OLA University and College Division Meeting
September 6, 2005
McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa

Meeting Attendees:

Parker Atkins, OCU
Cathy Blackman, Cameron
Marc Carlson, TU
Helen Clements, OSU
Jo Daniels, TU
Mary Evans, TU
Susan Jeffries, NWOSU
Gina Minks, TU
Michele Seikel, OSU
Linda Taylor, OSU

Cathy called the meeting to order at 1:05 p.m.

Program Goals

Cathy handed out copies of the OLA Program Goals.  She went over each of the goals and pointed out that advocacy was going to be especially important this year because of the turnover in the Oklahoma legislature.   There are about 1500 people on the OLA membership list and it is important that they get more involved in OLA.  One way that OLA is going to try to achieve this is to make local arrangements really visible to help first time conference attendees.  Jo suggested that perhaps there should be a group dedicated to helping first timers fell more comfortable at the conference.  Cathy said that the conference registration form will have a place on it for first time attendees to mark if they want to have a mentor for the conference.  The Program Committee will then try to match people up.

OLA Conference

Cathy reported that the Program Committee loved the idea of having the poster sessions in its own room at the Annual Conference.  The Program Committee is also looking for an opening speaker.  They are currently exploring the possibility of having either Bill Barnes or Gene Ambaum, creators of the library comic strip “Unshelved”, as the Banquet speaker.

Cathy asked Michelle about the paper sessions.  Michelle, who had agreed to chair the paper submission subcommittee at the August 10 meeting, said that nothing had been sent out yet because Kay Boies said that the cost would be too much to bulk mail the flyer.  Kay had suggested that Michelle send it out on the OLA listserv.  Several people mentioned that they weren’t on the OLA listserv and weren’t even sure how to get on it.  Parker explained that it was on Yahoo!Groups and Michelle said that she would check with Charles Brooks about trying to put something on the website so people would know where to sign up for the listserv. 

From the Executive Board Meeting

Cathy announced that the OLA Executive Board would like to have people use automatic payment for expenditures relating to the Centennial Committee.

Buried Treasures

Gina reported that she had spoken to Richard Parker, Assistant Director of Tulsa City County Library, and he thought it would be a great idea to highlight the new Native American and Hispanic Research Centers.  Gina will contact the individual librarians at these respective branches and see if they would be willing to present the “Buried Treasures of the Tulsa City County Library.”  She will also contact Kathy Huber at the new TCCL Genealogy Center to see if she would like to be a part of the session.

Federated Searching

When Michelle came to the meeting she mentioned that Evlyn Schmit was not going to be able to attend the meeting but she really wanted to see an OLA conference program on federated searching.  She wanted a session that focused on how it “really” works.  For example, she wanted a session that focused on how to use federated searching for reference work and how it is going to change how we and our patrons search for information.

Michelle mentioned that the Information Technology Roundtable was looking to sponsor a federated searching workshop in February.  This is going to be a very technical workshop that will also include the topics of wireless networking and electronic resource management.  The roundtable would like UCD to co-sponsor this workshop.  Cathy for a vote on co-sponsoring this workshop and the group voted to be a co-sponsor.

Linda asked if the IT workshop would cover the need for a federated searching workshop.  Michelle said she didn’t think it would because Evlyn’s idea was focused on the “use” of federated searching rather than the technology used.  There was group consensus to do the session.  Cathy will contact Evlyn about organizing this session.

RFID

Cathy announced that the RFID session has also been put together for the OLA conference.

KM Seminar

Gina reported that she had received an email from Dr. Suliman Hawamdeh, OU-SLIS professor, stating that he could find another speaker for the afternoon part of the workshop so it would fill the entire 9:30 – 3:30 time period.  He had asked if we wanted him to do the flyer and find the extra speaker.  The group decided that he should do these things and also asked about what the workshop should be called. Gina said that she will relay this information to him and ask if he has title for workshop.

Salary Survey

Mary is working on the Salary Survey.  Cathy will check with Kay Boies and see when she needs that information.

Next Meeting

The group decided on the next meeting to be a video conference on November 2, 2005.  Cathy will send out an announcement later and identify the various remote sites.

Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned at 2:05 p.m.