B. Member-at-Large Angelina Joseph:

1. The Joint Reception took place at the Conference Center on July 20, 2002 from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. 209 people attended. Angelina thanked Innovative Interfaces for handling the entire cost and mentioned that TS SIS contributed money for corsages and boutonnieres for Innovative Interface's staff.
2. Because Kathleen Pecarovich could not attend the Annual Meeting, Angelina took charge of our Activities Area table. She asked for more volunteers.

IV. Standing Committees' Reports

Acquisitions Committee - Chair Karen Douglas reported on the successful new developments in acquisitions workshop given at American University and thanked those involved. She also announced that the Acquisitions Committee would be meeting Monday, July 22, 2002, at 7:00 a.m. in the Peabody Hotel and that the Acquisitions Roundtable would take place Tuesday, July 23 from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., also in the Peabody Hotel.

Cataloging and Classification Committee - Chair Nancy Poehlmann reported on the Administrative Sub-committee and that the survey on how paraprofessionals were used would be in LLJ. She announced that the Cataloging and Classification Roundtable would feature Susan Goldner and Richard Amelung speaking on revised AACR2 Chapter 12. The Beginning and Intermediate Cataloging for Law Librarians workshops were successful. To end her report, she reminded the membership that the Committee would meet at 7:00 a.m. Tuesday morning, July 23, 2002 in the Convention Center.

Preservation Committee - Chair Will Meredith said the preservation plan was still being studied and that he was resigning as Chair. A new Chair is needed. He mentioned there was a preservation related program at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, July 24, 2002. Chair JoAnn Hounshell asked that people interested in volunteering for Chair of the Preservation Committee contact her.

Serials Committee - Chair Andrea Rabbia reported 18 members attended last year's committee meeting. They:

• Distributed Marla Schwatz's Report as the BASIC Representative
• Discussed establishing an AALL representative to NASIG
• Discussed program ideas
• Selected a volunteer to coordinate the newly merged Exchange Committee with the Serials Committee. Andrea recognized the work of Paddy Satzer, who administered the Exchange and Duplicates program, which netted $1,074.
• One program proposal was accepted for this year, "Publication Patterns: Creating Connections in the Serials World."

V. Special Committee Reports

Awards Committee - Chair Lorna Tang reported that this year the Committee was responsible for the Chapman Award and the new educational grants, which are intended to cover registration to AALL workshops only. Grants were given to one new technical services librarian, Wendy Medvetz, for the acquisitions workshop, one non-academic technical services librarian, Cindy Buhi, for the basic cataloging workshop, and another to a not so new technical services librarian, Christy Ryan, who due to sudden illness, could not use it for the intermediate cataloging workshop. Lorna also thanked her committee for their hard work.

Education Committee - Chair, Patricia Sayre-McCoy, thanked the committee members (the TS SIS Committee Chairs and volunteers). Five TS programs were approved for this annual meeting plus one workshop. A proposed SECO workshop had to be withdrawn but will be submitted again. She also called for topics for next year and reminded that the Committee would meet on Wednesday, July 24, 2002, from 12:15 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Next year's Chair will be Kathy Winzer.

Nominations Committee - Chair, Betty Roeske, recognized the members of her Committee and stated the charge to find a diversification of candidates. Candidates should come from the private law libraries, court libraries, etc. and represent as many areas of the country as possible. She asked that everyone think of candidates when the call for nominations goes out.

VI. Other Reports

A. Christina Tarr, who was in charge of the membership survey, related 102 members or 16% of the membership, responded to the survey. Membership placed highest value on TSLL and expressed enthusiasm for the columns. Paper copy is still desired by some. The educational programs placed second and members wanted a broader mission, more local programs, more management programs, and better, more flexible program scheduling. Members also felt the strategic plan needed to be more concrete. Chris thanked Martin Wisneski for putting the survey on the TS SIS web site. She informed the membership that there would be a web site meeting on Tuesday, July 23, 2002, at 10:00 a.m.

B. Susan Goldner, the MARBI Representative, told us that during the January and June meetings MARBI had 17 proposals and 8 discussion papers. Topics included the changes to Formats for Holdings Data, adding URIs to various fields, additions to the character set, and changes to accommodate Faceted Application of Subject Terminology (FAST), an OCLC project. The most interesting topic was FRBR (Fundamental Requirements for Bibliographic Records). It is supposed to apply more of a user perspective and connecting links. Due to the AACR2 Chapters 9 and 12 revisions, MARC21 has under gone more changes, such as the repeatable 260s. These changes were published last October, but Library of Congress will not implement the AACR2 revision and the LCRIs until December. OCLC and RLN may redo their systems in the summer of 2003. We will be able to add serials fields to looseleafs and electronic resources when Library of Congress implements the changes in December. A summary and full report is on the TS SIS website.

C. Brian Striman, the Chair of the OBS/TS Joint Research Grant Committee, reported that Larry Dershem, recipient of a year 2000 grant has finished his report and Susan Goldner and Lorraine Lorne have a draft of the index to TSLL. Brian feels more public relations is needed. He also wants to step down. There is a possible replacement for 2003/4. Chris Long will write Brian's column. He announced that research grant applications were available at this meeting.

D. Joe Thomas, the TSLL editor, told the members that four issues of volume 27 of TSLL were printed and distributed. 800 copies of each cost $1.70 each for a total of $5,462. All columns will continue as replacement columnists have been found for all those leaving. There will be reporters at all the TS SIS programs at the AALL Annual Meeting. Cindy May, Martin Wisneski, and Linda Tesar were thanked.

E. Betty Roeske, who is in charge of the TS SIS list, reported that there are 569 people on the TS SIS list. She reminded the members that the list would auto-populate in August/September. If they do not wish to be on the list, they will have to unsubscribe themselves. She also requested that they check their e-mail addresses on AALLNET to be sure the correct ones are there.

F. Melody Lembke, the Annual Meeting Educational Programming Special Committee Representative informed us that a final report and recommendations, based on a survey of members on what they liked and disliked, had been sent to the AALL Board but had been tabled. The Educational Policy Committee and the SIS Counsel are to see it. The Committee made four recommendations:

4. The Professional Development Committee should look at the professional competencies criteria for evaluation of the programs.
3. Programs should proportionally represent the population of the membership of the SISs.
2. Job function should be added to the appointment guidelines for the AMPC to enhance the charge in the selection of members on the AMPC.
1. Committee meetings should be allowed during the programs but not during the plenary sessions, AALL Business Meeting, the President's Luncheon, and the ribbon cutting ceremonies.

The report will be posted on the TS SIS web site. Next year in Seattle there will be 30 minute, 60 minute, 75 minute, and 90 minute programs and only two plenary sessions. The thirty minute programs could possibly be used for reports, like that from the MARBI Representative, but would still need approval from the AALL Program Committee.

VII. New Business

A. All amendments to the TS SIS by-law quickly passed. No one wished to discuss them.

B. Gary Vander Meer noted that the TS SIS Handbook was not included in the overall handbook for the SISs given to all the SIS chairs. He was assured our handbook had been sent in time but somehow AALL Headquarters had dropped the ball.

C. Alva Stone sought confirmation that the SAC and CCDA reports would be given at the Cataloging and Classification Committee meeting. JoAnn reassured that this was so. She also confirmed the BASIC report would be in the next issue of TSLL.

D. JoAnn thanked Alva Stone for her work on the TS SIS Handbook, Martin Wisneski for his web work, Lorna Tang and the Awards Committee, Betty Roeske for answering calls for help, and Northwestern University.

VIII. Installation of new TS SIS Chair

A. JoAnn introduced the new Chair (Christina Tarr) and presented her with the book, Standard Parliamentary Procedure.

B. Chris thanked JoAnn and stated, as the Chair of the TS SIS, she would be looking into the TS SIS strategic plan and pushing educational opportunities. She also asked people to come up with ideas for programs and to attend the TS SIS Educational Programming Committee IX. Motion was made to adjoin and passed.

Respectfully submitted,
Pam Deemer
Secretary/Treasurer, 2001-2002