Committee Reports, 2005-2006

Archives
The Committee Chair continues to gather and organize SANDALL materials.  Items added to the archives include meeting minutes; newsletter issues; handouts from the brown bag luncheons; 2006 membership directory; program materials from the 2006 All-California Joint Institute (3/31-4/1/06); ballot materials and candidate statements for the 2005 special election to fill the Vice President position, and Board election for 2006-2007; materials for a proposed bylaws change for 2006 regarding distribution of election ballots; a listing of the 2006 SANDALL grants recipients; and various announcements from the Board.

Submitted by Margaret McDonald,
University of San Diego Legal Research Center
Chair, SANDALL Archives Committee
June 8, 2006

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Constitution and By-Laws
The Committee consisted of three members: John Adkins, Chair; and Leigh Inman and Thomas Champagne.

The Committee was requested to propose a bylaws amendment to allow electronic voting for SANDALL officers. The Committee drafted a proposal (see below), and it was sent to the membership for a vote. The results of the vote will be given at the Annual Business Meeting at the end of June.

The proposed amendment follows:

ARTICLE 9. NOMINATIONS AND ELECTIONS

d) Mailing of Ballots. Ballots including the names of all persons nominated by the Nominations Committee and/or petition shall be [emailed or, if the member has no email,] mailed [by regular mail] to the membership at least sixty (60) days prior to the annual meeting.

For the Committee,
John Adkins, Chair

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Employment
Employment Chairperson, Ellie Slade continues to post positions from the Southern California region that are of interest to the membership. In addition, Ellie sweeps the internet on a weekly basis culling for new positions to post the chapter's website. This last year the job market for librarians in San Diego has been stagnant, but Ellie is beginning to see new positions slowly appear as members retire.

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Government Relations
No report submitted (Joan Allen Hart)

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Grants
The Grants Committee consisted of Chair, Karla Castetter, Thomas Jefferson School of Law and Kim Kane, San Diego Public Law Library.

SANDALL provided two grants to attend the ALL California Institute held in Sacramento March 31 to April 1, 2006. There were initially three applicants for a grant to the Institute.  However, two applicants withdrew their requests.  SANDALL awarded one $300.00 grant to Ruth Levor, University of San Diego to attend the Institute.

SANDALL provided two grants to cover the full $510.00 registration cost to attend the AALL Conference in St. Louis July 8 to 12, 2006.  There were three applicants for the AALL grants.  Grants were awarded to Pat Mundy, Vista Branch, San Diego County Public Law Library and to Valerie Railey, U.S. Courts Library.

A total of $1,320.00 was awarded during the past year.

Respectfully submitted,
Karla Castetter, Chair
SANDALL Grants Committee

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Internet
(Report not submitted) Carol Hyne continues to do an excellent job maintaining and edited the SANDALL webpage.

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Membership
Annette Jackson took over mid-stream from Ruth Levor, the former SANDALL Treasurer. Annette reports that there are 106 members with approximately 10 new members during the past year.

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Newsletter
Amy Moberly is continuing to do an excellent job publishing the newsletter. The newsletter has come out every 2 months since September. Five editions of the newsletter came out in the last year. The treasurer's report details the finances connected with the newsletter.

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Nominations
This has been a busy year for the Nominations Committee. In late 2005, we held a special election to replace Margarita Bull who resigned as the Chapter's Vice-President.

We were very lucky this year to have an able and willing group of candidates to run for the 2006/2007 Board. Thank you for volunteering.

Thanks to Betsy Chessler for her assistance on the committee. We would also like to thank Morrison and Foerster for paying for the envelopes and postage for the Board election this spring.

The Nominations Committee is pleased to announce the results of the
election for the 2006-2007 SANDALL Board:

President - Brian Williams
Vice-President - Pat Rusheen
Treasurer - Joshua Jones
Secretary - Tiffany O'Neil

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Programs
SANDALL sponsored 9 meetings, or events, during the 2005-06 calendar. In addition, SANDALL sponsored and participated in the Tri-Chapter NOCALL, SCALL and SANDALL Institute in Sacramento in March 2006. The two day Institute had pre-workshops sponsored by CCLL, Technical Services Librarians, Lexis and Westlaw. The Friday and Saturday Institute included speakers from the California State government as well as the Head State Librarian.

Below is a list of the SANDALL sponsored events for the 2005-06 year:

1. Farewell luncheon to Amy Hale Janeke at San Diego County Public Law Library
2. Brown bag talk by San Diego County Counsel attorney and past SD Bar Association who is also a cartoonist (Luce Forward)
3. Annual Holiday Party— University of San Diego 's Betty Kroc Peace and Justice Institute
4. Brown bag with Salvador R. Torres, local Chicano artist, master muralist and community activist on San Diego history, public art and San Diego urban neighborhood redevelopment issues at Seltzer, Caplan, McMahon and Vitek
5. NOCALL SCALL SANDALL Tri-Chapter Institute in Sacrament on California State government resources
6. Brown bag at Thomas Jefferson School of Law on the Patriot Act with Kevin M. Keenan, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego and Imperial Counties , and John Parmley, Assistant United States Attorney in the Counter Terrorism Division.
7. Brown bag at Morrison Forester re advanced Google searching with librarian Betsy Chessler
8. SLA-SANDALL Meeting on Interviewing and looking for work at special libraries and academic libraries with Melinda Beardt and UCSD Assistant Head Librarian for hiring
9. Annual Business Meeting, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter and Hampton

Respectfully submitted,
Robert Richards

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Treasurer's Report

Submitted by Annette Jackson
June 22, 2006