decided that we will need to solicit dues from the membership; we'll work on this in December or January. We won't solicit funds for
legislative activities at this time; we will do that later if the survey responses are positive.
 

5. Other Business

Anne sent letters to the WA state legislative delegation in the House of Representatives about an database antipiracy bill which would have had provided broad protections to database vendors for copyright control of database content and downstream uses of that information.

The SLIS Alumni Association will be contacting the Board to discuss Project Network, the Association's student mentoring program.

Rob will change the bank account so that funds can be transferred from the checking account to the savings account by phone.

If the membership decides to continue funding legislative activities, we might set up a separate account for those funds.
 

Submitted by Linda Pitts, ALUW Secretary


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