ALISS Meeting
Monday, January 5, 1998
3:30 p.m.

Present: Sam Webb, Laura McCarty, Tina Kay, Sarah Higgins, Sharwain Smith, Melissa Riesland, Bonnie Parks (SALA), Zoe Holbrooks, Stephanie Mattox, Sarah Hunt

Absent: Christa Bindel, Laura Tanji, Ken Thompson, Darlene Weber (ASIS)

Officers' Reports:

• SECRETARY'S REPORT:
  • Bulletin boards are in process of being rehabilitated. Laura McCarty and Melissa worked on them over break, and they should be complete soon.
  • Main bulletin board by lounge will be dedicated to professional interest, such as jobs, internships, calendars, outside lectures and colloquia, and outside classes. Secretary is responsible for this board's upkeep.
  • Two small bulletin boards in hallway will be dedicated to GPSS, Alumni, Curriculum, Colloquium, and DISC. The representatives of those interest groups will be responsible for their upkeep.
  • Student group info will be relegated to bulletin boards in Room 127.
  • Trivia and interest items will be relegated to the bulletin boards in the lounge.
  • Secretary will maintain bulletin boards in lounge and ALISS board in Room 127.

• VICE PRESIDENT'S REPORT:
  • End of Quarter party was attended by 20-25 people, including some faculty. A little over $100 was spent, well within budget.
  • The new issue deadline for Silverfish has yet to be set. Zoe suggested adding a director search report to Silverfish.

• TREASURER'S REPORT:
  • Tina would like to set up a more controlled accounting system for snacks, then reevaluate the service at the end of Winter Quarter. Moved by Melissa and seconded by Sam that snack system be given one more quarter then reevaluated. Snacks will now be stored in cupboards to prevent squirrel theft.
  • Tina reported that current budget is $771 in checking and $1900 in savings.
  • Zoe reported that lounge rehab. to date has cost around $100, with price of slipcovers still not known.
  • Sarah Hunt reported that, based on past records, cost of convocation will be from $100-$400.

• CURRICULUM REPORT:
  • Laura McCarty did research over break and has created a curriculum web page. She will provide the link for Sarah Hunt for the ALISS web page.

• GPSS REPORT:
  • Next meeting is January 14. Zoe suggested investigating obtaining weeded books from UW libraries. Currently these books are discarded. Can we retrieve them and donate them to charities, other libraries? What's the law on this?

Colloquium Report:

• The committee will be meeting in mid-January.

SALA:

• Bonnie Parks reported that SALA is in need of candidates for offices. Old terms have expired and only one student has indicated interest in filling vacancies. Zoe encouraged everyone to spread the word about vacancies. Next SALA meeting will be sometime in January.

Evening Degree Representative:

• Zoe will begin advertising this position over the news group this week. Hopefully a rep will be joining our meetings soon.

Lounge Lock-Up:

• This is not anyone's specific job responsibility. For now, we will try an honor system and see how it goes.

Opportunity Fair:

• Zoe reported that this will be a job/internship fair. We need a room, student participation, and employers.
• Sarah Hunt reported that SLA is interested in doing a student panel on directed field work/internships. Maybe this can be done as part of the opportunity fair. Zoe said we need to form a committee for this if it's going to happen. Indicate interest to her by Friday, January 10.

Convocation:

• Christa was absent, but Zoe suggested working closer with Alumni to plan convocation.
• Sarah Hunt inquired about relying more on Judith to plan this event. Sarah expressed concern about the amount of work and time needed to pull this off. Zoe said convocation is an ALISS creation, plus it isn't part of Judith's job description.

Next Meeting:

• 3:30 p.m. Monday, January 26 in study Room. Prepare your job descriptions for discussion. Bring your schedule so a regular meeting time can be agreed upon. Darlene will possibly have rooms reserved in the HUB by then for us to use for meetings.

Submitted by Melissa A. Reisland, ALISS Secretary
February 12, 1998