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2013 Business Meeting Minutes
Monday, July 15, 2013
Welcome by Jason Sowards
- Welcomed first-time attendees and non-RIPS members who are at breakfast and encouraged them to join RIPS
- Mentioned that there will be a call for volunteers to RIPS committees during the summer
- Thanked Melissa Serfass for getting the pens and styluses for giveaways and arranging coverage for the RIPS table in the Exhibit Hall and for CONELL
I. RIPS Board Projects
- Completed an inventory of the RIPS Strategic Plan to determine what had been accomplished and what still needed to be done
- Uwe and the new Board are tasked with developing the new strategic plan
- Donation of $100 to SR-SIS Book Drive
- Donation of $100 to the Woodland Park Zoo to adopt a penguin as is our tradition
II. Treasurer’s Report (Karin Johnsrud)
- Balance as of 5/31/2013 – 25,793.88
- Revenue – 10,380.00
- Expenses – 9,484.57
- None of the Annual Conference expenses and most of the grant reimbursement are not factored into this balance
- More detailed Report is available on the RIPS Blog
III. Programming (Uwe Beltz)
- New process for programming this year – SISs did not get to review and rank program proposals as in past years
- Only able to sponsor one program
- Chosen by a Program Sub-Committee (since Uwe had proposed a program) – iCame, iSaw, iConquered: Our Year with the iPad – Tuesday, July 16 at 2:30
- Three Roundtables
- Distance Education – held Sunday, July 14th
- Patron Services – held Sunday, July 14th
- Research Instruction – will be held Monday, July 15th at 11:45
- Any RIPS members with programs they want to mention
- Jenny Wondracek – Emerging Technologies and Teaching for the 21st Century Librarian [Tuesday, July 16th at 2:30]
- Jason Sowards – Success in the Classroom: Measuring Student and Teacher Performance [Tuesday, July 16th at 2:30]
- Question about timing conflicts in scheduling roundtables
- RIPS Research Instruction Roundtable was held at same time as ALL-SIS Legal Research Skill Roundtable
- Jason responded that there are very few timeslots to choose from and not all information is known when timing decisions have to be made
- Suggested that this be brought up at the AALL AMPC Open Forum
IV. Distance Education (Jenny Wondracek)
- Founding year of the committee
- Roundtable was very successful with good turnout and lively discussion
- Projects
- Survey of current distance education opportunities at law schools
- Bibliography of distance education resources and articles
- Repository of distance education materials
- New Chair is Shawn Friend
- Anyone interested in volunteering should contact Shawn
V. Grants (Lynn Murray)
- Grants this year were raised to $850 and could be used to cover any AALL expenses, not just registration
- Application were again low for law firm librarian grant
- Winners of the six grants
- Academic—public services – Donna S. Williams
- Academic—technical services – Edward T. Hart
- State/court/county – Jenny. R. F. Fujinaka
- Law firm – Abby Walters
- New Librarian – Ashley Ames Ahlbrand
- Student – Avery Le
- Thanks given to the members of the grants committee
VI. Legal Research Teach-In (Laura Ax-Fultz)
- 21st National Teach-In Kit released –
- Include 13 submissions
- Organized into new categories – Presentations and course materials, Handouts and guides and Games
- Encouraged members to be ready for the next call for submissions in the spring
- Considering changing the call for submissions to be more of a rolling deadline because no longer producing the kit in print
- Thanks given to committee and special thanks to Maribel as Webmaster
VII. Nominations (Maureen Cahill)
- Thanks to the committee for their work in gathering nominations
- Full slate of qualified candidates
- Wants to work on having a higher percentage of members vote
VIII. Patron Services (Jessica Randall)
- Roundtable was successful and had good discussion
- Topics included security, non-traditional circulation services and how to keep statistics
- Encouraged members to volunteer for the committee and to suggest project ideas
IX. Patron Services and Recruitment (Melissa Serfass)
- CONELL Marketplace – 50 people stopped by the RIPS table – great turnout
- Giveaways this year highly successful, especially the penguin pen
- Thanks for Jessie and Kelly for their work on committee
X. Research Instruction (Marc Silverman)
- Legal research textbooks book reviews were done again this year (done every other year to allow for plenty of books to be available for review)
- Added specialized and topical research texts, not just general texts
- 12 new texts to review
- 8 completed and posted
- 4 more will be posted soon
- Roundtable is scheduled for the afternoon – hoping for a good turnout
XI. RIPS-Blog (Jennifer Prilliman)
- Blog readership has been steady over the past year
- Recognized and thanked the bloggers for the past year
- New Blog editor – Michele Thomas
- New bloggers – Jamie Baker and Susan David deMaine
- Returning bloggers – Thomas Sneed, Shawn Friend and Catherine Deane
- Projects for coming year include a review blog policies and the succession guidelines
XII. Web Page (Maribel Nash)
- Completed the migration to the new CMS
- Requested suggestions for new organization of material on website
- Thanked Liz Johnson for her help with the webpage
XIII. Open Floor
- Jason Sowards is the incoming chair of AALL Council of SISs
- Serves as liaison between SISs and the AALL Executive Board
- Mentions that if RIPS has any concerns we want brought up to Board, we can contact Jason
- Raffling of stuffed penguin
- For donation to Woodland Park Zoo, we received a stuffed penguin
- Winner – Robert Ey of Pepper Hamilton
XIV. Passing of Puron
- Jason passed Puron to Uwe
- Uwe thanked Jason for his work over the past year
- Uwe welcomed the new Board members
- Jenny Wondracek, Vice Chair/Chair-Elect
- Austin Williams, Secretary/Treasurer
- Sarah Glassmaker, Member-at-Large
- Uwe is looking forward to a busy and productive year