Business Meeting October 20, 2005 ILA GODORT

Government Documents Roundtable

of the Iowa Library Association

ILA GODORT Annual Meeting
October 20, 2005 7:30-8:25
Dubuque, Iowa

DRAFT Minutes

Attendees: Brett Cloyd (Vice-Chair, presiding), Liga Briendis, Maeve Clark, Barb Corson, Karen Dole, Janet Klaas, Marianne Mason, Michael May, and Mary McInroy

1. Treasurer’s Report

Balance as of 1/1/05 was $1404.51
Dues collected this year total $135 (February $80, April $45, June $5, August $5)
Total available funds are $1539.51
Less Expenses to date of $0
Total balance in account as of 9/30/05 $1539.51

2. Awards Committee Report

Barb Corson is current chair of the Awards Committee. She agreed to continue on as chair in 2006 since Becky Lutkenhaus will not be working in Iowa. According to by-laws, the Awards committee “Consists of the immediate past president (who serves as chair), the Secretary/Treasurer, and one additional member appointed by the Roundtable Chair.”
Promotional materials and an application form have been compiled Information is available on the GODORT web site: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/govpubs/ilagodort/fdlc/index.html. We plan to make an award to an Iowa GODORT member in 2006.

3. GODORT Bookmarks

The GODORT bookmarks will be distributed at conferences, workshops, etc. The bookmarks were delivered at the ILA conference and distributed at the GODORT sponsored concurrent session on the census. Leftovers are currently in Brett’s possession. He will make bookmarks available at the ILA planning retreat in Iowa City and at other professional activities during the course of the year.

4. Continuing education credit for GODORT events

Getting GODORT events on state’s CE calendar located at http://www.nwils.lib.ia.us/class.html

Becky had contacted Michele Leininger for guidance on how to get listed on calendar and ensure credit is offered for our events but never received a response.

Michele Leininger, Continuing Education Consultant
State Library of Iowa
E. 12th and Grand
Des Moines, IA 50319
515-281-6788
1-800-248-4483
Michele.Leininger@lib.state.ia.us

Barb Corson offered to work on this for us. She will have future GODORT events posted on the continuing education calendar and help make sure that attendees of our events get their continuing education credits. It was felt that adding GODORT events to the calendar will increase the group’s exposure to desired new audiences such as school and public library workers.

5. 2006 workshop and conference sessions

Ideas for 2006 Summer Workshop and sessions at 2006 ILA Conference. ILA planning retreat scheduled for Nov. 11.

We talked about programming that will be of interest to a various groups of library workers. The summer workshop will be in Iowa City on July 14, 2005. Ideas discussed included a tour of Old Capitol (which should be re-opened after the 2001 fire), an overview of medical and health information from a health sciences librarian, “Iowa Information on the web”, “50 sites in 50 minutes”, “format frustration” in terms of the Iowa Code and the possibility of a law librarian teaching use of the Iowa Code. The idea of visiting the Iowa City branch of the State historical society was later discussed.

We also discussed the idea of directing the organization’s focus to government information as a means of increasing interest and vitality to the group. People sometimes understand Government documents as something separate and different (i.e. via the depository programs), but everyone has public service questions that can be addressed through government information resources. Knowing about these sources improves services to patrons.

6. Nominations Committee Report

Election of officers for 2006

Chair: Brett Cloyd, University of Iowa Libraries
V ice-Chair: Cory Quist, State Law Library
Secretary/Treasurer: Michael May, Carnegie-Stout Dubuque Public Library

New Business

Marianne Mason had just returned from the Federal Library Depository Council meeting in Washington, D.C. She will be sending out information about the meeting in a future message to the GOVDOC-Iowa list.
GODORT decided to make a $100 contribution to the Iowa Leadership Institute.
Tom Keyser has been hired by the State Library to focus on the Iowa Publications On-line project.

The meeting was adjourned.

Respectfully submitted by Brett Cloyd

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