Oklahoma Library Association
University and College Division
September 22, 2004
Rose State College LRC
Midwest City, Oklahoma

Attending the meeting were:

Melissa Huffman (Rose State College)
Joan Singleton (Bartlesville Public Library)
Evlyn Schmidt, Chair (OPSU)
Cathy Blackman (Cameron)
Kay Boies (Exec. Director)
Susan Jeffries (NWOSU)
Cathy Van Hoy (ODL)
David Oberhelman (OSU)
Lynn McIntosh (Ardmore Public Library System)
Michele Seikel (OSU)
Cokie Anderson (OSU)
David Oberhelman (OSU)

Minutes

Evlyn Schmidt asked for corrections to the July minutes, and Susan Jeffries was added to the attendees. The minutes were approved as corrected.

Salary Survey

Mary Evans has sent the salary survey out already. The deadline for responses is Sept. 24th. She has already posted it on the OLA website.

Officer nominations

Evlyn asked Cathy Blackman to chair the Nominating Committee, as Vice-Chair. Kay Boies gave Evlyn a printout of new members. Nominations are due to Kay on Dec. 1st.

Silent Auction Basket Ideas

This year, smaller baskets that won’t be so expensive and can be purchased by regular people (poor librarians) are preferred, so David will coordinate a small basket with the Star Wars theme, and Evlyn will coordinate the Round Table basket.

Workshop

Melissa Huffman has secured the Tom Steed Center Rooms 203, 205, and the Auditorium for Friday, Jan. 28th. We will push back the start time to 10:00 in case of bad weather. Evlyn will present our proposal to the Executive Board on Oct. 15th for approval.

Cokie spoke to Molly Murphy, and she suggested Pat Weaver-Myers to do the overview of ILL systems, since she has done research and written on ILL. Evlyn will contact Pat. Molly will speak on CLIO. Originally, Marc Carlson of TU was to do a session on ILL basics for non-ILL people, but Johnny Johnson can do that. David will ask him to work copyright issues into the overview, too. Mary Hardin will speak on autographics and ILL in public libraries. Michele will also ask her to describe the ILL services that ODL offers. Cheryl Suttles will speak on DOCLINE. Cathy Blackman or an ILL staffer from Cameron will speak on ARIEL, and Dana Belcher of East Central will speak on union listing in Oklahoma.

We will ask all of our presenters to produce handouts or training materials. Evlyn will suggest that Pat could bring a map of the OCLC regional groups, to explain the organization. We should promote the AMIGOS session at OLA in 2005 during the workshop

The members were asked to think about goals and objectives for the workshop request, and contact David. Melissa will contact City Bites to cater, and Evlyn will asked Elaina Stewart to develop the flyer. Our suggested title: “ILL for Everybody”.

Tentative Workshop Schedule 

OLA programming

Buried Treasures: National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum – Jonathan Nelson. Cokie has confirmed his participation. He’ll talk about their research center.

Historical medical instruments, OU Health Sciences – Marty Thompson, director. Evlyn is his contact.

Mabee-Gerits Center Museum – Linda Taylor contacted him and visited the Museum. Michele will ask her to contact him again and confirm, and ask him if the Museum has a research component.

Computer Security

Anne Prestamo will do a session, and Andy Peters of Pioneer may also speak. David will try to contact him.

Contributed papers

David said the contributed papers/posters call is out via e-mail and the web. The deadline to apply is Nov. 12th. Kay wants to know what we’ll have by Dec. 1st for the conference preview. Cokie said the SLIS alumni were pleased with the idea of highlighting the winner of their own paper award, and we want to try to schedule the winner to read. David will talk with Susan Wright about this. He wants to promote more papers, particularly non-academic.

UCD has been asked to co-sponsor a feng shui session by Beth Avery. The subtitle is: creating positive relationships between patrons and the library. The group agreed to co-sponsor.

Preconferenc

Joan Singleton attended from SMART (Administrative Round Table), which is co-sponsoring the preconference. Linda will ask Ken Bierman if he has a preference on a title for it. We could also ask Linda Edmondson to speak. Evlyn will pursue her. Melissa Huffman suggested Jean Webb, Dean of Students at Rose State, as another good speaker. Evlyn will contact Debra Engel about speaking in the morning. She can ask the Support Staff Roundtable to participate also. Earlene Piercy (branch manager of the Davis Public Library), would also be good. They could act as a panel, and answer questions. Other possibilities for the panel: Sharlotte Riegel (Ardmore Library System), Carla Hickey (Stillwater Public Library)

Tentative Preconference Schedule 

Our next meeting will be on Nov. 17th at TU at 1:00.

Respectfully submitted,
Michele Seikel, Secretary, OLA UCD