FoKAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CONFERENCE CALL

Feb. 6, 2012 @ 2 pm ET/ 1 pm CT

M-I-N-U-T-E-S

OPENING

Chairwoman Enders convened the conference call meeting of the committee at 2:05 pm, ET.

MEMBERS PRESENT

Naulayne Enders, Matt Onion (late joining conf-call), Margo Hamm, Judith Riney, Angela Morris, and Betina Gardner

MEMBERS UNABLE TO TAKE PART

Adam Murray and Paul Tippey

MINUTES

Margo made the following correction to December minutes: Margo is chair of the FoKAL Information Literacy subcommittee, not the Advocacy subcommittee. Hearing no further additions or corrections, Naulayne asked consent of the members for approval.  Dec. 6 minutes were “approved” as corrected.

COMMITTEE UPDATES

Advocacy – No report

Information Literacy – Members discussed ILC’s proposed Summit session, “Best Practices for LibGuides”.  They agreed to the following:

• That the session would be beneficial to the group as a whole;
• That the session be scheduled for 4:15 pm on June 6 due to the packed Summit agenda.

SUMMIT 2013 – June 6-7, General Butler SRP

Subsequent to the committee updates, members further agreed to the following Summit-related programming and business matters:

Action Plans:

• That the Action Plans presentation be moved up on the afternoon Summit agenda;
• That each Action Plan group be assigned a recorder;
• That each recorder would be responsible for compiling the group’s suggestions/ideas into an e-document for later email distribution to all Summit attendees;
• That the e-documents distributed to the attendees would encourage them to apply these ideas taken home from the Summit.

Bylaws Changes: (in addition to the rotation of the office of EC Chair as discussed at Dec. meeting)

• That the EC Chair be given the authority to appoint a “treasurer”;
• That the treasurer “keep track of the money that the EC’s responsible for” and make regular treasurer’s reports;
• That the EC proceed and draft the change to the bylaws;
• That the EC present the proposed bylaws change (including the one for rotation of EC chairs) to the FoKAL directors/deans for approval;
• That if consensus of directors/deans is not reached, an ad hoc (bylaws) committee be appointed at Summit;

Naulayne agreed to put something together on the (bylaws) change proposals before the March 6 EC meeting.

LIBRARY DISCOUNT NETWORK – Anne Abate  

Anne reported the following:

• Main Summit presenter, Sue Polanka has asked for more direction for her talk on e-books;
• EC members came with 7 topic focus areas---

1.       Marketing e-books, particularly to faculty;

2.       Best practice for access and discover(ability);

3.       Weeding e-book collections and records;

4.       Future predictions for e-books;

5.       E-book platforms i.e., should we subscribe to consistency in platforms and/or consistency with users?

6.       How to look at purchasing individual copies which usually have hidden fees;

7.       Lending readers.

OTHER

Naulayne reported the following:

• Anne will send out a “test” registration to us next week;
• Ditto on the Summit budget;
• Our bank account balance is $525.67;
• Better World Books wants to use FoKAL as a case study for BWB’s services;
• BWB’s proposal will be presented at Summit and voted on by the FoKAL membership;
• “Lunch and Learn” at UK/SLIS is on for Feb. 8 from noon until 1:00 pm. 

ADJOURNMENT @ 2:40 pm ET

NEXT MEETING

·        By phone on Mar. 6 @ 1:30 pm ET / 12:30 pm CT;

·         Face-to-Face on April 17 @ Asbury Seminary beginning at 11 am.

Respectfully submitted by Matt Onion, Secretary on 3/4/13 and with thanks to Naulayne for her notes.