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EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING
ALA ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Chicago, Illinois
Saturday, June 25, 2005


Minutes


  1. Call to Order (R. Freeborn)
    President Robert Freeman called the meeting to order at 3:00 p.m. Board members present: Amy K. Weiss, Rebecca Lubas, Lisa Bodenheimer, Robert Freeborn, Jain Fletcher, Cathy Gerhart.

  2. Secretary's Report (A. Weiss)
    The minutes from the Board meeting held at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts were approved.

  3. Treasurer's Report (R. Freeborn for R. Bothmann)
    The Treasurer's Report is available in the June 2005 OLAC Newsletter.

  4. Newsletter Editor's Report (J. Fletcher)
    Newsletter Editor Jain Fletcher has produced a document showing Newsletter production costs from June 2002 through March 2005. The average cost per page in the Newsletter is $.035, and the total costs of production are about $1700 per issue. Jain suggested that because there would not be a lot of content at the end of the year in this non-Conference year, to save money, it would be advisable to combine Newsletter issues 3 and 4 (September and December). There is a past precedent for doing this.

    There was a motion to combine Newsletter issues, which was seconded and approved by the Board.

    The OLAC Newsletter Style Sheet produced by Jain was discussed.

    It was also suggested that OLAC may wish to set word limits for the OLAC Conference reports, both as an aid to authors and to the Newsletter Editor.

  5. CAPC Report (L. Bodenheimer)
    Kelley McGrath will be granted a four-month leave of absence from CAPC.

    The Board has asked that Lisa Bodenheimer continue as CAPC Chair.

    The possibility of adding more members to CAPC in 2008 when Resource Description and Access (RDA) is issued was discussed, as was collaboration with MLA, MAGERT, and other bodies to create rules of practice after the publication of RDA.

    For the full CAPC report in this issue.

  6. Closed Session
    Discussion of the forthcoming OLAC Conference.

  7. Adjournment
    The meeting adjourned at 5:00 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,

Amy K. Weiss
OLAC Secretary

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