NT-ASIST Meeting March 7^th 2003

Members Present:

Janet Magherson

John Castledine

Abebe Rorissa

Doug Dunlap

Elise Lewis

Shawne Miksa

Diane Jenkins

Lisa Galaviz

1. Approval of the Minutes

Motion to approve: John Castledine

Second: Elise Lewis

2. Conference Funding Approaches:

• No funding available for travel or food
• Look into scholarship programs
• Get a team together to work at conference to get in free with discounted hotel rates
• Fundraising:
• T-shirts, bake sales
• Look into getting a booth for the Jazz Festival during the last week of April.

3. Recruitment Party:

• Assistance is needed in bringing items such as sodas, ice, paper goods, and finger food
• Copies of National and Student Membership forms will be made available
• People will be on hand to speak about the conference

4. Activities:

• Big events scheduled for the Spring semester might not be realistic since things are winding down
• Speaking in the Summer WebCT classes is a good way to recruit new members, especially those from out of town
• Sponsoring an in-house poster session contest with professors as judges would promote the Chapter as well as provide practice for the field
• Meeting after publication of First Monday, JASIST for an informal chat, inviting speakers
• Use this Summer to make preparations for the Fall job fair

5. Putting Ideas into Action:

• See how many doctoral students want to go to ASIS Poster Sessions, get panels, promote the exposure to prospective employers
• Get enough masters and doctoral students together to make a presence at ASIS
• Get the Village started
• Get speakers into the school to talk about jobs, employment, and other issues.
• Find out about other departmental list-serves
• Flyers around campus would be most effective advertisement for the recruitment party
• Currently this organization has a mailbox in the SLIS office, but not in the Union.

6. Other Ideas:

• PowerPoint presentations covering what is interesting and new in the field
• "Let's Talk" think groups, sponsor groups focused on ideas and research: "There isn't a lot of talking going on sometimes." The group would provide an opportunity to get up to date with what is happening in the field.
• Get more library people interested

7. Next Meeting:

The next meeting is scheduled for April 16 from 5:30-6:30 Digital Imaging Lab