BRASS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
ALA Annual Meeting
Washington, DC
Tuesday, June 26, 2007, 8-10 am
WCC (Convention Center) Room 144 B/C
Attendance:
Ryan Womack (Chair), Mark Anderson, Jennifer Boettcher, Bobray
Bordelon, Wendy Diamond, Christy Donaldson, Mary Gilles, Judith Faust, Greg
Fleming, Gene Hayworth, Patricia Kenly, Lydia LaFaro, Chris LeBeau, Stacey Marien,
Michael Oppenheim, Julia Martin, Stephanie Maatta, Rita Moss, Susan Neuman, Sylvia
Ortiz, Celia Ross, Ann Fiegen (recording)
1. Call to order
2. Welcome
Ryan Womack, Chair, welcomed the committee members and asked members to
only report action items or issues for discussion. Brief committee reports are to be
submitted to the Ann Fiegen, Secretary for the minutes.
3. Approval of agenda
4. Announcements -- Womack
a. Executive planning committee report
Visitor, Gillian Etienne, from Emerald expressed interest in a continuation of the
Emerald Research Award after next year.
A way to provide something tangible in
return for major BRASS sponsors could be a vendor panel review of10 minute
reports from BRASS’ major sponsors.
BRASS will submit a formal proposal to
RUSA board for a vendor panel.
b. RUSA board
Did not get to legal medical and business guidelines.
There will be 120 emerging leaders were selected.
Next year the process will differ.
Emerging leader applications will be submitted directly to the emerging leaders
program, and RUSA will get one pick. Forms will be available July 1, and the
deadline for submission is August 15. Ryan encouraged applicants to solicit letters
from BRASS leaders for nominations. Projects for emerging leaders are also being
solicited and due by late October. Let Ryan or Judith know if you are interested in
submitting a project.
Wiki..
RUSA sponsors a project at a cost of $1,000. BRASS can also submit project.
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5.
Old Business
a. Development issues—will be covered under section 8 of the agenda.
b. Archives-Greg Fleming
Greg visited the BRASS archives currently housed at UIU.
He compared the
finding aid against the archives.
There are a few gaps, some mislabeling (the
general membership meeting is really the general business meeting). Compiled list
of committee chairs from the rosters. The labeled year represents the beginning of
the appointment year.
Celia added that she has the Education Committee gaps, and was waiting
instructions on where to send because of archives transition.
Exec confirmed that
committees can send archives (Committee notebooks more than 2 years old) to
ALA. Gregg will send out information related to archives and send message to ALA
communities.
Committees should currently be archiving documents to the online
communities.
Exec encouraged members to send photos labeled with names to
collect a BRASS history.
