OASLMS Executive Board Meeting

January 20, 2004

Oklahoma State Dept, Of Education

2003-2004 Officers

Chair - Ellen Duecker

Chair-elect - Margo Canaday

Secretary - Carrie Fleharty

Treasurer - Yvonne Grady

AASL Assembly Delegate - Buffy Edwards

Past Chair - Jayme Seat

Present:  Ellen Duecker, Jayme Seat, Margo Canaday, Barb Pfrehm, Buffy Edwards, Mary Ann Robinson, Kathleen Lienke, Jeanie Johnson

Ellen Duecker called the meeting to order at 2:30.  This was a brief, informal meeting after a morning working session to develop a set of statewide standards Oklahoma School Library Media Programs. 

Barb and Kathleen reported on their success in finding nominees willing to run for OASLMS Secretary and Chair-Elect.  They have submitted names to Kay Ballard.

Nominees for secretary are:

            Connie Wise and Angela Coffman

Chair-Elect nominees are Deborah Mayes and Laura Sesso.

Legislative Report:  Jayme Seat shared the theme “A Piece of the Pie” for the upcoming Legislative Day.  One issue on the horizon is a proposed change in property taxes for senior citizens.  The change would raise the income level at which property taxes are capped from the current $25,000 established in 1996.

AASL has sent letters of resolution to states in support of the recognition of LMS as outstanding teachers.  Jeanie received the letter asking for support of library programs from Superintendent Garrett who asked her to respond to it.

Research Project:  Buffy brought information concerning the AASL Highsmith Grant and offered to work on the grant to help fund our research initiative.  Ellen volunteered to contact David Loertscher to see if he is willing to provide a limited number of hours of consultant time on a per hour basis by phone and email. Jeanie and Barb reported on their initial investigation of statistics for the research project.

Barb and Jeanie reported on an error in School Library Journal concerning requirements for OK school library positions.  They asked if OASLMS could do a letter and Ellen agreed that one was in order.  She will work with Barb and Jeanie to request that SLJ correct their error.

Regional Meetings:  Margo volunteered to attend the Feb. 3 Regional Meeting in Moore. 

The meeting was then adjourned to continue work on the OK program standards.

The next meeting is scheduled for Feb. 10^th at 2:00.