LIS Program Alumni Group Board Meeting
Sunday, September 10, 2000
LIS Lobby
Present: Cora Nishimura, President
Jan Nakayama, Treasurer
Gwen Sinclair, Secretary
Stewart Chun, Events Chair
Jackie Reed, Member-at-Large
Tami Rosado
Excused: Joseph Yue, Membership Co-Chair
Jodie Kakazu Mattos, Awards/Scholarship Chair
Wanda Aki, Past President
Lei Wakayama, LIS Liaison
1) The meeting was convened at 12:10 p.m.
2) Reports
a) Treasurer
Discussion: Florence distributed the Treasurer’s Report via e-mail. We made money off of the reunion because one room was not used due to the laptop not working in it. Florence made many suggestions on handling the reunion next year.
Action: Cora will send a thank-you letter to Dr. Jacsó.
b) Awards
Discussion: We have not been able to give one person her award because UH Foundation will not directly pay a UH faculty member. A workaround is to pay her through the department and have the department ask for reimbursement. We need to investigate other ways of getting the award money to the recipient. This is going to be a problem in the future, since we cannot exclude UH faculty members from consideration for awards. We need advice on how to deal with the Foundation.
Action: Cora will ask Lei Wakayama and Paula Mochida for advice on dealing with the UH Foundation.
c) Events
Discussion: The graduation dinner is in December. We need to find out who is organizing the San Francisco reunion at ALA and get the information settled early so that it can be included in conference publications.
Action: Stewart will pursue information for the graduate packets in October.
d) Continuing Education
Discussion: We need to find a Continuing Education Chair. Tami may be able to get a tape of a satellite feed on effective electronic publishing.
e) Newsletter
Discussion: Gwen and Joely May are working on the newsletter. Gwen has a lot of information about graduates, but needs to know their years of graduation.
Action: Cora will send Gwen the rosters she has and the surveys.
Old Business
a) Bylaws
Discussion: Tabled.
b) Officers
Discussion: Jan Nakayama volunteered to be treasurer. We still need a vice president, membership co-chair, and continuing education chair.
Action: Gwen will write an article for the newsletter soliciting volunteers.
The meeting was adjourned at 1:20 p.m.
Next Meeting: Sunday, October 15, 2000, 12:00 p.m. in the LIS lobby.
Submitted by Gwen Sinclair, Secretary