» Membership: As of May 30,1997, there were 596 members in the Technical Services SIS. Hopefully, we will have more members by September 30 of this year, when we will receive a dues credit of $6.00 for each Technical Services SIS member listed in the AALL database. Membership dues are an important source of income for the Technical Services SIS. As of September 30,1996 our membership totalled 564, and we accordingly received a credit of $3,384.00 on our September statement.

» Election Results: The election for the 1997/1998 Executive Board offices was conducted by mail ballot. Ballots with accompanying biographical information and statements by the candidates were mailed to members the week of March 17, 1997. Ballots returned by the deadline of April 20 were counted. 601 ballots were mailed and 196 were returned by the deadline for a 32 percent return rate. Election results were:

Vice Chair/Chair Elect:
Joseph W. Thomas

Member-at-Large:
Mary Burgos

» Financial Status: I would like to thank our previous Secretary-Treasurer, Virginia Bryant, for sparing the time last summer to work with the Association's Director of Finance and Administration, Steve Ligda, to resolve some discrepancies between the financial statements provided by Headquarters and the information available to Virginia. I very much appreciated Virginia's efforts to resolve some problems and to establish our balance as of the end of the AALL fiscal year which runs from October 1 through September 30.

At the beginning of October, we started with $14,579.88. From October 1,1996 - May 30,1997, our income has consisted of $1,320.00 from the 44 currently paid up subscribers to the Exchange of Duplicates program. This past year we have had fewer members in this program. Hopefully this will change in the coming year and with the proposed move to provide the information via the Web, we will be able to save some money on printing and postage costs. As of May 30,1997 Headquarters had reimbursed members $543.25 for such expenses.

Based on these expenses for previous years, I expect to spend another $500 or so on such expenses. The amount largely depends on the extent to which our member's institutions provide photocopy, fax, telephone and postage without seeking reimbursement from our funds.

So far this year our expenses have been modest. The next largest expense after those associated with Exchange of Duplicates is $381.64, associated with the printing and mailing of election ballots. Also, under expenses, in October, 1996 we were reimbursed $2,500.00 by Innovative Interfaces for the cost of food at last year's TSIS/OBS etc. reception.

Before the end of September, I expect that we will need to meet the following expenses:

» TSIS share for printing and distribution Technical Services Law Librarian: To date $3,373.61 has been reimbursed for printing and postage costs associated with the first three issues of volume 22 of Technical Services Law Librarian. This amount is offset by $646.50 of income from annual subscriptions to the newsletter. After the costs are available for issue four, we will work with the Chair of OBS-SIS to share the cost of volume 22 and Steve Ligda will make the appropriate transfers of funds by the end of September.

» Signs: Jim Mumm ordered more signs for meetings: $254

» Post-it-Notes: Our sales item for the Baltimore meeting cost approximately $500.

» Baltimore TS-SIS Reception: Flowers for the III staff members cost approximately $100.

» Technical Services SIS Brochure: Printing costs were approximately $333.

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