ACRL DVC Board Meeting Minutes – August 8, 2018

ACRL DVC Board Meeting Minutes

August 8, 2018

Attending: Jess Denke, Karen Sheldon, Adam Mizelle, Jessica Brangiel, Megan Donnelly , Stefani Gomez, Nancy Bellafante

We have set board meetings to occur the third Wednesday of the month from 12-1:30pm.   Next meeting will be September 19, 2018.

May meeting minutes were approved and can be posted to the blog.  

Jessica Brangiel will continue in the ACRL Chapter’s Council rep position for the 2018/2019 year.   

Christina Steffy is representing ACRL DVC as part of the PAForward Information Literacy Team.   She provided an update to the board on the work she’s done so far:

• • 5 sessions at the PaLA annual conference (October 14-17)  will be sponsored by PA Forward
  • Information Literacy team (and libraries participating in star library program) will have a poster displayed at Capitol Hill during the press conference and poster session on Wednesday, October 17
  • Brandi Hunter Davenport will be presenting to a library organization in MD interested in learning about the PA Forward program in general and specifically about information literacy
  • Information Literacy team is developing and Information Literacy toolkit which includes a press release for information literacy month and resources for patrons of all ages and in all types of libraries
  • PA Forward Information Literacy Summit 2019 – can’t have at PSU main campus in 2019 due to library renovations. Looking at venues for 2019. Will likely be back at PSU after renovations completed.

Financial Report from Adam:

• Bills from the spring program are in the process of being paid.   
• Adam is working on getting the PayPal account transferred to his name.
• Payment will be sent soon to Drexel to secure the space for the fall program.
• We are continuing to reimburse travel grant award recipients as they complete their conference attendance.   
• Adam has drafted a budget for the fall program and is reviewing with Jess.
• Membership renewals are coming in.   Question was raised about raising membership fees – feedback from other chapters has been our dues are very low in comparison.  Perhaps we would rather increase fundraising than increase membership dues? The board will continue to discuss.

Leslie is archiving financial information in the Google Drive.   Jess will follow up further for an update.

Nancy discussed reimbursements from ACRL National.  We have $832.46 in reimbursement funds. The Drexel facility fee ($200) can be reimbursed with these funds.  Also discussed using the funds for swag (Nancy to investigate further) and future social gatherings.

Megan has made updates to the blog.  She is following up with the travel grant recipients for blog content about the conferences they have attended with their ACRL DVC grants.  Additional content to be added in the upcoming weeks/months include an update on the Fall program, board member profiles, meeting minutes and an announcement on the ACRL value of academic libraries funding.  

Karen is working on the website.  There are some formatting challenges. Karen spoke further with Kristina Carol (former webmaster) for more information.  

• Additional changes include “announcements” to “blog feed”
• Renew your membership – update Adam as Treasurer

Fall Program planning update:

• • October 26th 10 AM to 3:30 PM @ Drexel Learning Terrace
  • Panel of organizers/librarians for afternoon session
  • Try to get corporate sponsor to cover the food.
    • Vendors with collections for social justice. – AltPress Watch (Proquest)
    • Altpress.org
    • Thomas Reuters is local.
  • Send out Save the Date/Call for proposals again.

• Announcements:
  • Incorporation papers from Nancy/Adam for catering