ALISS Minutes
Monday, February 2, 1998
3:30 p.m., Student Study Room
Present: Tina Kay, Sarah Higgins, Stephanie Mattox, Melissa Riesland,
Laura Tanji, Zoe Holbrooks, Laura McCarty, Sam Webber.
Officer Reports:
- SECRETARY (Melissa Riesland)
- TREASURER (Tina Kay)
- Restocking of snack supplies is finished. A note will be put on SUZ
127 black board telling people where the cash box is, since there seems to
be some confusion.
- Current balance in bank is $302 in checking and $1900 in savings.
Tina reported that expenses for the past month have been mostly for
snacks.
- GPSS (Stephanie Mattox and Sam Webber)
- Stephanie reported that the last Senate meeting featured our
director Betty Bengtson. She spoke about Suzzallo renovations. Now trying
to put a bill through the legislature to finance renovations in 1999
budget. Cost will be around $40 million.
- GPSS is looking into donation of UW Libraries discards to
prison or school libraries rather than sending to landfill.
- CURRICULUM(Laura McCarty)
- Laura reported that the Curriculum Committee has been meeting.
They recently resolved that new curriculum should be built based on the
Future Report, a sort of strawman model in preparation for the new
director. The committee is studying philosophies of other library
programs. They are looking for volunteers to evaluate other library
programs.
- Also, a survey will be coming out for the COA that will be
sent to faculty, staff and alumni.
- Zoe reported that ASIS will also be studying other Information
Science programs and is looking for volunteers.
- ADMISSIONS (Sharwain Smith)
- Sharwain could not attend, but sent news that the committee is
meeting and that there's nothing to report.
- ALUMNI (Christa Bindel)
- Christa could not attend. Zoe reminded everyone of the Winter
Dessert Soiree on Feb. 12, and the Mentoring Fair in March.
- DISC (Laura Tanji)
- Laura is considering changing her official title from
including "minority" to "students of color."
- Laura reported that there will be a DISC potluck at Professor
Fidel's in February.
- She is also investigating involvement with Mosaic, a
campus-wide minority group. She is seeking a volunteer to attend their
meetings as representative of GSLIS.
- And she is looking into the existence of a campus-wide
disabled-student group.
- Laura would like to have input on diversifying GSLIS. There is
a concern that the program is not diverse enough for the populations we
will eventually be serving.
- EVENING DEGREE REPRESENTATIVE (Brian DeBroux)
- Brian could not attend.
- Zoe reported that issues include: current scheduled colloquium
is not accessible to evening students; and 4-4:30 p.m. start time is not
accessible to many evening students.
- Sam reported that GPSS is looking into tuition equity for
night students. Because they can't take more than 7 credits, they pay more
per credit, so they are punished for being night students even though the
university is trying to encourage evening enrollment.
- Tina reported that 7 credit enrollment still puts a student
within the range of full time, therefore qualifying for childcare
assistance.
- Zoe reported that Brian's e-mail address is bdebroux@u.
Colloquium:
- Sarah reported that the committee will be meeting Feb. 3 to
decide whether or not to continue colloquiums since the enrollment has
been very low. Questions they are asking include: Is the time bad? Is the
subject matter interesting? Sarah would like to canvas the student body
before killing the program. Laura McCarty asked if we could advertise to
other departments to draw more attendees.
Job Descriptions and Bylaws:
- Zoe moved and Laura McCarty seconded that Silverfish editing and
ALISS
webmastering become volunteer positions, no longer part of a specific job
description, unless an officer really wanted to do it.
- Zoe reported proposed revisions to the bylaws, mostly cosmetic. For
example, President's job description should include required attendance at
faculty meetings. Others: Silverfish and webmastering removed from Vice
President job description; moving officer elections to Spring quarter;
adding student representatives for SALA, SLA, and ASIS.
- Laura Tanji reported that she is considering changing job title.
Issues are whether to use "student of color" or "minority," and whether
to add "disabled."
- Zoe said she would type up proposed changes for review.
Misc.:
- Sam said that no new-student orientation had been done for Winter
quarter, and that we need to make sure one is done for Spring quarter.
- Zoe asked if Silverfish should return to hard copy. There has been
low readership online and complaints of missing the hard copy. Zoe asked
if it is worth the expense. No decision was made.
- Sam moved and Laura McCarty seconded that ALISS should contribute
$100 toward a memorial for Delores' mother who died recently of cancer.
Zoe reminded everyone to sign the card for Delores in the student lounge.
Director Search:
- Zoe reminded everyone to check out the links on the ALISS page.
- King is considering applying for directorship. Lester has been
withdrawn from consideration.
- Zoe reminded everyone of opportunities to meet director candidates
this month.
Opportunity Fair:
- Zoe reported that 12 people volunteered to help with the Opportunity
Fair. It will take place Spring quarter.
Fundraising:
- Discussed whether book sale should be ALISS only fundraising
activity. Decided that Secretary should gather a committee to plan Spring
book sale.
- Secretary said she would check into price of professionally printed
signs and banners that would be reusable.
Convocation:
- Zoe reported that Betty Bengtson formed a Convocation Committee.
Christa Bindel will be the ALISS representative.
- Zoe reported that Professor Hiatt is retiring and will be honored at
Convocation.
- Zoe reported that Betty will be thanked for her interim directorship
of GSLIS at Convocation.
Next Meeting will be Monday, February 23, at 3:30 p.m. in the Student
Study Room.
Submitted by Melissa A. Riesland, ALISS Secretary
February 12, 1998