OASLMS General Meeting

OLA Conference

April 1, 2005

2004-2005 Officers                                                     Ex-Officio Members                                                                    

Chair—Margo Canaday                                                 SDE—Barb Pfrehm, Jeanie Johnson

Chair-Elect—Deborah Maehs                                        Awards Chair—Audrey Gramling

Secretary—Connie Wise                                               OLA—Kay Boies

Treasurer—Yvonne Grady

AASL Assembly Delegate—Buffy Edwards

Past Chair—Ellen Duecker

Call to Order:  Margo Canaday called the meeting to order at 7:40 am.

Secretary’s Report:  The minutes from the General Meeting at Encyclo-Media on September 28, 2004 were submitted by Connie Wise and were approved.

Treasurer’s Report:  The report of $2,424.76 was submitted by Yvonne Grady and was approved.  She reported that we are still waiting for a check from OLA for credit card payments from the Encyclo-Media Silent Auction.

Chair’s Report:  Margo Canaday reported that OASLMS has remained focused on its goals this year.  Due to the efforts of some members of legislature to decrease current LMS certification and standards, OASLMS took a proactive move to develop program standards in a rubric form.  The final form was obtained in January, 2005 and is now available on our web site.  OASLMS also participated in a research study to show the impact of the library media specialist and student achievement.  Now that the data has been collected, we are waiting for a picture to see what the LMS “does all day.”  OASLMS is now preparing a comparative study to collect similar data based on LMS without assistants. 

Margo reported on special awards and honors.  Stephanie McDaniel received the Polly Clarke Award, Elizabeth Bailey received the Barbara Spreisterbach award, and Jo Ann Koch received the Technology award.  She noted that all award forms are now available online and can be submitted online.  Twelve LMS earned National Board Certified Teacher status this year which now makes 37 in the state since LMS were added in 2002.

OLA:  OLA Conference will be held on March 30 – April 1, 2005 in Norman at the National Center for Employee Development.   The website is www.oklibs.org

Library Media:  Barb Pfrehm reported that Encyclo-Media will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, September ____, 2005 in Tulsa.  Program proposals are available online with a deadline in May and she stressed the need for room hostesses this year.  Barb reported that there were no critical legislative issues that affect school library media specialists right now.

Awards:  Audrey Gramling reported that Jo Ann Koch received the Technology award at the OLA ___. 

Legislative Update:  Buffy Edwards reported that OLA Legislative Day is scheduled for Wednesday, April 13.  She encouraged our attendance.  She reported that Jayme Seat plans to attend the National Legislative Day.

PR Committee:  Mary Ann Robinson reported that they continue to upgrade the web page.  Kathleen added that they are always looking for suggestions to improve the site and relevant content to add.  The website address is www.oklibs.org/oaslms

AASL:  Buffy Edwards shared information from the MidWinter AASL conference and encouraged members to vote online. She reported that AASL has a large membership but a low voting turnout for ALA elections which directly affects whether a school person can be elected as President of ALA.  AASL National conference is in Pittsburg and early bird conference deadline is June 17.   Visit the OASLMS website and click on AASL Delegate Report for more news!   

Program Standards Committee:  Ellen Duecker reported that the standards were presented at an OLA conference session by Mary Ann and Kathleen   Ellen shared history of the development of the standards and stressed the use of the standards as talking points with administrators to move library media programs beyond the minimum Standard VII criteria.  Barb emphasized that the newly developed standards were created and are promoted by OASLMS, not the SDE due to budget and adoption issues.  Kathleen made a motion to accept the program standards with a second by Carla Aldrich.  The motion passed.    Barb reminded members that the standards can be modified and will show a revision date.  Discussion was held concerning an award or recognition to schools that reach Exemplary status.  Sybil Connally volunteered to head a committee to look into a “honors” program and the manageability of such an undertaking. 

Statewide Assessment Project:  Ellen Duecker stated that she has met with David Loertscher and Nancy Miller to “clean up” the collected data.  She shared aspects of the data, such as the amount of multi-tasking reported by participants.  She is now looking for volunteers for a shorter research study on full-time LMS with no assistant.  Members who are interested need to contact Jeanie, Barb, or Ellen. 

New Business:  Buffy distributed a chart to show the proposed changes to the organization of the OASLMS executive board.  The motion to accept the proposed changes made by Kathy Latrobe with a second by Janie was accepted unanimously.

Sybill Connely shared an idea to develop the web site for better outreach purposes.  She shared options of a chatroom with highlighted topics in folders, a message board, or a blog.

Jeanie explained the unique organization of OLA in rotation of president between SLMS, public, and academic divisions.  She encouraged OASLMS to shine during her upcoming presidency.  She ____ the need to increase membership with 1,043 SLMS in the state and only 300 as members.  Jeanie has requested a candidate to step up to walk through the year with her as a way to prepare for the next upcoming candidate. 

Margo reminded everyone that Richard Trout will be the OASLMS speaker at 12:15 pm. 

The meeting was adjourned at 8:20 am.

Submitted by Connie Wise, secretary