Minutes

Corrected and Approved
SCLA Minutes
Friday, April 13, 2007
SCLS Blue Room

IN ATTENDANCE:
Susan Gottesman, Danielle Musorofiti-Miller, Jackie Narkiewicz, Suzanne Johnson, Deb Cunningham, Stephen Ingram, Karen Baudouin, Janet O'Hare, Paula Bornstein, Rona Dressler, Chris Kretz, Robert Cognato, Laura Panter, Suzanne McManus, Vincent Rodgers, Mary Haines, Min Liu, Kevin Verbesey, Regina McEneaney, Jeri Cohen, Angela Richards, Marjorie Fusco, Stephen Ingram, Vincent Rodgers

CALL TO ORDER:
Karen Baudouin called the meeting to order at 10:05 a.m. The March 2007 minutes were reviewed and corrected. Danielle Musorofiti-Miller moved to accept the minutes as corrected. Rona Dressler seconded the motion. None were opposed.

TREASURER'S REPORT:
Susan Gottesman proposed a motion to accept treasurer's report. Paula Bornstein seconded the motion. Bills to be paid in April were presented:

DASL	144.00
CATS	218.50
RASD	543.00
SSD	173.50
YASD	215.00
Baldessare and Coster	$1800
S. Johnson	7.80
D Cunningham	132.39
K.Baudouin	8.39
Regina McEneaney	39.00
Kevin McCoy	571.30
NYS Dept of Law	$50.00
Writers on the Vine	$600.00
DASL	275.00
SSD	275.00
YASD	275.00
CATS	300.00
RASD	$300
DASL	$25
SSD	$66.50
LILC: Marsid Printing	$149.00

Susan Gottesman moved to pay the bills. Paula Bornstein seconded the motion. None were opposed.

Suzanne Johnson presented the 2006 Federal Tax Return and a financial report from Baldessari & Coster to the board for approval. Regina McEneaney made a motion to accept the 2006 Federal Tax Return and a financial report from Baldessari & Coster and Vincent Rodgers seconded the motion.

Suzanne also stated that quarterly checks went out to the divisions.

PRESIDENT'S REPORT:
Danielle Musorofiti-Miller shared that SCLA had received two thank you letters. One from Barbara Moon of SCLS thanking SCLA for their $500 contribution to Battle of the Books and one from the Sidney Memorial Public Library thanking SCLA for a donation after the library was affected by a terrible flood.

DIVISION REPORTS:
DASL: Chris Kretz reported.

RASD: Robert Cognato reported.  RASD met on April 10, 2007 at Huntington Station Branch Library. Members present: R. Cognato, B. Adams, K. Baudouin, R. Marut, R. Dressler, D. Cunningham, D. Eidelman, G. Lutz, E. O'Hare, M. Kelly, and G. O'Connor.

The committee's reported as follows: Care will meet at Harborfields on April 12, they plan on proofreading the Retirement Planning bibliography. Electronic Resources reported that 25 people signed up for their meeting on April 11th at SCLS. Reps from Newsbank and Westlaw will be present. Health Concerns: Colleen Monroe will be the speaker for the depression workshop. She is the Director for Mental Health services. Letters have been sent to Stony Brook for a second speaker. Long Island Reads: Meet the Author will be held at Farmingdale Library on April 29th. Suffolk has 25 tickets left to sell. Astoria bank has given us $160 and SCLS added $200 for refreshments. Media had a March 30th meeting at Longwood Library. A representative from Recorded Books demonstrated downloadable video. Their next meeting will be September 14th at Port Jefferson. Multicultural Services: Met on March 20th at SCLS they discussed conversational classes for ESL speakers. OARS is finalizing their library conference program. They are meeting at Mastics library on April 11th. Programs: The final details are being worked out for our Program Pop Goes the Library: Connecting with your community using popular culture. Readers Advisory is meeting on April 26th at West Islip covering Romantic Suspense. Ramblings would like to get the next issue published before our annual meeting in October. The deadline for articles is the end of August. Web Page: Reminders to keep Rona up to date on committee's meeting dates and any changes.

Our next meeting is June 5, 2007 at North Babylon.

CATS: Reported by Min Liu. Over sixty people attended the WorldCat presentation at the Half Hollow Hills Library.

SSD: Reported by Vincent Rodgers. SSD held its annual roundtable at the Sachem Public Library and it was very successful. Thank you to the Sachem Public Library for hosting the event.

YASD: Laura Panter reported. We had 73 librarians attend the Fran Romer Memorial Teen Services Workshop on Reader's Advisory to Teens hosted at the Northport-East Northport Public Library. Patrick Jones was the key note speaker who did a presentation of advising reluctant readers.  His powerpoint presentation will be available on the YASD webpage. We also had two teen librarians from the New York Public Library who discussed "What to Read if you Liked..."  They presented booktalks on the hottest new teen novels and suggested read-a-like books to recommend to teens. The YASD MySpace page is up and running. We are currently working on preparing our table and program for the Long Island 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: No report.

LDA AWARD: Paula Bornstein reported. The recipient for the 2007 LDA Award has been selected by the NCLA and SCLA LDA Award committees. NCLA committee members are Thomas Bazzicalupo, Vivian Kowalewski, and Christine Kulakis. SCLA committee members are Eileen Feynmann, Patricia Leary, and Pamela Wells.

The person who nominated our winner is being contacted. A plaque is to be ordered and it will be presented at the Long Island Library Conference by Art Friedman of Nassau County Community College.

Generally, there is a $100 reimbursement for the plaque from Andy Ippolito of LDA Publishers. Last year, the bill ran a little over this amount and NCLA picked up the remainder. This year we will have to do the same.

LEGISLATIVE: Deb Cunningham reported. We are still keeping an eye on the state budget. The next meeting of the Legislative Committee will be Monday, April 16, 10:00 a.m. at Farmingdale Public Library.

LIST-SERV: No report.

LONG ISLAND LIBRARY CONFERENCE: Sue Sloan reported. The conference will be held on Thursday, May 3. Registration forms have been distributed and more information is on the website http://www.suffolk.lib.ny.us/lilc/ Registrations are due no later than Wednesday, April 25th.

Set-up for Associations begins on Wednesday, May 2 from 9am-6pm and again on Thursday, May 3 at 6:30am. Please send in your program expense reimbursement forms as soon as possible after the conference. The forms will be available on the website. Raffle tickets are also available on the website under "exhibits."

As of Wednesday, April 11 we have 79 vendors with 86 tables.

Speakers' lunches and registrations are free, but the issue will be addressed again next year since several of the sessions are featuring 4 or more speakers.

There will be a box lunch. The committee tasted it and offered suggestions for improvement in the appearance. The reason there is a box lunch is that Crest Hollow is smaller than Huntington Townhouse. At Huntington Townhouse we were able to have 18 programs plus a keynote speaker. At Crest Hollow we are having 15 sessions plus a keynote speaker. If we offered a sit down lunch we would have to eliminate 3 programs bringing it down to 12 programs. The reason we are having the conference at Crest Hollow is because it is the only facility on Long Island that is big enough for the space the conference requires. We would like to request SCLA members assistance in sharing this information to complaining attendees.

I am looking forward to seeing you all at the Long Island Library Conference!

LONG RANGE PLANNING/PUBLIC RELATIONS: No report.

MEMBERSHIP: Regina McEneaney reported that 765 members and 537 members renewed. Reminders have been sent out to members from 2006 that have not renewed yet. They will be dropped in May 2007. Approximately 30 people from 2003-2004 renewed after being sent reminders.

NEWSLETTER: Jeri Cohen reported. The next newsletter will cover June-July-August. Please submit any general information you have by May 1st and any information about the Long Island Library Conference no later than Monday, May 7.

NOMINATING: No report.

SCHOLARSHIP: Angela Richards reported. On March 27th I had the opportunity to present information about SCLA's Continuing Education Award for Library Support Staff at a very well attended SSD Roundtable. Because there seems to be confusion between this award and the ELSA award, I described the ways in which past recipients have used the award to improve their effectiveness at their libraries.

On Friday, April 20th I will seize the opportunity to speak before the Heads of Circulation as another venue for publicizing this award. Hopefully, these efforts will generate requests for applications.

Copy for the scholarship raffle ticket is ready to go to the printer today. According to Regina, we have 765 members and each receives two booklets. Additional raffle booklets generate hundreds of dollars in donations at the annual dinner. Therefore, I propose printing 1500 booklets without covers to reduce the cost of printing.

I will print flyers for both the Scholarship and Continuing Education Award for the SCLA table at the Long Island Library Conference.

STATISTICAL SURVEY: Stephen Ingram reported. Statistical survey is nearing completion. Will have surveys out to directors shortly.

SUFFOLK COUNTY JAILS LIBRARY SERVICE: No report.

WEB PAGE: Stephen Ingram reported. Updated web page to display library conference and general maintenance. Began work modifying and updating YASD.

LIAISONS:
CLASC: Jackie Narkiewicz reported. Just a reminder that the Annual CLASC Dinner is next Wednesday, April 18 at the Three Village Inn. Nina Crews will be the guest speaker.

Eastern Suffolk BOCES: No report.

LILRC: Min Liu reported.

LVA: No report.

NCLA: Rona Dressler reported.

PLDA: Mary Haines reported. PLDA meeting was last week and the directors were told that the Librarian I list would "be out any day." The golf outing is scheduled for September 27 at the Tall Grass Country Club.

SCLS: Kevin Verbesey reported. Thanks to SCLA for its help with the budget increase for libraries this year. The turnout for the legislative bus trip was terrific!

SLA: James Olney reported. Please join SLA's Long Island Chapter for our Annual Dinner. Come meet old and new friends for a fun night of dining and networking!
WHEN: Tuesday June 19, 2007; 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
WHERE: Bertucci's, 881 Walt Whitman Rd. Melville, NY 11747. For directions, see http://www.bertuccis.com/locations/41
COST: $25 for SLA/SCLA members, $20 for students. Includes appetizers, dinner (choice of pastas), dessert and soft drinks.
RSVP: by June 15th to Laura Mann, Newsday Library, 631-843-4101 or laura.mann@newsday.com
Please make check payable to SLA Long Island. You may bring your check with you on Tuesday.
We look forward to seeing you!

MEMBERS-AT-LARGE:
Susan McManus spoke about the Writers on the Vine series that will be offered again this summer. The first Sunday will be June 24 and Anthony Swofford, author of Jarhead. Tickets cost $10 each and SCLA is going to purchase $600. Motion to approve this purchase was presented by Susan Gottesman and seconded by Deb Cunningham. It was proposed that two tickets will go to RASD. Angela Richards proposed the motion and Rona Dressler seconded it.

OLD BUSINESS:
One thousand cubes have been ordered for the Long Island Library Conference! The typeface color has been changed from blue to teal this year. There is no Ducks game trip planned for this summer because there was some difficulty in selling the tickets we had last summer. Deb Cunningham will lay out the money for the purchase of James McBride's books the day of the event.

NEW BUSINESS:
Danielle Musorofiti-Miller received a letter from Queens College asking SCLA to send a representative to their career day on May 4th. Chris Kretz, Susan Gottesman, Sue McManus, and Angela Richards volunteered to go. The Legislative Breakfast is Friday, September 28 this year.

The meeting was adjourned at 11:35 a.m. Motion to adjourn meeting was presented by Stephen Ingram and seconded by Susan Sloan.

Respectfully submitted,

Jacqueline M. Narkiewicz