Drawing from all applications will take place during the January 27 th meeting.

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LSO Meeting Minutes, January 17, 2006

In attendance: Joy, Michelle, Kristin, Ruth, Shana, Jana, Lynn, Lindsay, Rebecca, Coni, Marie, Robert

• Meeting Format: Keep meetings to 1 hour 15 minutes and no longer than an hour and a half. There will also be a moderator for each meeting (randomly asked) to make sure that discussion stays on topic, away from gossip, and to watch the time.
• Michelle and Coni are both voted into their positions by default. Coni is the new Fundraising coordinator and Michelle is the new Vice President/Treasurer. The alumni coordinator was open, but Kristin and Ruth volunteered to do it together. They win by default.
• Meeting Schedules: LSO meetings will be the 1 st Tuesday and the 3 rd Friday beginning in February. There was a discussion about weather or one of the meetings in the month should be officers only, but Joy consulted the constitution and all meetings are to be open to everyone. The happy hours after the Friday meetings will help to bring people in anyway. Joy will make out a master schedule and send it out.
• Class Liaisons: Remember to speak to your classes. There are a few online classes that have no liaisons, but Joy emailed the professors to plug LSO.
• Mailings went out to new students to invite them to LSO.
• The LSO can send a student to the ALA conference in New Orleans in June. The ALA deadline is February 1 st. The GPSC (Graduate Professional Student Council) has a travel stipend available and the deadline for that is February 1 st as well. The LSO will do a drawing at the January 27 th meeting (we will pick three names). The winner will have 24 hours to respond. The LSO is considering paying for travel if GPSC funds are not secured. LSO will decide in March about paying for airfare. [Planning for ALA would be ideal for before Christmas break.]
• Dreamweaver: Mary Feeney is booked for the semester. Instead of Marie (the LSO webmaster) teaching a Dreamweaver class, she says she can be available at a certain time in the computer lab. For other Dreamweaver teachers, Brian Atkinson, Chris Johnson, and Beth Hoffman’s name all came up. Lynn will email Brian and Chris to ask them and Joy will email Beth.
• The computers in the SIRLS lab need to be checked to make sure all updated versions of Dreamweaver are installed.
• Joy is going to re-do the bulletin board in the student lounge at SIRLS this weekend. She will send out a notice of when if anyone wants to join the party.
• Social Event: Something Sweet, January 24 @ 6:30pm for dessert and games. We debated about whether or not LSO would pay for this and it was decided (through a vote) that LSO will pay for it since it is a social LSO event and we have the budget. This led to the next point…
• What is LSO money supposed to be spent on? In the next meeting (January 27 th), we will set a budget. Everyone is to come with a proposed amount of what they might need.
• Treasure Report: LSO balance is a bit over $1,200.
• Michelle proposed LSO get a Paypal account. Paypal charges a fee of 1.9%-2.9% + $0.30 per transaction (no $0.30 charge if the payment is through a Paypal account.) LSO approved getting a Paypal account through a vote.
• Marie is fixing problems/links on the website. We will first post minutes to the officers (through emails until LSOEXEC listserv is set up.)
• On the LSO membership forms, many people approved putting their name on the directory—but the directory doesn’t exist yet. Marie will check the status of it on the website. The directory will contain names and phone numbers and will help us know who is a part of LSO and paid up.
• The group went over a survey whose purpose is to learn about the SIRLS students. It will be sent out and returned through email.

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LSO Meeting 1/27/06
Meeting Minutes

Symposium planning—have a narrow vision by Feb. Local authors? Joan Fry Williams, Jeanie Goodwrich. Let’s know by Feb. 24 the theme and speaker ideas. Also send out a call for papers at this time.

Drawing for ALA 1) Olivia Sparks, 2) Ruth, 3) Monica. Post winner on the LSO website.

Michelle—

• She completed a spreadsheet of finances where we can categorize the money: $1,792
• Paypal is up on the LSO website.
• 5 applications since the semester began.
• the “change of address” for LSO officers has happened.

Rebecca—

• The first part of faculty meetings are open to any student.
• Living the Future 6 is a program through the UA library to take place April 5-8. $160/early bird student. If we help, will they help our organization?

Reading the minutes in meetings is nixed. We will hit the high points anyway and the minutes are sent out over the listserve.

Lynn—

• Survey: Marie will work on setting it up on email form.
• “taste of ALA” –an overview of sections of ALA is being set up, just the date needs to be fixed. Probably in late Feb. or early March.
• Dreamweaver workshops—Chris Johnson will teach a beginning and advance class. Brian will get back to Lynn on the e-portfolios.
• Phoenix students—Are there tutorials for them since they may not be able to attend classes? What about a presentation through Breeze? We will look into this.

John—

• There will be one big event per semester and then smaller events throughout.
• BBQ in SIRLS courtyard. We will have a semester to build this up. John has experience in catering. It will probably be mid to end of April.

Marie—

• The directory is working. The website has many broken links fixed. She has emailed Kat for access.
• She will sent out the hours for the dreamweaver help. We can use the old chat page through the El Pueblo website to answer dreamweaver questions.
• Dreamweaver in SIRLS will be reset to the original version.
• Can we add $1 donation for paypal? Yes, Marie will add that to the website.

Distant Student—

• Phx event on 2/22.
• They do not have a SIRLS/Phx Directory, but we will get them on our directory.
• She created a wiki http://arizonalso.pbwiki.com. She would like feedback.
• They want to have possibly 2 fundraisers.
• Put LSO in the subject lines in emails.

Monica—

• Bibliotech deadline is Feb. 17. They will have 2 issues.

Coni—

• Mold the fundraising around social activities and programs.
• We are past the deadline for spring fling, but we should do it for next semester.
• Club fairs are in August and January. We missed it and this info is passed through the club President’s listserve.
• Homecoming deadline is July 1 st.
• A booth on the Mall is do-able. You can have a booth any day. To use campus facilities (tables) cost money, but your own card table is free. If you go through wholesalers, no permit is needed. If you sell food, you have to fill out a worksheet. Decide by Feb. 6 th.
• Candy bars is 50% profit.
• People can put papers (Valentines) up on the board and keep a jar of money out for people to put in a buck.
• Percentage nights:
• La Salsa—15% flyers.
• No Anchovies—15% flyers to cashier. They do catering and will do a discount for us.
• Baja Fresh—15%
• Sweet Tomatoes—15%
• Laughs (Laff’s?)—Group Deals: 3 comedians, 299 people max. $6, $14 tickets, we keep all money.

Vote on restaurants via email.

Vote on other ideas:

• Yes--Valentine’s Day table in the mall
• Yes—Jar with money
• Yes—Candy Bars

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LSO Meeting Minutes, 7 February 2006

6:15 pm,SIRLS Multipurpose Room

Attendees (6): Joy Wilcox, President; Michelle Johnson, V.P.; Lynne Collins, Program Coordinator; Lori, Donna and third person did not get name, members

Officer Reports:
Joy- President
- Honduran librarian visit/tour of campus- ten (10) visiting librarians upcoming visit to campus and SIRLS. Details forthcoming. LSO to help decorate, set-up, serve, and clean up for luncheon to be held in multipurpose room.
- Christine Dykgraff (undergrad teacher) permission to sell candy outside her classroom-Harvill Hall- on Mon and Wed 3-4 pm; about 400 students. Joy to check into any needed special permission to do this. Joy will provide LSO labels to put on candy bars.
- LSO needs to recharter as an organization. Joy just implemented process this week (takes ~ 5-7 business days).
- Rebecca sold $45.00 worth of candy in one of her classes this past week
- Monday night (2/13 or early am 2/14; by 8:00am--Deliver treats to SIRLS multipurpose room for Valentine’s Day event on the mall.

Michelle Johnson-V.P treasurer
- Current treasury amount: $1,808.62

Lynne Collins- Program Coordinator
- Survey update- completed and on SIRLS website
- Taste of ALA-Ruth D. coordinating speaker. $75.00 provided from ALA for food/ads?
- Dreamweaver update: Lynne or Chris to work particulars for SIRLS website

John Walsh- Social Coordinator
- BBQ- need a vegetarian menu
- Tentative date= May 3,

Olivia Sparks- Distance Student Liaisons
- Still working Virtual coverage of meetings: Considering Skykes; videocam? Undecided
- Wiki not to replace SIRLS website. Need both. Needs further discussion and eval.

6. Ruth Morgan- Alumni Liaisons
- Per Ruth, no alumni have responded

OUTSTANDING BUSINESS- Nancy Pearl (Jane the Librarian Action Figure) as keynote speaker for upcoming November symposium??; Drawing for student to staff program at ALA (travel expenses if winner isn’t granted funding).

Next Meeting: Joy to announce via LISTSERVE ? Not announced.

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LSO Meeting Minutes, 24 February 2006

Time: 6:15PM
Location: SIRLS Multi-Purpose Room

Present: Joy, Coni, Lynn, Rebecca, Marie, Olivia (virtual attendance)

Officer Reports:

President, Joy Wilcox

• Taste of ALA was successful; a total of 21 people (including speakers). How can we make a better turnout?
• This was relatively short notice; longer notice may increase turnout
• Friday may not be a good day for events
• Perhaps Taste of ALA should be held every semester
• We should try to find students who have been to ALA to speak at this event (to see from student’s perspective
• Professional Development events – Job-Related events
  • Job searching resources. The links on LSO’s job resources page have been updated. Planning on Friday 3/24 or Tuesday 3/21 from 12-1PM for Job Resources presentation. Voted – decided Friday 3/24 and perhaps later in afternoon (for better turnout, perhaps distance students).
  • Resume Tips presentation. Mary Feeney and others will present. This will be Friday 4/14 from 2-4PM.
  • Resume Consultation – about 4 librarians of different types (organized by Mary Feeney) will consult students one-on-one for 30 minutes at a time. This will be Friday 4/28 from 2-4PM. Students must register in advance to have this opportunity.
• High school student visit
  • Only 25 minute break; some of us will go to speak about Library profession and SIRLS\
• New SIRLS student e-mail requesting advice on volunteering in a library
  • Joy will e-mail and give this student contact info
• Advisapalooza
  • We will advertise on the listserv
  • Coni will talk to Leslie about using Skype for this event

Vice-President, Michelle Johnson: absent

• Joy reported that we have about $2000

Faculty/Student Liasion and Jobs Coordinator, Rebecca Blakiston

• Sent out Living the Future 6 e-mail today, Michelle will keep track of money and who registers
• Good response so far from faculty/staff feedback survey; will report on faculty meeting 3/8 next time

Program Coordinator, Lynne Collins

• Very happy with Taste of ALA turnout.
• Has received 38 responses from LSO survey sent out to listserv. Half of these responses do not give their name and information, though, and so we cannot contact. Will send another e-mail out. So far, several comments have included that the times students would prefer events are in the evenings.

Webmaster/Listserv Manager, Marie Martin

• Nothing new on the website since the last update.
• Dreamweaver courses – 21 people have signed up for all of the classes. Out of department students in the Agriculture college want to come.
• Marie will e-mail Chris to see if he has an evaluation form to hand out after the classes to improve their effectiveness.
• On 3/8, there will be a vote on the new e-portfolio requirements.

Distance Student Liaison, Olivia Sparks (Linda Cowell absent)

• Wednesday Phoenix event at Starbucks a success – 8 people showed up excluding the officers. Got good feedback from students who attended; requested more social events.
• Received 7 responses from the Phoenix survey so far.
• Arizona Convocation on 3/5 and 3/6; are looking for volunteers at Webjunction and Arizona History Project
• Medical Library Association Annual Meeting in Phoenix May 19-May 24 --four hours of volunteering will give us free registration.
• Results of survey will determine where they will have a fundraiser

Fundraising Coordinator, Coni Weatherford

• Candy sales are a hit! Have raised $400 when we sell the boxes we have now. Plan to keep selling candy.
• Laff’s – suggests we put off this fundraiser until we can guarantee a good turnout; voted and agreed to not do the Laff’s fundraiser this semester
• Proposed new t-shirt for next semester using a tag cloud; black shirts with white letters
• Lame for a Game on 4/6; we agreed to sell tickets ($5 tickets, we get $2 profit each); Coni will get back to us about this

Other business

• Joy suggests we keep track of everything we do; documentation is good for the next LSO officers as well as ourselves
• Possibly Carla Stoffle or Nancy Ledeboer as keynote speakers for the symposium (much cheaper if we hire someone local)

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LSO Meeting Minutes, March 7, 2006

In Attendance: Joy, Michelle, Kristin, Lynn, Ruth, Marie, Rebecca, Coni, Jana, Beth

1. The printer in SIRLS has been out of commission. Leslie will send out an email that they are watching it for a month.

2. Treasure Report: approximately $2300 (minus what will be spent on ALA student airfare)

3. Raffle winners for Living the Future 6 are Coni, Gabriel Sykes, and Jaye Caldwell. Rebecca will email them.

4. Rebecca met with Jana on Student feedback. The next meeting is tomorrow March 8 th.

5. Survey

Putting contact info is okay on the results because it’s only between officers. The countable/content answers are in a separate category.

Some results:

• Many people have never been to the website.
• We need to communicate with the students and have more activities.
• Students would like a library here in SIRLS, possibly have old text books.
• Request for mentoring.
• Overall, the want is help and communication.

Possible solutions and issues:

• Have a meeting to meet the officers
• Virtual online chat
• Have a variety of activities, not just happy hours
• Brown Bag lunches.

There is frustration that attendance is low at the activities that LSO has planned.

6. The website is up to date

7. Dreamweaver workshop: 16 people are signed up for tonight.

8. Fundraising:

Candy sales have made $300 in profit. Some boxes are still available. Even the melted boxes sold.

Lame for a game

T-shirts (baby doll) , book bags, mugs, mouse pads.

9. John will pound out solid ideas for the BBQ. Possible date is May 4 th (dead day).

10. Ruth received 8 responses from alumni, some offered to help with the symposium.

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LSO Meeting Minutes for March 24, 2006

In attendance: Joy, Michelle, Lynne, Shannon, Kyle, Ruth, Jana, Rebecca

Joy, president:

• Recap of Brown Bag today: 16 attendees

Michelle, VP:

• Treasure Report: $2240
• A check came in for LTF6, but was past the deadline. (Our fault, the mail was not checked.) Should we pay for the rest? Michelle will contact the woman and if we have to pay we will (vote taken).

Rebecca, faculty/student liaison and jobs coordinator:

• Minutes from faculty meeting will go out tomorrow. We received some feedback.
• Some don’t have office hours
• Use more electronic reserves
• Use d2l more for assignments

Lynne, program coordinator:

• Survey Responses:
• 15 more responses to survey
• Deadline is March 31 and results will be out by April

Marie, webmaster/listserv manager:

• Recap of Dreamweaver workshop: Attendance of about 15
• There are no hand outs for advanced skills. Tutorials are available online.

Coni, fundraising:

• Lame for a Game fundraiser is nixed—no interest.

Olivia and Linda, distant student liaison:

• Wiki is a nogo due to lack of interest.
• Olivia was awarded $200 for travel to GPSC
• 38 students responded to the Phoenix survey. They show interest library tours, coffee, dinners, and Saturdays are generally a good day.

Kristin and Ruth, alumni liaisons:

• Working on feedback for the symposium.
• Possibly have a “warm up” for alumni at the symposium
• Ruth will email alumni to see if there is interest.

Other business:

BBQ: Move it to Saturday May 6 th? Joy will send an email out to officers to we will vote on a date. Possibly Cinco de Mayo themed? John was going to do much of it, but some of it may be potluck—like bring a potluck side or desert.

Symposium Keynote Speakers:

• Panel of 2 people, possibly Carla and Nancy? (UA and TPPL)
• Someone voiced the opinion that we should get away from the locals and bring in someone new for a different perspective.
• Find a theme, then we could know what to look for.
• Officers are to look for someone (brainstorm), find out about them and their price.
• Ask professors to play larger roles (possibly to moderate?)
• Joy will look at the calendar for dates.

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LSO Meeting Minutes for April 21, 2006

In attendance: Joy, Michelle, Lynne, Ruth, Coni, Rebecca

Joy, president:

• BBQ: Saturday, 6 May, from 3pm to 8pm at Professor Higgin’s house. Attendees need to RSVP to LSO by 3 May. Everyone is welcome, including all SIRLS students, faculty, family and friends. Food will be supplied.
• Symposium: Michael Stevens will be the keynote speaker. Event is Saturday, 18 November, probably from 9am to 3pm in the ILC.
• Elections: Some positions will be open for the Fall semester (June through December) 2006. Nominees must identify themselves by 3 May and elections will be held from 3 May to 12 May.

Michelle, vice president:

• Treasure Report: $2322.
• Over $800 has been raised so far this semester through fundraising

Rebecca, faculty/student liaison and jobs coordinator:

• LTF-6 went well. The LSO volunteers introduced the guest speakers. It was a great networking opportunity and though it was focused on the academic world, many discussions were applicable to other areas. Agreed it is a great event to do next year.
• Unable to attend the faculty meeting but has requested the minutes. Received positive feedback from students on sending out the minutes.

Lynne, program coordinator:

• Survey will be done on Monday. Last few responses have stressed more communication between students.
• Several ideas were discussed to address this including a wiki, having different LSO officers online at certain times for students to use, and posting professional development reports on the LSO website for students to use.
• An “AskLSO” email address was proposed to allow LSO, SIRLS, and external people to contact LSO officers with questions.

Marie, webmaster/listserve manager:

• Sent out a recap via email.

Coni, fundraising:

• Trying to reach the $1000 fundraising goal.

Olivia and Linda, distant student liaison:

• Had an excellent turnout for Friends meeting.

Kristin and Ruth, alumni liaisons:

• Will email alumni about the picnic and symposium after this meeting.

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LSO Meeting Minutes for May 15, 2006

• Attended: Coni Weatherford, Robert Merideth, Shana Harrington, Bjorn Tipling, Lynne Collins,   Rebecca Blakiston
• Absent: Olivia Sparks, Marie Martin, Michelle Johnson, Freddy Martinez, Ruth Morgan
  
• Reviewed Minutes from 5/17 Student Activy Summit
  
• Discussed Jobs/Career/Pizza Series (planning and name)
  
• Discussed Symposium Funding
  
• Voted on meeting times and place for LSO during the summer:
  -Every other Friday from 6 - 730 pm with LSO Happy hour.
  --June 2nd, 16th, 30th, July 14th, 28th, Augh 11th, 25th
  Place: Udall Center Main -office 803 E F Street Tucson AZ, 85719
   -Contact person is Robert Merideth
  
• Also discussed SIRLS student activities and blog adminstration. Bjorn Tipling will take over the LSO blog adminstrative duties.

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LSO Meeting Minutes June 16, 2006

Attendees: Lynn, Robert, Ruth, Bjorn, Rebecca, Olivia, Michael, John,

Virtual: Michael, Marie, Freddie

Agenda Updated.

Bulletin board at SIRLS discussed

Chat Sessions – Chat options discussed: Frapper or Jabber?

Mentoring Program:

• Assigned mentors

Discussed Symposium

• Formed a subcomittie
• set for November 18 th

Job/Career/Pizza meeting discussed

• Something with internships?
• Resume and other career opportunities type and things planned

Wiki

• Olivia handling it, need to reconcile data on wiki, go live?

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LSO Meeting Minutes June 30th 2006

Attendees: Beth, Rebecca, Ruth, Freddie, Robert, Connie, Monica, Bjorn

Virtual: John, Mike

Discussed chat session

Mentoring – how it went, some response from students.

Symposium –

• setting up meeting time
• place
• funding
• other details

SIRLS 504

• asked for suggestions on 504 handout
• suggestions for bookmarks

Job Services

• meetings
• 30 min pics

Discussed Wiki

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LSO Meeting Minutes July 14, 2006, 5:30PM

Present: Connie Weatherford, Michelle Johnson, Rebecca Blakiston, Ruth Morgan, Lynne Collins, Robert Merideth, Beth Hoffman, John Walsh

Officer FYIs

• Update on new student mailings-Marie will update the directory and add new students to the listserv as the LSO enrollments come in.
• Symposium meeting this Sunday; Joy is official Symposium Planner
  • We want to encourage new students to be involved in planning, as all planners at this point will be graduating prior to the 2007 Symposium

Student Activities Summit

• Rebecca and Ruth: Jobs Series dates are 2 nd Monday of the month 9/11, 10/9, not 11/13 (too many things going on) ( Phoenix dates are 9/5, 10/3, and 11/7)
• Jeremy Reeder (Maricopa County Library System) will present in Tucson and Phoenix in September
• Possible panelists for October session - Mary Feeney, Sandy Kramer, Mike Cehio, Bonny Bruce (administrator for staff development)-Ruth is working on the details
• Important: Set meeting dates/times for Fall to put on SIRLS calendar before next 504 class. Meeting dates are 1st Friday and 3rd Tuesday of every month, beginning Sept1. Last August meeting has been cancelled to make way for Jana’s Meet-n-Greet event.
• Bibliotech dates/deadlines determined and on SIRLS calendar: August 28 th and September 4 th, October 30 th and November 6 th
• Jana definitely hosting a welcoming party on Saturday, 8/26, time TBA; will also be advertised as the “meet-and-greet your advisor” event
• LSO/SLA end-of-year party; tentative date Saturday 12/9

Student Reflections on Professional Conferences

• Olivia, Freddy, and Rebecca, possibly Wendy-date of presentation TBA, should we combine it with food for more attendance? A weekend? Follow up on this.

Mentoring Program

• (Mentors: Marie, Lynne, John, Olivia, Mike, Coni, Rebecca, Freddy, Gabrielle Sykes-Casavant, Lacey Hicks)
• So far so good! Some good contacts have been made.

Lynn will present about LSO to the 504 class on July 24 th.

Michelle reported on the status of funds, cost of student mailings. We have $2364 in the LSO account.

Marie is beginning to use Google analytics to find out more about the website useage.

Connie and Marie to work on saving the LSO meeting podcasts as MP3s to get them on the website. Ruth may be able to provide input, as she is looking into similar ideas to go along with the Jobs series of events.

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LSO Meeting Minutes, July 28, 2006, 6:00PM

Present: Robert, Olivia, Rebecca. Absent: Marie, Michelle, Coni, Ruth

Officer FYIs

• New student mailings have been sent (Monday 7/17)
• Symposium planning has begun; will meet again on Monday
• Official information updated with ALA and UA
• Bjorn has resigned as secretary and blogmaster
• Marie’s report:
• LSO site "numbers": we are getting more traffic than I expected, ranging anywhere from 15 to 80 hits per day for the last two weeks. (And I have filtered out MY IP address, so I am not skewing the numbers every time I go to look at changes I've made!) Not bad, I guess. And the hits are coming from literally all over the world--mostly in Tucson/Phoenix area, but lots from other parts of the US (including Alaska and Hawaii), and a significant number from other countries, especially southeast Asia. Interesting! Good news is that most people are using high speed internet, and the vast majority use Internet Explorer... all this information is great for planning any changes to the site (the high-speed and IE info means you can optimize changes for that browser and can have more than just tiny graphics, for example).
• And on that note, I hope to work out some kind of test or survey to find out what changes we should do with the site. The organization is getting kind of bulky, and I would like to re-work it before I leave in December, or at least get things well started for the next webmaster, if I don't have time. If anyone wants to volunteer to brainstorm with me on that, it would be great.
• The Symposium section of the site is up, as you know, and that will keep changing as more information comes in.

Report on IRLS504

• Rebecca attended
• Social for new students on Saturday, 4:00PM, at Gentle Ben’s – 16 people have RSVP’d so far
• 2 student are interested in being Secretary – Etta Thorn and Nikki Glazier. Will attend next meeting and be “voted in.”

Fall Programs

• Ruth absent – Happy Birthday, Ruth!
• Jan Knight, Mary Graham (AHSL), and Ann Dutton Ewbank Ewbank (school libraries; can see her site at members.cox.net/adutton1) have agreed to be on the Jobs Panel (October). So the Tucson speakers are all set! Now I just have to figure out about pizza and podcasting the panels.
• Margaret Higgins has been e-mailed regarding a session on Presentations in November (before the Symposium)
• Sandy Kramer is unable to give her resume workshop on the week we had suggested (September 25th). Working on picking another date. She also mentioned that some of her colleagues that work on the hiring task force, 4 of them, are willing to do resume consultations with students.
• I got four presentations from the Area Studies Symposium and am working with Marie to get them on our LSO site. If anyone has a clever link title for the presentations (Professional Development just isn't catchy and only LSO officers would understand it) that would be helpful.
• ARLIS is having their Northwest Chapter meeting this year in Tucson Oct 12 - 14. ASML's Mary Graham (and crew) are heading that up. She hasn't figured out all the details but expects she might need some student volunteers and says they'll have student discounts. I'm thinking this is something SLA folks might want to take on...not sure.

Mentoring Program

(Mentors: Marie, Lynne, John, Olivia, Mike, Coni, Rebecca, Freddy, Gabrielle Sykes-Casavant, Lacey Hicks)

• 7 new mentees signed up at the IRLS504 class; 6 still need to be assigned. Assign some today?
• Lynne: update on what to do with list of interested students from survey
• Currently, SIRLS has an online form for alumni to fill out if they want to be a mentor: http://www.sir.arizona.edu/alumni/mentor.html. Could we use this?

Virtual Attendance at Meetings

• SIRLS cannot provide a laptop
• Options?
• Checking out laptop from the Library and possibly holding meetings at the library (“presentation” rooms might be able to be booked)

THINGS TO DO:

WHAT	WHO	BY WHEN
Announce wikispace	Olivia	August 11 th
E-mail LSO directory to listserv	Marie, Michelle	September 19 th
Student Reflections on Professional Conferences: Set date (either 9/23, 9/30, or 10/7)	Olivia, Freddy, and Rebecca	September 1 st
Create LSO e-mail account	Rebecca	August 11 th

FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS:

Assign Class Liaisons

• What to talk about

Spring Internship Fair

• We have group of volunteers from TPPL
• Ruth: will coordinate this with them and SLA? Anything we can do to help Phoenix fair this fall?

Bibliotech

• Freddy: update on issue

ALA website

• What do they say about how to recruit?

Chat Sessions (6:15-6:25)

• Olivia, Rebecca: update on what programs are available; what should we use?
• Frapper?
• Peekko (Firefox plug-in); would need to pick an unused channel or set up an IRC client; is it worth setting up an IRC client?

Wiki

• Olivia: update

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LSO Meeting Minutes August 11, 2006

Present: Rebecca (President), Connie, Etta, Barbara, Lynn (Alumni Liaison), Jerald, Michelle (Treasurer), Ruth (Faculty/Student Liaison & Program Coordinator), Robert and Marie (Webmaster). Robert – Moderator

Introductions

Vote for new officers:

• Co-Secretaries: Barbara and Etta – Unanimous Ayes
• Fundraising: Jerald – Unanimous Ayes

FYI: (Rebecca)

• Mentee/Mentors are taken care of
• Request for LSO email address and own list server
• Add Leslie to List server
• Online Chat Sessions – Gatley.com
  • All check out site for opinions
  • Issue – with Gatley’s archiving of past conversations

Connie: LSO T-shirts with University of Arizona logo for future consideration

Jerald: LSO a non-profit – tax free organization – Who exactly is the non-profit?

Rebecca: Assign Class Liaisons – advocates for LSO, inform classmates about programming, and contact person.

• Robert – digital libraries 580, decision making 613
• Ruth – government information572, organization of information 515, online searching 532,
• Lynn – user interface – online 575,
• Etta – research methods 506 – on campus, medical online searching 588-794
• Barbara – research methods506 – online
• Connie – issues in culture and information technology – 553
• Jerald – info resources – phoenix - 460

Connie: School Librarian Issue tabled

Michelle: (Treasurer) Current Funds $2308

LSO mailing for new IRLS students – 504 both sections – not received. SIRLS place into mail? Michelle will ask on Monday.

August 26, 2006 – LSO Gathering @ Jana’s house to get to know each other.

Ruth: (Program Coordinator & Student/Faculty Liaison)

• First meeting with Jana – Monday
• Reminder to give feedback on online courses

Programming:

• Jobs, Careers & Pizza – Karaon with Jeremy Reader on September 11 th
• Panel Discussion – With Mary Gram, Jan Knight & Pam Ubank on October 9 th
• Student Summit is October 17 th
  • Presentations of Presentations:
  • Patty Overall – Mon. Nov. 9th 5:30-7p
  • Still need someone for Nov. 11 th – daytime

Symposium is November 18 th

Web Link for Professional Development?

• Not up yet. Discussion for Name Change. Suggestions?

Student Reflections on Professional Conferences is one of three dates: Sept. 23, Sept. 30 th, or Oct. 7 th.

• Olivia, Rebecca, Connie – presenters
• Need more presenters
• After presentations – social event for LSO
• Maybe combine with Casino Night

Note: Sept. 30 th has a home U of A football game

Resume Class:

• Mary Feeney, Sandy Kramer,
• Which is more useful class on writing or personal consultation? Trying for both – to help our December grads.
• Cover Letters – class? Check with Sandy Kramer.
• Job applications / Professional Development:
• Someone from TPPL to review job applications and cover letters
• Interview workshops with Bonnie
• Looking for dates

Fall Meeting Location:

After discussion it was decided that Bookends Café is our future meeting site.

Upcoming LSO Officers Meeting at the Bookends Café on September 1 st and September 19 th at 6 pm.

Skype will be available to virtually attend.

Ideas for Mentors inform about – basic everyday information, how to get books, info about professors, classes and the area.

Suggestions for Programming – Connie – How to use our ePortfolios for job development? & Workshop to train students on ePortfolio.

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LSO Meeting September 19, 2005

Attending : Beth, Paula, Rebecca, Jenna, Nancy ? virtually, Ruth, Mira, Roseann,

FYI $2067 in account

Jana ? attended to give heads up on financial crisis ? see separate document, would email the rest to Ruth

Paula agreed to set up a committee on the issue of raised fees.

As a group we discussed the issue with funding before deciding to move on, and let it be handled by a committee or board.

Tony ? Reforma gave money for the reception after the symposium

Student Reflections conference is September 30 th at the Marshall building on Euclid ? above the Arizona book store. La Aldea for BBQ afterwards. Not many people have RSVPed on the Wiki yet. PowerPoint's will be hung online with presenter permission.

Ruth ? 1 st job series went well. Next is October 13 th ? Tom Wilding ? Academic Library Jobs.

Discuss Mentoring next time.

LSO ? Information Roundtable ? March 23-25 on ethical issues, specifically Indigenous Knowledge and Cultural Property.

Internship Fair ? November 1 st

Symposium ? Still having room issues.

Next Meeting is October 6, Room inside Library ? Issues with Tuesday Meetings ? Maybe switch to every other Friday??

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LSO Meeting 10-6-06

• Attending: Rebecca, Beth, Michelle, Dale, Tracy, Paulina, Adam, Lynne, Shannon, Roseanne, Conni, Allie, Cecelia

• Spring Fling ? meeting for fundraiser on Oct. 18 th at 6 pm. We haven't done it before, but any club on campus can do it looking for volunteers.

• Resume consultations are next Friday.

• Career fair ? check into having TPPL as a cover representative.

• Future meetings ? Consensus ? 1 st and 3 rd Fridays for meeting from now on. Next LSO Meeting ?
  OCTOBER 20 TH

• Raffle Drawing for AZLA ? Pam Gatia

• AZLA - $40 bucks for students to attend.

• Student Fee Issue ? Forum proposed two dates to Janna ? came to last meeting to talk about it wants response from students ?night - @ 5.30 ? 6 Friday ? Oct. 20 th ? ideally at 5.30 or October 27 th - We also have an form on the website.
  • Question was raised about accounting where has the money for the proposed scholarships been in the past?
  • SIRLS ? top five highest fee of grad. College ? why ??
  • How will this affect our accreditation?
  • Bottom line understanding of costs ? why it is so expensive
  • HAVE FORUM- to address issues raised see previously stated date.

• Tech brown bags on wenesdays are having a low attendance. Issues due to parking at noon people are not going, it is kind of basic for those with a tech background, and noon is bad for people.
  • Our suggestions more advertising, send out short!!! reminder emails, weds at 5.30/6 better.
  • Podcasting ? Look into should we keep doing them. Bruce have counters on the podcasts.

• Homecoming ? Nov. 11 th , Sat ? Handouts, @ table at Social Behaviorial Sciences tent ? needs volunteers ? Noon ? 4, -- volunteers ? Adam, Ceclia,

• Meet your major ? fair, Tracy, Freddie, Lynne, - giveaways ? sell candy: fund raiser -

• Lynne ? listserve ? hear from alumni ? mentors for student-fourm in which studentss post questions and alums post answers

• email contact and area of libarianship then specifically email for more personal mentoring

• Wiki or Blog
  • Wiki ? everyone can contribute equally ? discussion questions on the wicki-
  • Blog ? only certain people can post ? currently ? can set one up. ? can develop profiles ?reverse mentoring with tech questions ? can link names to profile/blog
  • Need to get alums to participate, and to get them to participate they have to be comfortable with the technology
  • Really only one person uses Wiki, a lot more use blog.
  • New blog ? discuss next meeting ? check out blog and wiki and look into ? new blog with anonymous.

• Shannon ? social events: Shanty tonight ? can order food in ? Past social events ? BBQ ? interesting presenters ? lots of fun ? ppts online, Marie will do as soon as she gets them from the presenters - looking forward to grad symposium

• Symposium ? call for papers . Come present ? October 15 th ? papers due ? can ask for extension if needed.

• Nov. reception at gentle bens- Reforma sponsoring appetizers, raffle at attendance.

• AZla ? Olivia is planning something ?

• Handouts for Homecoming: Bookmarks , candy t-shirts

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