October 27, 2000 -- SCLS Blue Room

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The meeting was called to order at 10:02 by James Olney.

The Minutes were approved by Della Bucher and Suzanne Johnson.

Treasurer's Report:
Treasurer's Report: A. Lehner reported there is currently a balance of $7,345.71.

President's report:
L. Tesoriero reported Steven Cohen is the newly elected treasurer of the Long Island Library Conference. Next month there will be a joint mailing of the newsletter, renewal forms and the bylaws. There was also discussion about surveys. There is a revision of the application/renewal form that will include support staff.

DASL:
S. Ketcham e-mailed her report. There is meeting at Southampton College Library simultaneous to this meeting. Agenda items include 1)final touches to new banner design and 2) May conference ideas. Our next meeting will be on December 8th at NYT/Central Islip. Following our business meeting we will have our annual luncheon at the campus' Culinary Institute. We'd love to have you join us. The cost will be set at the Oct 27th meeting.

October 6th we had our program "Publish or Perish : What's a Librarian to do? It was held at SCC/Selden. Attendance was good. Our guest speakers were: Gloriana St. Clair, Univ. Librarian at Carnegie Mellon and the founding managing editor of Portal: Libraries and the Academy with Johns Hopkins Press, Michael Koenig, Dean of the Palmer School of Library and Information Science (LIU) and Jyoti Pandit, Government Documents librarian at Stony Brook.

November 17th at the Farmingdale Public Library, we will be co-sponsoring a program with the Continuing Education Committee entitled: Library Rage II: Dealing with Difficulty Patrons. Speakers/Topics include: Susan Dennis/Difficult Patron Syndrome ; Mike Daly/Successful Youth Program ; Diane Holliday/Analysis of Library Patron Behavior Policies ; Lt. Andrew Mulrain/Profiling. Refreshments 9:30 - 10 AM Program 10 - 2 pm. Registration is $10.00 Members, $15.00 Nonmembers. Check are payable to SCLA and are to be sent to Carol Gray, Middle Country Public Library by November 10th. 3 CEU credits will be awarded.

RASD:
J. Kaleda reported. On October 25th, we held out annual Breakfast meeting and Health Concerns program on Arthritis. Election results for the year 2001:

President: Paula Bornstein (Lindenhurst Memorial Library)
Vice President/President elect: JoAnn Carhart (East Islip Public Library)
Secretary: Christine Ranieri (Smithtown-Commack Public Library)
Treasurer: Barbara Sussman (Port Jefferson Free Library)

The electronic resources committee will meet Wednesday November1 at 10am at the Patchogue Medford Library. The topic will be evaluating homepages.

CARE will present the January, 2001 Reference Workshop here at SCLS, where a representative from Suffolk County Civil Service will discuss civil service structure and procedures. Reader's Advisory will meet on January 25th at the Sachem Public Library to discuss Mainstream Literature. Long Island History Committee sponsored a program on Library commemorative celebrations on October 12th.

CATS:
D. Fabiszak reported. There is a new web page which was designed by Aurora Tiffany. The annual CATS meeting will be held on December 14 at the Patchogue Medford Library and the topic will be e-books. The newly elected board members for 2001 are:

President: Cynthia Guzzo
VicePresident/ President elect: Melanie Weiss
Secretary: Katherine Ryner
Treasurer: June Zinsley
Members at large: Joyce Bogin
   Angela Richards
   Aurora Tiffany
   Anne Reissig
   Kathy Irish
   Laura Hawrey
Past President: Dennis Fabiszak

YASD:
N. Brosnan reported. YASD luncheon went well. Youth Service's Young Adult AV showcase was informative. YASD cancelled their last meeting and is encouraging members to attend CLASC's November 15th meeting.

Archive:
S. Johnson reported. Mark Rothenberg gave a program on the history of the Patchogue Medford Library.

Constitution and Bylaws:
The new bylaws will be sent out in a mass mailing.

Continuing Education:
C. Gray e-mailed her report. The continuing education committee met at the Middle Country Library on Tuesday October 3. The final plans were made in conjunction with DASL for LIBRARY RAGE PART II: DEALING WITH DIFFICULT PATRONS workshop to be held on November 17th at the Farmingdale Public Library. The flyer was approved to be mailed out the week of October 22.

Fall Dinner:
D. Englehardt reported. 72 people have responded so far. There will be a display table for all of the divisions. Baskets will be raffled.

Intellectual Freedom:
M. Weiss reported. I would like to call attention to two useful and lively Internet resources for those who are interested in Intellectual Freedom issues. ""Library Juice"" http://libr.org/Juice/about.html is an e-zine/news digest that culls from approximately three dozen listservs that focus on social responsibility and Intellectual Freedom issues. (Examples: EQUILIBR, for ethnic interests in libraries, and PLGNET-L, the list for the Progressive Librarians Guild.)

Recent articles have included a piece by an Ethiopian librarian, information on new title additions to the Ethnic Newswatch database, and an article about libraries as community resources for environmental groups.

As an example of Intellectual Freedom issues that are covered by ""Library Juice,"" did you know that the WTO could jeopardize such public sector services as museums, schools, and public libraries? A recent digest article pointed out the ""it can be considered a trade barrier'' for a community to provide publically funded library service where an international company tries to offer a competing service on a for-profit basis."" Links within this article led to a piece in ""American Libraries,"" the ALA resolution that was passed at the last midwinter meeting, and ""The IFLA Position on WTO Treaty Negotiations.""

The same edition of ""Library Juice"" led me to a relatively recent website, filteReality http://www.crosswinds.net/~filtereality/ http://www.crosswinds.net/\u126 ~filtereality/, maintained by Brian Smith, a Chicago-based reference librarian with a background in law librarianship. ""filteReality is intended to be used as a tool by librarians, library board members, and others who seek reliable information about the constitutional implications of using Internet filtering software in public libraries.""

Smith takes an anti-filtering stance, but invites factual corrections, and is willing to change his position ""if the Supreme Court indicates that using a commercially-produced, secret blacklist is an acceptable method for denying access to a designated public forum."" The site features an extensive and balanced collection of links that provide background material on how filters work, arguments for and against filtering, legal analysis and commentary, and general news about libraries, the First Amendment, and the Internet.

LDA Award:
No report.

Legislative:
A. Schelp reported. The committee will meet in the future.

Long Island Library Conference:
No report.

ListServ:
No report.

Membership:
A. Lehner reported 611 active members.

Newsletter:
R. Capitanio reported the newsletter is about to be mailed.

Nominating:
New Board for 2001 are:

President: James Olney
Vice President/President elect: Rona Dressler
Secretary: Elyse Hayes
Treasurer: Marina Sullivan
Members at large: Edana Cichanowicz
   Angela Richards
   Della Bucher
   Marcia Jefferson

Professional Concerns:
E. Hayes reported the ELSA winner was notified and letters were sent to all nominated. Directors also received letters about their staff members who were nominated. The winner gets a $50 savings bond.

Public Awareness:
No report.

Scholarship:
S. Stevens reported the recipient was notified. The baskets will be displayed at the dinner to sell more raffles.

Statistical Survey:
No report.

Suffolk County Jails:
No report.

Webpage:
L. Tesoriero reported the web page is being updated.

CLASC:
L. Clark reported the fall meeting is November 28 on developmentally appropriate programs. There will be a trip to New York city to the Society of Illustrators on December 13 leaving from the Ronkonkoma Railroad at 8:00am. The cost is $6 per person. The new book forum will be on November 30 at Half Hollow Hills.

LILRC:
J. Newfeld reported. The 9th annual conference on e-information ethics was excellent and inspiring. On November 16th the LILRC annual meeting will be held at the Woodbury Country Club. December 4 is a program on linking libraries for the NYS virtual union catalog at the Farmingdale Public Library. DECEMBER 7 is a program on e-books at Farmingdale Public Library. December 13 is an ALA sponsored meeting on UCITA.

LVA:
No report.

NCLA:
No report.

PLDA:
D. Engelhardt reported that on November 17 there will be a meeting at Mastic Moriches Shirley Community Library on Labor management. The directors are also not pleased with Baker and Taylor since they are not getting quality from the company.

SCLS:
D. Engelhardt reports the Happauge Public Library has a website and has been approved for SCLS membership. On december 5 there will be a vote on the South Huntington bond issue. Rogers Memorial is due to open soon.

SLA:
No report.

SLS:
D. Miller reported there was a BOCES liaison meeting on October 24 at SCLC, where the Virtual Reference Collection was demonstrated. David Miller was appointed the lead librarian for the Three Village School Village.

There needs to be a meeting in November for next year's budget allocations. Division presidents and board members are asked to meet on November 13th at 9:30 am.

Motion to adjorn:
Motion to adjourn 12:20 by J. Olney

PLEASE e-mail your reports to kmolloy@suffolk.lib.ny.us or irishkel@yahoo.com if you cannot attend. Thank you.