Minutes

Corrected and Approved
SCLA Minutes
Friday, August 17, 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, Robert Cognato, Tom Cohn, Laura Panter, Vincent Rodgers, Michael Aloi, Regina McEneaney, Jeri Cohen, Angela Richards, Marjorie Fusco, Min Liu

CALL TO ORDER:
Karen Baudouin called the meeting to order at 10:07 a.m. The June 2007 minutes were reviewed and corrected. Marjorie Fusco moved to accept the minutes as corrected. Regina McEneaney seconded the motion. None were opposed.

TREASURER'S REPORT:
Janet O'Hare proposed a motion to accept treasurer's report. Vincent Rodgers seconded the motion. Bills to be paid in July and August 2007 were presented:

Baker and Taylor Susan Isaacs books/LILC	$1204.00
Tom Cohn CATS reimburse LILC	$104
Robert Freeman LILRC reimburse/LILC	$215.40
RASD reimburse LILC	$300
CLASC REIMBURSE LILC	$250
BETA MU reimburse	$250
Regina McEneaney, supplies	$58.19
Deb Cunningham, Legislation	$82.00
Harborfields, Legislation	$38.50
SCLS, printing directory	$1457
LILRC, Archives Conference	$500
CATS, Annual meeting	$500
Laurene Tesoriero postage	$14.62
NCLA LILC	$2,030
Quarterly Division payments:
DASL	$359.00
CATS	$404.00
RASD	$508.00
SSD	$395.00
YASD	$377.00

Deb Cunningham moved to pay the bills. Danielle Musorofiti-Miller seconded the motion. None were opposed.

PRESIDENT'S REPORT:
We received several pieces of mail from NCLA promoting their upcoming fall events and their newsletter.

Virginia Antonucci from LILRC asked SCLA for $500 to co-sponsor a program on October 26 called "Dying to Know- Cemeteries as Archives." Danielle Musorofiti-Miller proposed a motion to approved giving this money to LILRC and Susan Gottesman seconded it.

The Legislative Breakfasts will be in September. Nassau County's breakfast will be September 7 at the East Meadow Public Library and Suffolk County's breakfast will be September 28 at Suffolk County Community College in Selden.

DIVISION REPORTS:
DASL: No report.

RASD: Reported by Robert Cognato. Future RASD Events:

• Annual dinner is scheduled for Thursday, September 27th 6-9pm at the Three Village Inn in Stony Brook. Guest Speaker will be Margaret George, author of Helen of Troy and the Memoirs of Cleopatra.
• Annual breakfast and RASD meeting will be held on Wednesday, October 24th 9am at SCLS. Health Concerns committee workshop on depression will follow. Speakers will be Colleen Merlo, Executive director of the Mental Health Association in Suffolk County and Alison Byers from the Family Counseling Service in Westhampton Beach.
• Friday, September 14th: coffee at 9:30, The Media Committee will be meeting at Port Jefferson Library. The topic for discussion will be "Downloadable Audio and Video."
• Wednesday, September 26th: Multicultural Services will be having a Reference Workshop at SCLS serving coffee at 9:30 followed by the workshop at 10. The topic will be "How to Run a Conversation Group in Your Library."
• Thursday, September 27th: The Readers Advisory will be discussing "People and Their Pets" at Northport Library.
• Thursday, October 4th: 9:30 coffee, The Long Island History Committee will be meeting at Babylon Public Library. Please contact Cynthia Sciacca or Cathy Ball if you have a particular topic of interest you would like to discuss.
• Tuesday, October 9th: Coffee at 9:30, Electronic Resources will meet at Huntington Library with their fall program "Marketing Electronic Resources: Get Them to Use What They Pay For." The guest speaker will be Professor Kay Ann Cassell from Rutgers University.

Our Next meeting is Tuesday, September 11, 2007 at Harborfields Public Library.

CATS: Reported by Tom Cohn. Looking ahead to the Fall, the CATS division has three programs lined up. On September 26th we will be hosting our Fourth Annual Technical Services Open Forum at Sachem Public Library. This program affords an opportunity for ALL personnel involved in the technical service enterprise to come together to discuss a range of issues: acquisitions, cataloging, processing, labeling, and security. Mike Aloi of Dowling College will be the moderator, and we will have a panel of four representing both academic and public libraries. This year the forum will have a special focus on catalog maintenance issues, i.e., all the things you need to do to keep your database shipshape after an item has been cataloged. Attendees will also be asked to bring a new product to share with the group. The last time we hosted this program it drew about 60 people.

On October 23 our next Cataloging Roundtable takes place. We hold this program about three times a year. It is a small-group, "seminar"-style program.

We are planning a very special event for our annual meeting on December 4th. We have invited Helen Blowers, Technology Director of the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County in North Carolina, to be our featured speaker. Her special accomplishments have been the development of award-winning children's service websites and the development of Learning 2.0, a self-paced instructional program that empowers library staff to learn about blogging, RSS, digital photography, social networking, wikis, podcasts, and dare I say, and more! Helen was named a 2007 Mover & Shaker by Library Journal, co-authored the book Weaving a Library Web: A Guide to Developing Children's Websites, and maintains her own blog (of course!) entitled LibraryBytes. Though this will be our annual meeting, we want to open it up to everyone in the library community in Suffolk County. Helene's talk is sure to be of benefit to library staff members working in adult reference services, children's and young adult services, and technical, electronic, and computer services.

Tom Cohn requested $500 for an honorarium and Michael Aloi seconded it.

SSD:Vincent Rodgers reported. Celia Vollmer has been appointed nominating chair for SSD. Their annual luncheon is tentatively scheduled at SCLS on October 16.

YASD: Laura Panter reported. YASD had a program about volunteer opportunities for teenagers in June and all of the ideas are posted on the YASD website. The next meeting will be on Thursday, September 20 at Harborfields and it will include a Summer Reading wrap up and the annual luncheon will be held at Mama Lombardi's on October 11.

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. Andy Ippolito of LDA Publishers sent a $100 check for the plaque.

LEGISLATIVE: Deb Cunningham reported. Suffolk County Legislative Breakfast will be held at Suffolk County Community College, Ammerman Building, Montauk Point Room on September 28.

LIST-SERV: No report.

LONG ISLAND LIBRARY CONFERENCE: Jackie Narkiewicz reported. The Long Island Library Conference will be held on Thursday, May 8, 2008 at the Crest Hollow ountry Club. The Conference Committee is currently working on getting a keynote speaker. If you have any suggestions or preferably contacts, please email me at sloan@suffolk.lib.ny.us. Please have your divisions and committees begin to think about their program sessions. As soon as a theme for the conference is confirmed an email will be sent out to the listserv.

LONG RANGE PLANNING/PUBLIC RELATIONS: No report.

MEMBERSHIP: Regina McEneaney reported. There are 657 members, 43 honorary members, and four people renewed this month.

NEWSLETTER: Jeri Cohen reported. The September/October/November newsletter is at the printer.

NOMINATING: Karen Baudouin reported. She is continuing to work diligently to get a full slate for the upcoming election.

SCHOLARSHIP: Angela Richards reported. The deadline for the MLS scholarship is September 1 and there are two applicants. There have been two requests for SSD applications and that deadline is October 1.

STATISTICAL SURVEY: Stephen Ingram reported. There have been 40 responses so far.

SUFFOLK COUNTY JAILS LIBRARY SERVICE: Marjorie Fusco reported. Please keep the books coming.

WEB PAGE: Stephen Ingram reported.

LIAISONS:
CLASC: No report.

Eastern Suffolk BOCES: No report.

LILRC: Min Liu reported. There are many upcoming events scheduled for LILRC. Please check their website for more details.

LVA: No report.

NCLA: Flyers for upcoming events and the latest newsletter were passed around.

PLDA: Suzanne Johnson reported. PLDA used SCLA's mailing list for their 1st annual golf outing.

SCLS: No report.

SLA:James Olney reported. YOU ARE INVITED! Please join the Long Island Chapter of SLA in welcoming SLA's Chief Executive Officer, Janice R. Lachance, Esq., for a dinner meeting at Hofstra University on October 11, 2007.
WHAT: Dinner Meeting with the CEO of SLA, Janice R. Lachance, Esq.
WHEN: Thursday, October 11, 2007, from 6pm to 9pm
WHERE: Hofstra University, Student Center, Plaza West Room 127 (located near the Commerce Bank branch, North Campus). For directions to Hofstra and to link to an interactive map of the campus, see: http://www.hofstra.edu/About/InfoCenter/info_dirmaps.html
COST: $25 for members (SLA & SCLA); $20 students, retired, or unemployed members. Please make check out to SLA-Long Island.
Questions and RSVP: Carol Simon, Hofstra University, Axinn Library, 123 Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549-1230 Email: Carol.R.Simon@hofstra.edu
(If emailing, please put SLA-LI in the subject line.) To read Ms. Lachance's biography, please see:
http://www.sla.org/content/SLA/governance/bodsection/ceocorner/edbio.cfm
WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!

MEMBERS-AT-LARGE:
Jackie Narkiewicz reported. Suzanne McManus sent an email: I do want to report the dismal results of the Writers on the Vine fundraiser. We only sold thirty tickets (and gave two to RASD for their LI Lib Conf. basket). So we lost $300 on this venture. Only 10 members purchased tickets.

There are a few obvious reasons for the failure, 1) the tickets were for specific dates & 2) I needed to email members more often. Still, I think maybe people were just too busy. In any case I'll send the remaining checks to Suzanne in the bag, or get them to Susan Gottesman to bring to the meeting.

OLD BUSINESS:
The new SCLA banner has been ordered at a cost of $248.55 plus shipping and plus an artwork charge. Every division should order a banner and ask for reimbursement from Suzanne Johnson. The banner should be here before the Legislative Breakfast. Stephen Ingram can help if anyone needs assistance with a logo for their banner.

NEW BUSINESS:
Suzanne Johnson said that a movie called "Hollywood Librarian" debuted at ALA in June and suggested that we have an SCLA sponsored event somewhere on Long Island to promote this movie.

Angela Richards stated that she had gone to the Writers on the Vine this past Sunday and thought it was magnificent. There was some discussion about how we can promote and improve this program next summer. Perhaps an SCLA sponsored event would sell more tickets.

The meeting was adjourned at 11:08 a.m. Motion to adjourn meeting was presented by Janet O'Hare and seconded by Susan Gottesman.

The next meeting will be Friday, September 21, 2007, at 9:30 a.m. at SCLS.

Respectfully submitted,

Jacqueline M. Narkiewicz