Corrected and Approved
SCLA Minutes
Friday, February 16, 2007
SCLS Blue Room

IN ATTENDANCE: Susan Gottesman, Danielle Musorofiti-Miller, Jackie Narkiewicz, Suzanne Johnson, Deb Cunningham, Suzanne McGuire, Stephen Ingram, Karen Baudouin, Janet O’Hare, Kris Minschke, Paula Bornstein, Rona Dressler, Diane Eidelman, Christ Kretz, Robert Cognato, Tom Cohn, Laura Panter, Suzanne McManus, Vincent Rodgers, Joanne Genovese, Herb Biblo, Mary Haines

CALL TO ORDER: Karen Baudouin called the meeting to order at 10:07 a.m. The January 2007 minutes were reviewed and corrected. Deb Cunningham moved to accept the minutes as corrected.  Janet O’Hare seconded the motion.  None were opposed.

TREASURER’S REPORT:

Sue Gottesman proposed motion to accept treasurer’s report.  Paula Bornstein seconded the motion.

Bills to be paid in February were presented:

$7.42 Karen Baudouin hospitality
$78.00 Deb Cunningham postage for Leg. Day
$400.00 Deb Cunningham toward food for bus trip
$40 NCLA dues
$34.79 Danielle Miller supplies

Susan Gottesman moved to pay the bills. Danielle Musorofiti-Miller seconded the motion. None were opposed.

PRESIDENT’S REPORT:

DIVISION REPORTS:

DASL:  DASL held its most recent meeting on February 9th at Dowling College.  We discussed plans for upcoming events in the fall of 2007.  Current ideas include a workshop on designing a library space without a large budget.  Possible speakers include Joyce Gotsch and Diane Holliday of Dowling College who recently completed research into students’ perceptions of their study space and what atmosphere is conducive to their research.

The April meeting as changed to April 27th at the Brentwood campus of LIU to avoid conflict with the Intellectual Freedom Committee’s April 13th conference.

RASD:  RASD met on February 6, 2007 at Central Islip Public Library.

Members present: R. Cognato, B. Adams, M. Sala-James, D. Eidelman, C. Miller,
R. Marut, G. Lutz, R. Dressler, M. Kelly and G. O’Connor.

The Committee reported as follows: CARE met on February 2 at East Islip
they are continuing their work on Retirement Planning Bibliography. Electronic Resources met at Comsewogue Library on January 25. Their next roundtable at SCLS is on April 11. Four different vendors are scheduled, to demonstrate their products. July 19 they are meeting at East Islip to plan their Fall program. Health Concerns reported that the chosen topic for this year’s bibliography is Depression. The program will be held at SCLS on October 24. Historian: The archives have been weeded, and minutes from individual committees will not be saved. It was decided that each committee will have to decide how long they want to keep their own minutes. Long Island Reads reported that tickets for the author event at Farmingdale Library will be available to patrons online. The First Book Club Summit was held on February 3 at Middle Country. The second is February 10 at Port Washington. How to run a book discussion is scheduled at SCLS on March 8. The committee meets again on March 1. Media met on January 19 at Huntington. They had a demonstration of the Overdrive video downloading service, followed by a discussion of “Playaway” pre-loaded MP3 players. Next meeting is at Longwood Public Library on March 30. Multicultural Services reported on their meeting at SCLS on January 23. Spanish language outreach workshops will be on March 22 at Hampton Bays and April 18 at Huntington Station Branch. Their next meeting is March 20 at SCLS. OARS will meet on February 7th at Patchogue to complete their Senior Volunteer Opportunities Pamphlet. They have arranged for Habitat for Humanity, the Seeing Eye Foundation, Literacy Volunteers and Retired & Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) as the panel for their LILC program. Programs: handouts are being worked on for our LILC Pop Culture program. Reader’s Advisory reported on their meeting January 25 at Cold Spring Harbor Library. Romantic Suspense was chosen for the April 26 meeting at West Islip. The annual dinner is in the planning stages for September. Our next meeting is March 6, 2007 at Deer Park.

CATS:  Reported by Tom Cohn.  The CATS board met on Friday, February 2nd.

Our program lineup is shaping up as follows.  On February 27th, next Tuesday, is the next meeting of our Cataloging Roundtable.  Subsequent meetings are scheduled for Tuesday, June 19th and Tuesday, October 23d.  We are planning to bring a representative from OCLC to do a program on WorldCat.org on Thursday, March 15th, either at Half Hollow Hills P.L. or Farmingdale P.L.  We've reserved two consecutive Fridays, June 8th and June 15th to offer training workshops through Sharper Training Solutions, of Babylon. The topic is to be determined, but we may follow up on our Long Island Library conference program on digital photography in libraries with a program on working with digital photos. 

In July we will do our annual tour.  We are looking for sites.  In the fall we are planning to do our technical services forum and our annual meeting.

The CATS board has welcomed two new members-at-large this year.  They are Dana Mottola of Sachem P.L., who will serve as publicity chair, and Wendy Reeve of Cutchogue-New Suffolk library.

SSD:

YASD: 

COMMITTEE REPORTS:

ARCHIVES: No Report.

CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS:  Danielle Musorofiti-Miller stated that she had emailed Mike Firestone that she was reappointing Sue Gottesman to the Constitution and By-Laws Committee.

CONTINUING EDUCATION/PROFESSIONAL CONCERNS:

ELSA:  Joanne Genovese reported that ELSA will be reaching out to academic libraries as well this year for award nominees.

FALL DINNER:  No Report.

INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM:  No Report.

LDA AWARD: Paula Bornstein reported.  2,500 copies of the brochure have been printed at SCLS.  Those addressed to Suffolk County public library staff were sent via SCLS mail delivery system.  The brochures with regular mailing addresses were included with those of NCLA and sent via U.S. Postal Service bulk mail delivery.  NCLA didn’t charge us, so there were no postage fees. 

LDA Award applications are to be submitted by mid-March.  So far, neither Ken Bellafiore of NCLA nor I have received any.

LEGISLATIVE: Deb Cunningham reported that the bus has been paid for Library Legislation Day on March 13 and 20 people have signed up so far.  She also wanted to thanks James Olney for helping out with the picture that was included in the announcement.

LIST-SERV:   No Report.

LONG ISLAND LIBRARY CONFERENCE:   Reported by Jackie Narkiewicz.  Susan Sloan sent an email that stated that they are still working on assigning rooms.  Arrangers will be notified of their time slot and location as soon as possible.

LONG RANGE PLANNING/PUBLIC RELATIONS: No report.  Sue Holden is no longer Chair of this committee.

MEMBERSHIP: Danielle Musorofiti-Miller reported.  As of February 12th, there are 716 active members.  301 are renewed for 2007.  Reminders will go out in March. 

Division Presidents please check the lists for 2007 officers to verify that they have renewed. 

NEWSLETTER: No Report.

NOMINATING:  Karen Baudouin reported. Working on getting the committee together.

SCHOLARSHIP:

STATISTICAL SURVEY: Continues to be worked on.

SUFFOLK COUNTY JAILS LIBRARY SERVICE: No Report.

WEB PAGE:  Stephen Ingram reported.  Updated forms are on the web page.  Please send any forms you want on the web page to Stephen Ingram.  Calendars are continually updated.

LIAISONS:

CLASC:  No Report.

EASTERN SUFFOLK BOCES: No report.

LILRC:  Herb Biblo reported.  Judy Neufeld retired after 32 years of service.  Min Liu has been approved as assistant director.  There is lots of enthusiasm about going to Albany on March 13th and many people are going up the night before.  Nassau libraries are inviting patrons to attend the Albany bus trip, which will include a trip to the New York State Museum.  A banner is being made to promote library use and will be brought to Albany.  Governor Spitzer put extra funding into this year’s budget for libraries.  Continuing Education schedule has been mailed out for upcoming programs through June.  Please check out LILRC.org, Long Island Memories.  Send in any special materials if you would like them put online.    

LVA: No Report.

NCLA: Reported by Jackie Narkiewicz.
   
Nassau County is now creating a new Poet Laureate Committee, similar to the one we have here in Suffolk County.
Clerical Services will have an Open House on February 20 with the installation of new officers.
Media Services will meet at NLS on February 27 for a Roundtable discussion on foreign language film collection development.
Programming Division has almost a year scheduled. On February 13, “How to Pitch a Story”, March 20, “Library Service to the Spanish Speaking Community”, in April, “How to Run an Author event at your library, June, “How to Run a bus trip at a Museum”.
Reference and Adult Services will hold a workshop on February14 on Consumer Health Resources. Young Adult held a Mock Printz Award on January 4.
Civil Service is looking at redesigning the Assistant Director and Director exams.
Art Friedman requested that all changes for the new LI Directory be sent to him, including new staff.
In 2006, NCLA hit their milestone of over a 1000 members. So far in 2007, they have 257 renewals.
NCLA is also asking all high schools for a spot at their Career Day programs.
To compile the statistics of the Nassau libraries, CDs have been sent to all directors for them to update the information.
NLS has had 32 construction grants approved.
Nassau BOCES is automating all the elementary schools.
NYLA is busy planning the next conference. Also the next candidates for President come out of public libraries. This will be the 2009 President.

PLDA:  Mary Haines reported.  PLDA is scheduling a golf outing on September 27th at the Tall Grass Country Club.  Proceeds will be going to New Yorker’s for Better Libraries.  Cost will be under $200.

SCLS:  Diane Eidelman reported.  SCLS is replacing air conditioning in the computer room.  Duncan Smith from Novelist came and spoke about Reader’s Advisory and was a terrific speaker.  Overdrive Project is in full swing and the website is being worked on. 40 libraries have signed up so far.  Suffolk Web webpage is being updated. 

SLA: No report.

OLD BUSINESS:  Does anyone know where SCLA banner is? 

NEW BUSINESS:   Possible incentives to give out to people who go to the LILC were discussed.  Post-it notes in a shape or the cube that says SCLA on the side were suggested.  Literature also needs to be handed out not just membership form and incentive.

Duncan Smith would be an excellent “headliner” at an RASD sponsored event perhaps in the fall of 2007.  A bigger venue would be best:  Farmingdale Public Library, the theater Suffolk County Community College Brentwood, South Huntington Public Library. 

There is a possibility of SCLA and CLASC cosponsoring programs for children’s speakers.

Respectfully submitted,

Jacqueline M. Narkiewicz