LIS Alumni Group Board
Minutes
October 15, 2000
Present: Cora Nishimura, President
Wanda Aki, Past President
Gwen Sinclair, Secretary
Jan Nakayama, Treasurer
Stewart Chun, Events Chair
Lei Wakayama, LIS Liaison
Excused: Jodie Mattos, Awards/Scholarship Chair
Joseph Yue, Membership Chair
Jackie Reed, Member at Large
The meeting came to order at 12:20 p.m.
Discussion: The date was incorrectly listed as September 11, 2000. Contact information for Board members needs to be sent out again.
Action: Minutes accepted with correction. Gwen will send out contact information for the new Board.
Action: Cora sent a thank-you to Dr. Jacsó for his presentation at the Alumni Reunion.
Discussion: Is it possible to transfer the award funds to the department so that they are no longer under the control of the foundation?
Action: Lei will investigate what steps would be necessary.
Discussion: The graduation dinner will be in December.
Action: Stewart will gather the items for graduation packets in November. Gwen will assist him.
Discussion: The newsletter will go to the printer this week. Gwen may need someone to contact Cardinal Mailing Service to pick them up after they come back from the printer. Cora has some address corrections before the labels are printed.
Action: Lei will find out about getting labels printed.
Discussion: We still need to recruit a Vice President, Membership Co-Chair, and Continuing Education Chair. Several people have been mentioned for these positions in the past. The HLA Conference might be an opportunity to recruit Board members.
Discussion: There are a number of files in Jodie’s office that we need to look at for pertinent information about bylaws and other historical events. We may wish to consider having an archivist for the Alumni Group.
Action: Gwen will contact Jodie for permission to look at the files in her office. [Jodie later said it was all right to look through those files.]
Discussion: Cora and Lei attended the LIS Advisory Council meeting on Oct. 13. The LIS Program wishes to encourage school teachers who lack a library degree to enter the program. A shortage of school and public librarians is anticipated, and the program must find a way to provide more flexible classes to attract students. They are trying to offer HITS classes in the summer and to develop more online courses. One-credit courses are another possibility.
Dr. Jacsó announced that faculty rankings on publishing have been released and are available on the web at . The LIS program ranked number one in per capita scholarly productivity. This information will also appear in Dr. Jacsó’s article in the newsletter.
Discussion: Joseph suggested June 16 or 17 for the date. Stewart is the local liaison. Gwen will be the alternate. Gwen is going to ALA; Stewart is not going; Cora might go. Sherise Kimura and Carmel Asubar are the San Francisco liaisons.
Action: The location needs to be investigated in November and selected by December. The event can be publicized in the Spring newsletter and on e-mail.
Discussion: Joseph would like to develop criteria for the award to make it more prestigious. The sense of the board members present was that this is unnecessary, since we have such difficulty finding nominees in the first place.
The sequence of awards is Academic, Public, Special, and School. Next year’s award will be Special.
Action: Gwen will put the sequence on the web page so we don’t forget.
Discussion: We need to recruit a committee to organize next year’s reunion and decide on the date and location so that it can be printed in the Spring newsletter. Several suggestions for increasing attendance were discussed: combining with the May graduation dinner; having a picnic at Magic Island; having the event less frequently and announcing the Alumnus/Alumna of the Year at the December graduation dinner.
The meeting was adjourned at 1:00 p.m.
Next meeting: Sunday, November 12 at 12:10 p.m. in the LIS lobby
Submitted by Gwen Sinclair, Secretary