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

IN ATTENDANCE: Susan Gottesman, Danielle Musorofiti-Miller, Jackie Narkiewicz, Suzanne Johnson, Deb Cunningham, Suzanne McGuire, Karen Baudouin, Janet O’Hare, Christ Kretz, Robert Cognato, Tom Cohn, Laura Panter, Suzanne McManus, Sue Sloan, Kevin McCoy, Jeri Cohen, Marjorie Fusco, Lisa Kropp, Virginia Antonucci-Gibbons, Rona Dressler, Mary Haines, Regina McEneaney

CALL TO ORDER:   Karen Baudouin called the meeting to order at 10:06 a.m. The February 2007 minutes were reviewed and corrected. Marjorie Fusco moved to accept the minutes as corrected.      Sue Gottesman seconded the motion.  None were opposed.

TREASURER’S REPORT:

Regina McEneaney proposed motion to accept treasurer’s report.  SueGottesman seconded the motion.

Bills to be paid in March were presented:

LILC:
Marsid Group $149 labels
D Antolini $178 door prizes
Longwood Public Library $92.43
Staples $215 supplies

Karen Baudouin $6.35 hospitality
SCLS  $290 ELSA printing
Harborfields PL $32.80 legislation photocopies
Patchogue Medford Library $151.94 newsletter postage
Siva Vaidhyanathan $500 IF speaker
Blockbuster $100 IF contest prize
Borders $200 IF contest prize
Regina McEneaney $220.36 postage and supplies
$500 Battle of the Books
$500 Fran Romer workshop
Jeri Cohen $12.58 newsletter supplies
SCLS $1525 ELSA and newsletter printing

Sue Gottesman moved to pay the bills. Deb Cunningham seconded the motion. None were opposed.

PRESIDENT’S REPORT:

Danielle Musorofiti-Miller thanked everyone for working so hard and making the trip to Albany such a success on March 13.  She was sorry she was unable to attend.

Danielle also asked that everyone check his/her email or call SCLS in the morning before board meetings if the weather is questionable. 

DIVISION REPORTS:

DASL:  Chris Kretz reported.  DASL held its latest meeting on Friday, March 9th at the LILRC offices.  Plans for upcoming activities inlcude a tour of the Farmingdale State College horticultural teaching gardens in conjunction with our June meeting.  For our annual luncheon in December, we have invited Su Garrison-Terry, archivist of Dowling College, to speak.  Su conducts ongoing research investigating the possible genealogical and real-world origins of ghosts in Long Island buildings and residences.

RASD:  Reported by Rob Cognato.  RASD met on March 6, 2007 at Deer Park Public Library

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

            The committee reported as follows: Electronic Resources will be having a roundtable meeting on April 11th at SCLS, with representatives from Westlaw & Newsbank. Health Concerns is in the process of getting speakers for the October meeting on Depression. Historian: the committee met on February 1st at Cold Spring Harbor Library. They did a presentation on making exhibits and discussed lending policies among libraries. They are hoping to go to Meadow Croft in Sayville later this year. Long Island Reads: Meet the author event is scheduled for Sunday, April 29th at Farmingdale library. Mr. McBride will be autographing books and giving a talk with Q & A afterwards. Media: will be meeting on Friday, March 30th at Longwood. Multicultural Services: next meeting is March 20th at SCLS. OARS reported they are meeting on March 14th at Sachem Library. Their program is set for the LILC. They will finish the work on their booklet for the conference at the March meeting. Programs: Suffolk and Nassau RASD divisions will go over the final details of the program in late March or early April. Readers Advisory is getting ready to post the annotations for Female Private Detectives. They are doing Romantic Suspense at their April 26th meeting at West Islip. The current issue of Ramblings is out and the deadline for the next issue is late August. Web page: A reminder to keep Rona up-to-date on committee’s meeting dates and any changes. Old Business: Robert proposed having Duncan Smith from Next Reads do a workshop. The Readers Advisory committee will look into this. LILC planning continues with our Pop Culture theme, along with planning, for our annual dinner in September.

Our next meeting is April 10, 2007 at the Station Branch of the Huntington Public Library.

The board has decided to offer its annual two-part computer training program this year on "hands-on digital photography," through Sharper Training Solutions of Babylon.  This follows up on our Long Island Library Conference program on digital photography in libraries by Steve Ingram (and by the way, our giveaway at LILC will be a handy computer keyboard brush with the CATS logo).

We also discussed our annual library tour in June and decided to try for a tour of three libraries -- two public and one academic -- in the Three Villages/Port Jefferson area: Emma S. Clark, Port Jefferson, and Stony Book University.

Our Cataloging Roundtable scheduled for February 27th had to be cancelled because of low subscription and dicey weather, but we have two others scheduled for June and October.

SSD:   Suzanne Johnson reported.  There will be a Roundtable on March 26 at Sachem Public Library.

YASD:  - Attendance at our monthly meetings has increased over 50% in February and March. 
- Fran Romer Conference is Thursday, April 12, 2007 and will be held at Northport-East Northport Library with keynote speaker Patrick Jones.
- LI Library Conference speaker is Jen Calonita and she will be doing a book signing after our morning program. 
- June meeting topic will be Teen Volunteer Opportunites.  Libraries to present will be Patchogue-Medford, Port Jefferson, and East Islip. 
- Harborfields has volunteered to host the September meeting and Hampton Bays has volunteered to host the November meeting.
- The Annual Luncheon scheduled for October will be held at Mama Lombardi's in Holbrook.  We are still working on confirming an author speaker.
- Working on redesigning the YASD webpage design.  Content has already been updated to include officer information, past events, upcoming events, meeting minutes and agendas, and bibliographies. 
- MySpace page is up and design will be completed by the end of March.
- The first issue of Teen Talk, the YASD newsletter, will be published in mid to late April 2007 in time for the LI Library Conference. 

COMMITTEE REPORTS:

ARCHIVES:  No report.

CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS:  No report.

CONTINUING EDUCATION/PROFESSIONAL CONCERNS:  No report.

ELSA:  No report

FALL DINNER:   No report.   

INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM:   Kevin McCoy reported.  He requested $200 for Borders gift cards and $100 for Blockbuster gift cards for essay winners.   

LDA AWARD:  Jackie Narkiewicz reported.  Friday, March 16th is the last day for nominations for the 2007 LDA Award. All entry packets must include the application, nominating statement of 500 words and three letters of support.

LEGISLATIVE:   Deb Cunningham reported.  Albany was a great success and the bus was full.  Sixteen people went up the night before and were able to see some legislators.  Those who took the bus up were only able to see aides because legislators were called into session that morning.  The state budget looks better for libraries this year.

LIST-SERV:   

LONG ISLAND LIBRARY CONFERENCE:   Sue Sloan reported.  Programs: The program schedule is finalized and will be available on the Conference website as of March 16. The conference brochures will be going to the printer next week and should be distributed soon.

Registration deadline is Wednesday, April 25th. Registration forms are currently available on the website.

Exhibits: As of March 14 we had 61 vendors with 68 tables. This is about 20 more than this time last year. There are also a number of new exhibitors.
The request for association tables is due March 16. As of March 14 we had still not heard from SCLA and RASD. There are 25 organizations requesting tables and we only have space for 20 tables. Several organizations will be asked to share a table.

Career Information Table-Please send Megan Sala from Deer Park Library any job listings you have before the Conference.

LONG RANGE PLANNING/PUBLIC RELATIONS:  No report.

MEMBERSHIP:   Regina McEneaney reported.  There are 725 members and 461 have renewed for 2007. Division Presidents please check that your board members have renewed their memberships.  Reminders to 2006 members are going out next week.

NEWSLETTER:  Jeri Cohen reported.  Deadline for the next newsletter is May 1.

NOMINATING:  Karen Baudouin reported.  Please let her know of anyone who would like to run this year.

SCHOLARSHIP:   Jackie Narkiewicz reported.  Solicitation of raffle prizes has been very successful!

STATISTICAL SURVEY:   Stephen Ingram reported.  Statistical survey is still being worked upon.

SUFFOLK COUNTY JAILS LIBRARY SERVICE:  Marjorie Fusco reported that there are women in both jails (Yaphank and Riverhead) and that their writing groups might need materials sent. 

LIAISONS:  No report. 

CLASC:  Lisa Kropp reported.  There will be a New Book Forum on Wednesday, March 21 at Sachem Public Library. The Annual Dinner meeting will be held Wednesday, April 18, at the Three Village Inn in Stony Brook.  Nina Crews, children’s book author and illustrator will be the speaker.  There is a Program Share tentatively scheduled at Central Islip Library on June 14. 

EASTERN SUFFOLK BOCES:  No report.

LILRC:  Virginia Antonucci-Gibbons reported that there will be a presentation of history and health sciences.  There is a possible roundtable discussion to be scheduled about email problems.  Please contact Herb Biblo if you are interested in attending.  There will be the 5th Symposium on Digitization on April 26 at South Huntington Public Library.

LVA:   No report.

NCLA:  Rona Dressler reported.  NCLA made a donation of $2000 to the Texas Library Association.  There were 2 Nassau buses going to Albany.
The Academic and Special Libraries conference is being held on May 16 with Chris kretz from Dowling as the featured speaker. He will discuss podcasting.
The Children’s Division is working on the SRC theme of Get a clue@your library. They are also looking intogoing to the Scholastic fall Preview in NYC in May.
Media will be hosting a workshop in June on Digitization in Libraries.
RASD will sponsor a workshop entitled: Reviving the Reference Interview on March 28 at NLS with a panel of speakers. Also on April 11, there will be a workshop on identifying potential dangerous patrons and what to do about them.
YA will have a follow up program on their Teen Tech Week on different gadgets.
Please send any changes to your library’s listing to Art Friedman asap.
Intellectual freedom will be holding their award presentation for the essay contest at Barnes&Noble  on April 26. There were 546 challenged items last year.
There are 680 paid up members as of March 9.
The Annual dinner will be held at Pompei Restaurant on January 9, 2008.
Ducks tickets will be sold for $12.50 for the August 25th game with fireworks.
NCLA is sponsoring a new logo contest with April 4 being the target date to choose a new one.

PLDA:  No report. 

SCLS:  No report. 

SLA:  No report.

MEMBERS-AT-LARGE:  Sue McManus reported that there is a possible bus trip that will include a house tour at Planting Fields Arboretum in Oyster Bay.  A maximum of 50 people may attend.  The Writers on the Vine series will begin this summer the last Sunday in June and go through August.  Price will be $12 per ticket.

OLD BUSINESS:  We think that Cynthia Guzzo has the old banner and that Angela Richards might have the new one.  We are still checking into it.

It was decided that the Long Island Library Conference giveaways will be smaller SCLA cubes.

Rob Cognato has proposed Duncan Smith to the Readers’ Advisory group in RASD as a possible speaker. 

NEW BUSINESS:   Someone had emailed about the possibility of Ducks’ tickets this year.  Secretary was told to email Sue McGuire about this.

It was proposed that we purchase James McBride books to be given away as part of the SCLA Annual Dinner raffle.  Deb Cunningham requested $80.00 for this purpose.

The meeting was adjourned at 11:09 a.m. Motion to adjourn meeting was presented by Sue Gottesman and seconded by Sue Sloan.

Respectfully submitted,

Jacqueline M. Narkiewicz