Meeting Minutes

Minutes taken by Ashley Crace

ASIS&T Meeting 11/2/11 5pm central

Attendees:

  1. Elizabeth Levkoff
  2. Greg Carr
  3. Ashley Crace
  4. Audrey Taylor
  5. Patty Crow
  6. Stephen Asbury
  7. William
  8. Mike

 

 

Minutes:

  • Meeting began at 5:01pm CST
  • Amendments to constitution to split treasurer/secretary and include technology coordinator position
  • Definition of technology coordinator?
  • Vote on creating positions. Vote=majority to create
  • No hazing, University of Alabama policy
  • Dues and fines-cannot implement until after January 1st,  $40 for national, $10 to join just student chapter.  Vote=majority votes yes
  • Benefits of joining national: JASIST, networking, job line, conferences
  • New membership form: on website and Facebook
  • What other student groups do: trivia night, how to presentations, blogs, etc.
  • What do we want to be about?  How often to meet?
  • Tornado relief project volunteering, coordinate with other organizations in SLIS, SAC VP trying to coordinate
  • Bama Buddies?  Elizabeth will pursue
  • Social media: Facebook, twitter, website, twitter room
  • Dr. Chirag Shah event from Rutgers, November 10th approx. 1 hour, big deal in ASIS&T; try to get good showing
  • Chapter of the year/Poster presentations:  What does a good chapter look like?  Cool tools, updating weekly or twice weekly, new sites, linking to technology and speakers on site, social media and blogs about current events

William-distributed computing: with personal PC, research projects throughout world, lend hard drive to research projects for computing power to conduct research http://www.galaxyzoo.org/

  • November 17th plan? Working on program idea
  • Content for website based on individual interests twice a month
  • Discussion of advertising for events and programs

Adjourned 5:27 pm CST

Meeting Minutes

ASIST Meeting Minutes: 4 April 2011, 5:00PM to 6:00PM

 Attendees:
Kelli Bragg
Ruth Rowell
Stephen Stasbury
Susan DeBruin
William (Bill) Friedman
Xu Qiong, Joan

The Minutes:

  • Dr. Albertson was not able to attend meeting due to scheduling conflicts
  • Members approved updated bylaws
  • Members nominated permanent officers
    • Kelli was nominated to be secretary (MLIS candidate Dec 2011)
    • Ruth was nominated to be the president-elect
    • All other members are graduating
  • Discussed potential events again
    • Bill suggested a “Programming Party”
    • Interest displayed again for an HTML/CSS workshop
    • Discussed requesting Dr. Campbell-Meir do a presentation on digital repositories
    • ??? Anything I forgot to write down???
  • Signed Petition
    • Members physically present signed the petition
    • DE members will email in their signatures
  • Set tentative date for next meeting
    • Will meet again after finals (correct?)
    • Joan will send out another doodle survey to determine the best time
  • ON-GOING
    • Dr. Albertson recommended all members subscribing to the ASIST list serve: ASIS-L
    • Officers need to become official student members of ASIST (register & pay fee)
    • Susan made a Facebook page for the group (http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/home.php?sk=group_151039308289374&ap=1)
    • Everyone: RECRUIT MEMBERS
    • Adrith has contacted Reggie about getting a Wimba room for ASIST use
  • Tentative agenda for next meeting
    • Plan events
  • Did I forget anything?

Minutes by Susan DeBruin