Corrected and Approved
SCLA Minutes
Friday, January 19, 2007
SCLS Blue Room

IN ATTENDANCE: Susan Gottesman, Danielle Musorofiti-Miller, June Cerveny, Jackie Narkiewicz, Suzanne Johnson, Deb Cunningham, Suzanne McGuire, Stephen Ingram, Virginia Antonucci-Gibbons, Karen Baudouin, Janet O’Hare, Kris Minschke, Paula Bornstein, Susan Sloan, Regina McEneaney, Jeri Cohen, Rona Dressler, Diane Eidelman, Christ Kretz, Robert Cognato, Tom Cohn, Celia Vollmer, Laura Panter, Angela Richards, Marjorie Fusco, Kristen Todd.

CALL TO ORDER: Karen Baudouin called the meeting to order at 10:02 a.m. The December 2006 budget minutes were reviewed and corrected. Kris Minschke moved to accept the minutes as corrected.  Sue Gottesman seconded the motion. None were opposed.

TREASURER’S REPORT:

Rona Dressler proposed motion to accept treasurer’s report.  Cynthia Guzzo seconded the motion.

Bills to be paid in January were presented.
$350.00  SCLS Printing ballots
$650.00 SCLS Printing Newsletter
$14.62 Laurene Tesoriero postage

$17.55 LILC/Longwood Public Library: postage
$1490.18 LILC/Janway giveaways
$2203.22 LILC/Janway bags
$15.99 LILC/ Sue Sloan, stamp
$88.39 Regina McEneaney postage
$7.42 Karen Baudoin hospitality

$1050 Hampton Jitney bus trip

Quarterly division payments:

DASL $234
CATS $228
RASD $322
SSD $214
YASD $231

Stephen Ingram moved to pay the bills. Susan Gottesman seconded the motion. None were opposed.

PRESIDENT’S REPORT: Danielle Musorofiti-Miller thanked everyone for attending and stated that she was looking forward to working with everyone on the board this year.

DIVISION REPORTS:

DASL:  Reported by Chris Kretz, President.

DASL held its annual luncheon on December 8th at Farmingdale State College.  Our speaker was Helen Harrison, director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in East Hampton.  Her talk covered the careers of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner as well as their lives on the East End of Long Island.  Ms. Harrison will be delivering a broader talk on her book Hampton Bohemia as a DASL-sponsored session at the Long Island Library Conference.

The ending balance of the DASL checking account as of the end of December was $1,169.04.

The next DASL meeting is February 9th at Dowling College at 10:00.

RASD:  Reported by Robert Cognato.
 
RASD met on January 9, 2007 at West Islip Public Library.

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

The committees reported as follows: Electronic Resources is meeting at Comsewogue Library on January 25, 2007. Another Roundtable is possible in the spring with a speaker from NYPL on weeding and marketing electronic resources. Health Concerns is meeting at 2:30 p.m. on February 1 at Patchogue. Historian reported the archives have recently been redone by Beth Haney. Long Island Reads book club summits are scheduled for February 3 at Middle Country and February 10 at Port Washington. Program Resource guide has been distributed. Readers guide completed. How to run a book discussion has been scheduled for Farmingdale Public Library on February 6 and at SCLS on March 8. Next meeting is March 1 at Farmingdale Public Library. Membership:  ongoing discussion about incentive giveaways. Multicultural Services will be meeting at SCLS on January 23 at 2pm. OARS will meet on January 10 at Harborfields. They are working on the LILC program to do with Senior Volunteer Opportunities and a Senior Volunteer booklet. Programs:  Ideas were discussed for putting together information on pop culture in Libraries to be distributed at the LILC: article from PW on book and movie tie-ins; contact the YA consultant; anime, graphic novels; Harborfields has a manga group; and there is a program on social networking at SCLS on January 30. Readers Advisory committee will meet on January 25 at Cold Spring Harbor to discuss Female private detectives. Rona posted the annotations for Hispanic literature. Fiction in a Long Island Setting is still on hold. Ramblings members were encouraged to submit articles. The deadline is February 1. Web Page Committee leaders were reminded to keep Rona up-to-date on their committee’s meeting dates and any changes. Our next meeting is February 6 2007 at Central Islip. Future meeting dates chosen:  March 6 at Deer Park and April 10 and June 5 at North Babylon.

CATS:  Reported by Tom Cohn.  The board met on January 4th to plan for the coming year.

We are planning three sessions of Cataloging Roundtable, which offers cataloging help in a small group format.  They are scheduled for Feb. 27, June 19, and Oct. 23.  This year, Mike Aloi will be leading the group.  It is driven by cataloging questions participants bring to the meeting.

The division will be sponsoring a program at the Long Island Library Conference entitled “Digital Photography in Your Library 101,” presented by Stephen Ingram.

As done in the past, in the summer we plan to offer a computer skills program from Sharper Training Solutions (possibly in Excel) and our library tour.

In the fall we will revive our Technical Services forum and hold our annual meeting.  One possible topic is Library 2.0, the current buzzword for the host of web-enabled library services e.g., virtual reference, downloadable books, online holds placing, renewing, fine paying, etc.  We want to have at least one other program either in the spring or fall. One possible topic: PDAs (handhelds) in libraries

We also set our monthly meeting schedule for the year.

SSD: Celia Vollmer presented.  Total available cash as of 11/06 $18082.35

SCLA meeting schedule for 2007 is attached to the minutes.

LILC workshop will be Natural Linkage Between Public Libraries and the One-Stop Employment Center.  Featuring the partnership between the Brentwood Public Library and the Suffolk County Department of Labor.

Celia Ann Vollmer will be attending Legislation Day in Albany on March 13, 2007 representing SSD.  Celia will help distribute refreshments on the bus during the trip.

We currently have 130 members.

The Annual Roundtable Meeting will be on Tuesday, March 27, 2007. The Roundtable will take place at Sachem Library at 9:30am.

2007 New Officers
President- Laura Panter, Middle Country Public Library
Vice-President- Candice Reeder, Northport- East Northport Public Library
Secretary- Michelle Vagner, Northport- East Northport Public Library
Treasurer- Cheryl Conenello, Sachem Public Library

Schedule & Topics of Monthly Meetings
Thursday, February 8, 2007- Teen Tech Week & Open Forum 9:30-11:00am
Thursday, February 15, 2007- Joint Coordinated Meeting with Nassau Young
Adult Services Division on Teen Tech Week
Thursday, March 8, 2007- Teen Summer Reading Club Ideas 9:30-11:00am
Thursday, April 12, 2007- Third Annual Fran Romer Memorial Teen Services
Workshop- What Teens Want: What’s Hot & What’s Not Reader’s Advisory for Teens 9:30am-3:00pm
Thursday, May 3, 2007- Long Island Library Conference- Reaching the Teen
Market with author Jen Calonita
Thursday, June 14, 2007- Teen Volunteer Opportunities 9:30am-11:00am
Thursday, September, 20, 2007- Teen Summer Reading Club Wrap Up, Online
Reading Clubs, and Summer Programming Stories 9:30am-11:00am
Thursday, October 11, 2007- YASD Annual Luncheon & YASD officer considerations
Thursday, November 8, 2007- Teen Behavior 9:30-11:00am
Thursday, December 13, 2007- Best of 2007 9:30-11:00am

YASD Webpage is up and running with all our events listed along with literature on the Mock Printz Workshop which took place on January 4, 2007

Tracy Van Dyne at Connetquot Public Library will be taking over the publishing of our YASD newsletter Route 66.  We will be revamping the newsletter and changing the name to a more teen related title. 

We are looking at the possibility of organizing a field trip to the Donnell Library at New York Public Library for one morning in May or June.  We are working on coordinating dates with NYPL librarians at this time.  

COMMITTEE REPORTS:

ARCHIVES: Janet O’Hare reported.

CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS: No Report. 

CONTINUING EDUCATION/PROFESSIONAL CONCERNS.

ELSA:  No report.

FALL DINNER:  Cynthia Guzzo reported.  Cynthia asked for ideas for places to have the Fall Dinner this year.  Suggestions included Painters and the Bellport Country Club.

INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM:  No report.

LDA AWARD: Paula Bornstein reported.        Rona Dressler has revised the LDA Award “Call for Nominations” brochure to include information current for 2007 and to allow for bulk mailing of the brochure to SCLA and NCLA members who request home delivery.  Our home-delivered brochures are to be mailed with those of NCLA members.  The brochures with library addresses will be distributed via the SCLS delivery trucks.  Paula Bornstein is going to order 2500 copies of the brochure from the SCLS print shop.  Hopefully, they will be printed and mailed before the second week in February.  She will need mailing labels for the full membership.  Ken Bellafiore is the NCLA LDA Award chairperson this year.  It was his idea to revamp the brochure design, which Rona Dressler generously agreed to. 
 
LEGISLATIVE: Deb Cunningham reported and reminded people about going up to Albany on March 13 for Library Legislation Day.

LIST-SERV:   Regina McEneaney reported that the list-serv is still having a problem with blocks on AOL email addresses. 

LONG ISLAND LIBRARY CONFERENCE: Sue Sloan reported. We have received payment from 28 vendors for 33 tables.  There are currently 15 confirmed programs for the Conference.  Anyone who was not accepted has received an email telling them so.   Susan Isaacs has asked that her honorarium be donated to the Friends of the Port Washington Library.  The registration form is available on the LILC website.

LONG RANGE PLANNING/PUBLIC RELATIONS: No report.

MEMBERSHIP: Regina McEneaney reported.  There are 703 actives members going into 2007.  253 members have joined or renewed for 2007.  Friendly reminders to those who were members from 2003-2005, but had not renewed for 2006 were sent inviting these people to rejoin for 2007 and were sent out the first week in January.

NEWSLETTER: Jeri Cohen reported. The deadline for the next issue is February 1st.

NOMINATING:   Karen Baudouin is looking for volunteers to help with the committee and would like to start the process earlier this year. 

SCHOLARSHIP: All 2006 Scholarship Committee members agreed to continue to volunteer their services for 2007.  Flyers describing both the SCLA Scholarship for library students and the Continuing Education Award for Library Support Staff will be printed and sent out on Tuesday 1/23/07.  Stephen Ingram, web page, will be asked to update the SCLA website with the names of the 2006 recipients.
SCLA Scholarship -                    Beth Chase Haney
Continuing Ed for Support Staff       Teri Hatred

STATISTICAL SURVEY:

SUFFOLK COUNTY JAILS LIBRARY SERVICE: Marjorie Fusco reported.  They would like nonviolent paperbacks sent to their attention through the bag for inmates.

WEB PAGE:  Stephen Ingram reported.  The webpage is completely updated.  Kris Minschke suggested that the webpage include one calendar that has all SCLA events on it instead of separate calendars for each group.

LIAISONS:

CLASC: Kristen Todd reported.  CLASC held a meeting on January 18.  There will be a New Book Forum in March.  The CLASC Annual Dinner and General Membership Meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 at the Three Village Inn.  Nina Crews will be the speaker.  Lisa Desimini will be the CLASC program presenter at the Long Island Library Conference.

EASTERN SUFFOLK BOCES: No report.

LILRC:  Virginia Antonucci-Gibbons reported.  LILRC is putting out a booklet that will list the next six months of workshops that will be offered.

LVA: No Report.

NCLA: Rona Dressler reported.  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: No report.

SCLS:  Diane Eidelman reported.  SCLS is in the process of totally redesigning Suffolk Web.

SLA: No report.

OLD BUSINESS:

Letter sent from Kevin Verbesey of SCLS offering their help in putting the statistical survey into PDF format and putting it online to make it accessible to everyone.  Stephen Ingram will discuss the issue further with Renee Capitanio. 

NEW BUSINESS:

Danielle Musorofiti-Miller received an order for advertising space that she gave to Jeri Cohen for the newsletter.

Deb Cunningham requested $200.00 for refreshments for Long Island Reads.  Regina McEneaney  made a motion to approve this request and Cynthia Guzzo seconded it.  James McBride will be speaking and signing books at the Farmingdale Public Library on
April 29, 2007.

People should contact Suzanne Johnson if they need the tax exempt number for Office Max and contact Regina McEneaney for the Staples tax exempt number to purchase paper or stationery.

Danielle Musorofiti-Miller will have folders for all board members at the next meeting and they will contain a list of 2007 meeting dates, copy of bylaws and constitution, reimbursement forms and a list of current board members.

Janet O’Hare gave information about dental insurance that is currently being offered for NCLA members.  The insurance is offered by United Concordia and must be obtained through the employee’s library.  The employee must be working twenty hours per week to be eligible and the coverage maxes out at $1500 per year.  Orthodontia work is not covered. 

The meeting was adjourned at 11:25 a.m.  Motion to adjourn meeting was presented by Deb Cunningham and seconded by Rona Dressler.

Respectfully submitted,

Jacqueline M. Narkiewicz