First Session, Saturday, January 19 2002, 9:30-12:00

• President Flo Wilson called the meeting to order at 9:30am. She announced that the Board Meetings would no longer be audio taped. On behalf of the LITA Awards Committees, Wilson distributed a flyer calling for nominees for the 2002 LITA awards and she announced the flyer would be distributed at other sessions during Midwinter.

  There were no additions to the agenda.

  By CONSENT, the Board approved the Consent Agenda to confirm: e-mail votes that approve of the June 2001 Minutes from the LITA Board meeting at the 2001 ALA Annual Conference; e-mail votes to okay Larry Woods to continue as LITA representative to IFLA; e-mail votes to approve ITAL Web advertising procedures.

• Heard a report from LITA Executive Director, Mary Taylor, about the LITA membership. A mailing was sent to all LITA members who do not include their email address in their membership records. The mailing included information on the LITA Web site, a discussion list (lita-l@ala.org) on which people post LITA related news, the LITA National Forum, and LITA publications, and LITA members were encouraged to make sure that their e-mail address is included in the ALA’s member database. Taylor also reported on current membership numbers, a proposal that LITA award tokens of appreciation to LITA Board and Committee members at the end of their tenure.

  MOVED by Pat Ensor and seconded by George Machovec, it was VOTED that LITA approve the member recognition proposal.

• Discussed report from the Web-based CE Task Force. Susan Logue chaired the Task Force. The Education Committee will be asked to address the Task Force recommendations and move this initiative forward.
• Heard LITA Executive Director’s report from Mary Taylor. Taylor reported there are several new Regional Institutes in development, reviewed the LITA Publications Sales Report and the LITA Web site statistics. Discussed possibilities for programming and publication committees to share information and coordinate developments when possible. A regular conference call after each Midwinter Meeting and Annual Conference will be scheduled with the Chairs of the Publications, Regional Institutes, National Forum and Program Planning Committees.
• Joan Kuklinski reported on the effort of the ALA’s Office for Information Technology Policy to reaffirm the principles established in 1993 that grew out of a group of librarians meeting in Washington to discuss the Internet's potential impact on libraries. The current proposal, draft Principles for the Networked World, seeks to guide libraries’ telecommunication and information policies.

  MOVED by Joan Kuklinski and seconded by Jim Kennedy, it was VOTED that the LITA Board endorse the “Draft Principles for the Networked World” and communicate the Board’s support to ALA Council for ALA’s official acceptance of these principles.

Meeting adjourned until Tuesday, January 22, 2002 at 1:00p.m.

Second Session, Tuesday, January 22, 2002, 1:00pm - 4:30pm

• President Flo Wilson called the meeting to order at 1:00pm
• Heard Barbra Higginbotham’s report on the following ALA Council issues: ALA President-elect Mitch Freeman’s pay equity task force; the creation of the ALA Allied Professional Association (ALA/APA) - the 501.c6 organization; the report from the ALA Conference Coordinating Team concerning rescheduling ALA Midwinter Conference to not conflict with Martin Luther King Day, to delete the word “boycott” from ALA hotel contracts, and to not shorten Midwinter Conference by one day; the CIPA trial; and Council agenda items for remaining meetings.
• Heard report from Emily Sheketoff, Executive Director of the ALA Washington Office, regarding key ALA legislative messages and issues: The importance of LITA and the Office for Information Technology Policy to work together to stay aware of legal issues regarding library technology policies; the letter sent to Governor Tom Ridge, the Director of the Office of Homeland Security, that offered ALA’s help in endeavors to provide the American people with the resources they require during national emergencies; the Patriot Act that allows law enforcement to come to your library and extract information about the library use of patrons under suspicion only if the law enforcement have a court order or a subpoena; the government practice of taking down (“take downs”) government Web sites without keeping track of what sites are taken down.
• Heard report from Camile Alire, the ALA Executive Board liaison to LITA. Alire spoke about; the ALA/APA, a 501.c6 organization, the Congress on Professional Education (COPE), The External Accreditation Task Force report, CIPA fundraising, the Core Competencies Task Force report, and the ALA Executive Director search.
• Heard the Publications Committee report from Tom Wilson.
• Heard Bylaws and Organization Committee report from Susan Jacobson. Received written report that included a report on nine committees that were reviewed, potential Bylaws changes, and draft committee changes.
• All Board members VOTED to approve the renewal of the Emerging Technologies, the Human/Machine Interface, and the Internet Resources Interest Groups.
• All Board members VOTED to provisionally approve the new Interest Group, Digital Library Technologies, that will be formed from the merger of the Technical Issues of Digital Data and the Intelligent and Knowledge-Based System Interest Groups.
• Heard report from Rick Weingarten, the Director of ALA’s Office for Information Technology Policy. Weingarten proposes a closer working relationship with LITA; he especially needs quick access to technology experts.
• Received a report from Board member Machovec on the Leadership Development Committee (LDC) regarding ALA Conference mentoring of new leaders through the NMRT and their mentoring program for Spectrum Scholars.
• All Board members VOTED to accept the LDC’s recommendation that LITA work with the ALA Spectrum Office to offer one-year LITA mentors to Spectrum Scholars
• Heard the report of the LITA Budget Review Committee from Sara Randall. Received Fiscal Year 2002 budget report, LITA 10 year trend data, and Fiscal Year 2003 draft budget.
• Flo Wilson reported on the planning for the 2002 and 2003 National Forums.
• Heard Vice-President’s Report from Pat Ensor.
• Heard report from Joan Kuklinski and Scott Muir on the ALA Core Values Workshop.

The meeting was adjourned at 4:05pm.