ETIG / EPIG Business Meeting
CLA – Toronto
June 18, 1999
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Present: Lauraine Armstrong, Sheila Comeau, Michael DeKoven, Linda Farmer, Angelique Hooles, Gordana Latinovic-Rauski, Susan Miller, Yelena Pancheshnikov, Judy Smith

The meeting was called to order at 5:10 p.m.

  1. Additions to the Agenda

    2. Item 5.5 "Grant Requests" was added to the agenda.

  2. Review of past year’s activities
  1. ETIG donated $1,000 in sponsorship to the Access ’98 conference.
  2. EPIG ran 3 session on Metadata. They came close to breaking even. Despite some co-ordination issues it was worth running the sessions.
  3. We will update the EPIG/ETIG listserve membership. You can e-mail Alan Burk (burk@unb.ca). We plan to make better use of the listserve to solicit ideas for Feliciter articles and ideas for conference sessions.
  4. Feliciter IT Column – Linda Farmer will continue as editor or she may put out a call on the listserve for expressions of interest. The format of the column may be changed to include interviews. The name of the column may change. Linda will be meeting with the Feliciter editorial board to discuss the possibility of getting a budget. Other ideas included: doing an interview at the Access conference in the autumn with someone who would be a speaker at the CLA conference in the following spring; interviewing people at CLA; having a short and informative "Information Byte" column.
  5. ETIG Newsletter – Jane [Beaumont] needs feedback. The newsletter was moribund in 1998/99. Is it still useful? Perhaps we should use it to point to presentations, conference announcements, events, etc. In the past, HTML tags were added to Feliciter articles and posted in the newsletter. As CLA moves to put news items, job announcements, etc. on its website and include weightier articles in Feliciter it may also offload responsibility for "publishing" division and interest group information to the divisions and interest groups.
  1. Treasurer’s Report

    2. Lauraine Armstrong presented the ETIG financial report for 1998. ETIG is in good shape financially with a 1998 year end balance of $9,303.10 and a balance of $8,803.10 to the end of April 1999. Sheila noted that the CLA pre-conference was expensive.

    EPIG has 38 members. CLA does all their books. They had 25 people to their pre-conference workshop and expect to net about $1,000 from that.

  2. Convenors: call for nominations

    3. ETIG – Sheila does not wish to continue as the convenor. She will put out a call for nominations on the listserve.

    EPIG – Linda Farmer and Alan Burk were co-convenors last year. Linda will take the lead role this year and Alan will assist her.

  3. Planning
  1. CACUL Workshop Incentive Grant
  2. Feliciter submissions
  3. CLA 2000 / Access ’99 – Next year put the agenda for the business meeting out ahead of time in an effort to attract more people to the meeting.
  4. Other events – We should take a look at what ALA is doing for continuing education. There is a push for renewed accreditation in technology. EPIG/ETIG could provide grant money for regional workshops. We can encourage other groups to do the workshops we do not have to do it all ourselves. Pre-conference workshops at regional conferences and CLA would provide continuing education opportunities for our members across the country.
  5. Grant requests

Meeting adjourned at 6:15 p.m.

Minutes submitted by Lauraine Armstrong.