Executive/Budget Review Committee

2005 Midwinter Meeting, Boston

Friday, January 14, 2:00-4:00, Sheraton, Beacon A

Minutes

Present: Colby Riggs, President, Patrick Mullin, President-Elect, Thomas Wilson, Past President, Bonnie Postlethwaite, Director, Karen Schneider, Councilor, and Mary Taylor, Executive Director. Guests: Zoe Marshall, Chair, Web Policy Task Force and Aaron Dobbs, Member, OITP Advisory Committee

Reviewed meeting agenda and added: 1) report from Aaron Dobbs, 2) Sirsi Scholarship, and 3) plans for ALA Strategic Plan Board meeting discussion.

The Fall Meeting minutes (2005MWEC-1) email vote was confirmed by consensus.

Heard report from Aaron Dobbs on the OITP November retreat on cyber infrastructure. A copyright advisory network blog has been established and has 400 subscribers. As a result of this successful pilot, the Committee will be looking for volunteers to go through training. Those trained will serve as resource people for two years. Fifty volunteers will be needed. Aaron will post a list of trends and related policy questions to LITA-L.

Heard report from Mary Taylor (2005MWEC-2) on staff goals for the year.

Discussed strengthening ties to Canada’s OLITA and CLA by offering Regional Institutes either in or close to Canada.

Heard update from Colby Riggs on the 2005 LITA National Forum. Sixty proposals have been received and are being reviewed by the Forum Planning Committee. The committee has a number of ideas for various activities and will be meeting twice at this Midwinter.

Heard update from Pat Mullin on the 2006 LITA National Forum. Dale Poulter is chair of the Planning committee, others have agreed to serve, and other offers are pending.

Heard budget review from Tom Wilson. The FY05 first quarter report looks quite good for the year. Overall revenues are up and expenses are down. The FY05 draft budget revenues and expenses are generally held to the 05 levels. A 12% reduction in dues revenue will be reconsidered later this year.

Discussed the Town Meeting plans, which include an opportunity for committees’ chairs’ reports and a review of the draft LITA Strategic Plan.

Tom Wilson announced that he was able to get Clifford Lynch’s National Forum general session presentation audiotape digitized and Michelle Frisque has posted it to the LITA Web site. Discussed plans to have Top Tech Trends and/or the LITA President’s program captured as either digitized audio or video in Chicago. Colby indicated plans are in place to identify a member volunteer to do this. The tape will be posted for members only where stats will be collected to determine whether members access it.

Discussed the withdrawal of the Sirsi sponsorship of the LITA/Sirsi Scholarship. LITA will fund the scholarship this year if we cannot find a sponsor to do so. Tom requested a broader discussion of sponsorship be put on the spring Executive Committee meeting with further discussion planned for the whole Board at Annual Conference.

Discussed plans for strategic planning at the Saturday Board meeting. Decided to discuss the draft LITA Strategic Plan first and then discuss the ALA draft plan. Each Executive Committee member took one goal from the ALA plan to identify those items most relevant for the LITA Board to provide feedback. After each goal is presented to the Board, members will form three small groups to consider what feedback is needed.

Meeting adjourned at 4:18.

Future Executive Committee meetings:

Spring meeting dates, March 11 & 12, 2005 in Chicago

AC meeting date, June 24, 2005 in Chicago