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MEMBERSHIP MEETING
ALA MIDWINTER CONFERENCE
Boston, Massachusetts
Saturday, January 15, 2005
Minutes
- Call to Order, Introductions, Announcements (R. Lubas for R. Freeborn)
Vice President/President Elect Rebecca Lubas called the meeting to order at 8:01 p.m. She introduced herself and the other OLAC Board Members present introduced themselves. Board Members present: Rebecca Lubas, Robert Bothmann, Amy Weiss, Cathy Gerhart, Jain Fletcher, Lisa Bodenheimer. Ex Officio members present: Greta de Groat, John Attig.
There were 28 attendees in total.
The location of the 2006 OLAC Conference was announced. It will be held in Tempe, Arizona. Tim Diehl of Arizona State University will act as Conference Chair.
OLAC is looking for an Outreach Coordinator. Anyone interested in volunteering should contact an OLAC Board member.
The Awards Committee has selected a winner of the Nancy Olson OLAC Award. The announcement of the winner will be made at ALA Annual in Chicago.
- Secretary’s Report (A. Weiss)
The minutes of the Membership Meeting held in Montréal, Canada, in October 2004 were approved.
- Treasurer’s Report (R. Bothmann)
Please see the full report elsewhere in this issue.
- Newsletter Editor’s Report (J. Fletcher)
OLAC has now printed two issues of the Newsletter with the cost-saving thinner paper that has reduced the costs of printing the Newsletter "gratifyingly". There will be an attempt to keep the Newsletter to around 60 pages in length. As a result, the Conference reports have been split into two parts and divided between two issues, starting with December 2004; the remainder will be printed in June 2005. All the Conference reports are available now on the OLAC Website.
Some have asked in the past why there are no photographs in the Newsletter. The answer is: cost.
- Conference Report (P. Riva for M. Richard)
The 2004 Conference was a success, with all but one of the evaluations being resoundingly favorable about both the Conference and the programming.
- CAPC Report (L. Bodenheimer)
Please see the CAPC minutes elsewhere in this issue.
- Reports from Liaisons
- Association of Moving Image Archivists (S. Park-Primiano)
Please see the full report elsewhere in this issue.
- Music OCLC Users Group (R. Lubas for R. Freeborn)
Mary Huismann is the new MOUG/OLAC Liaison. She is the Music Cataloger at the University of Minnesota. She will be present at ALA Annual in Chicago.
The 2005 MOUG meeting will be held February 15-16 at the Fairmont Hotel in Vancouver, B.C.
- OCLC Report (J. Weitz)
Please see the full report elsewhere in this issue.
- CC:DA Report (G. de Groat)
Please see the full report elsewhere in this issue.
- MARBI Report (J. Attig)
Please see the full report elsewhere in this issue.
- LC Report (G. Kinnaly for D. Reser)
Gene outlined the LC report being circulated at the Conference, highlighting items of interest to OLAC, including the program for publishers to provide summary notes for children’s literature, development of an "access level" standard for most electronic resources cataloged by the Library of Congress, and the project to add 053 (call number) fields to music name authorities. Gene also clarified the use of 655 fields at LC. While some catalogers are putting them in on their own initiative, there is no official implementation of 655 form/genre heading at LC.
- New Business
- OLAC Election Report
There is one candidate for Vice President/President Elect: Steven Miller.
There is one candidate for Treasurer: Robert Bothmann.
OLAC members will receive ballots in March or early April. There will be room for write in candidates. [After Board discussion, it was decided no ballot would be distributed if candidates run unopposed].
- Adjournment
The Question and Answer Panel followed the meeting.
Respectfully submitted,
Amy Weiss
OLAC Secretary
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