SANDALL
Board Meeting Minutes

July 2, 2008

Location: Morrison & Foerster

Board members in attendance:
John Adkins, Betsy Chessler, Leigh Inman, Gina Catalano

Meeting called to order at 9:05am

•  Old Business

•  Treasurer's Report

•  waiting for one check to clear before closing the Bank of America account and opening the new Washington Mutual accounts.

• Balances:
  Checking: $7,210.78
  Savings: $3,832.14
  7 month 4.35% CD: $7,580.79
• Current membership: 121

 

•  Budget Reallocation

• Food & Beverage Budget:
  •  Rename Food & Beverage budget to reflect money included for Venue.
  •  Note that this budget is separate from the Programs budget.
• PR Budget:
  •  Need to increase PR budget to accommodate focusing on outreach this year
  •  New member packages with promo materials
  •  Presence at AALL
  •  Order some type of promo/giveaway item to have at exhibit table
  •  Money to increase PR budget could come from general fund

• Chapter VIP Program
  •  Board members to think about possible invitees from the legal community. Law professors, someone from County Council, etc.
  •  SANDALL will be responsible for paying for transportation and accommodations, AALL will pay for registration.
  •  Need SANDALL members who attend AALL to act as chaperones for VIP
  •  Need to figure out the budget to see if it is possible.
  •  All Board Members voted to pursue sending a VIP AALL.
  •  Each Board Member will nominate one potential VIP for the program
  •  If SANDALL members would like to nominate someone for the chapter VIP program, please contact John Adkins by Sept. 1 st .

•  New Business

• New Committee Chairs
  •  Constitution & Bylaws: Isabel Eustaquio
  •  Employment: Arnold Josafat
  •  Grants: Brent Naritomi
  •  Library School Liaison: Kelly Keach
  •  Still need Chair for Government Relations
  •  Thank you to all of the outgoing Chairs, Ellie Slade, Joan Allen-Hart, Arnold Josafat and John Adkins for all of their hard work. Welcome to the new Committee Chairs!
  
• Proposal for New Committees
  
  Long Range Planning Committee
  
  •  John would like to bring back the Long Range Planning Committee
  •  New Committee would set goals for the organization
  •  Chair will be Past President for continuity
  •  It will be a standing committee with a 2 year commitment
  
  • Board voted unanimously to have a Long Range Planning Committee
    
•  Sheila Corman will act as Chair since she is past president; action items for the Committee will come directly from the Board.


• Outreach Committee
  
  •  Members go out and speak to schools, organizations, career fairs, etc. to promote law librarianship. Create promotional materials for law librarianship.
•  Possibly add this committee to the PR committee since roles will be similar. Could have co-chairs and define roles of each for PR and Outreach.

• Board voted unanimously to go forward with Outreach & PR Committee

•  Tenth Anniversary Celebration

Ideas to celebrate our 10 th Anniversary:

Themes

•  Aluminum is the traditional 10 th Anniversary gift. Possibly have a theme around recycling and being a green organization.

•  Paper is also a traditional 10 th Anniversary gift.

Challenges

•  Challenge the membership to an "Outreach Challenge", each member personally challenged to spread the word about law librarianship and what we do.

•  Challenge to the Board

•  Get 10 new members
•  Provide 10 Grants
•  Give away $10 at each event
•  Do a "top 10 list of things you never thought a librarian would do" at each event.
•  Contact all SANDALL Members in 10 groups of 10

 

•  Programs

Fall Workshop Ideas

•  Have Fall Workshop at the Marina Village Conference Center
•  Theme: "The New Librarian"
•  Find a Library School Professor to speak
•  Gina to contact Professor Connie Costantino to see if she would be interested in speaking
•  Find a job recruiter to speak on what skills are expected for new librarians
•  Possibly have a panel of Library School Students
•  Find someone to discuss the New Roles in Librarianship
•  Have a technology demonstration

•  Board voted unanimously to go forward with Marina Village as the venue.

-box lunch
-Charge $45 members/ $50 non-members
-Don't know what speaker fees will be
-Betsy will book venue for 9/19/08
-Need to also check SCALL's schedule

Brown Bags

-no plans yet - board should email ideas.
-Need to think of people to take one and run with it; maybe committee members could each take one.
-Possible ideas: China law, dog law, elder law, pro bono projects, poetry, California law author.

Holiday party

Possible venues:
-Children's museum- more expensive than anticipated at $2500 for venue and additional $400 for gallery viewing.
-Mingei museum
-Looking at settings in Balboa Park, other museums

Spring Social/Special Events-

-Want to do outdoor event at a park, beach, etc. with contests, kite flying, etc.
-Saturday event
-Perhaps put the auction online and open it to SCALL, SLA, etc. -Tentatively-Mission Bay Park in May, no entrance fee, potluck.

 

•  Chapter Communications

•  Defer chapter communications agenda item until next meeting.

Next meeting: August 20, 2008, 12:00pm-1:30pm at Thomas Jefferson School of Law.

Meeting adjourned 11:05am

Respectfully submitted,
Gina S. Catalano
SANDALL Secretary