Attendees: Karen, Mary, Adam, Jess, Stephanie P., Stefani, Elise
June Meeting Minutes approved and posted to the blog
Financial Report – Adam
- TD Bank – an error (another business account’s debit was processed on our account) has been resolved.
- Assets are up by $450 — to about $6,500
- We should be able to give our usual $1000 stipend
- Membership has increased in Wild Apricot, but 40% of memberships are still overdue. Adam expects this will increase when folks want to attend the fall program
- Jess: the membership level wording – national vs chapter – is confusing. Is it possible to include explanatory text in Wild Apricot? Adam will find out.
- Karen: do we offer free membership to students and first year librarians?
- We haven’t yet found a way to do this, but Adam will look into it.
- We’re in a good place financially – we should spend it!
Fall Conference – Stefani
- Topic: Cultural Humility
- Title: Beyond Diversity Speak: Practicing Cultural Humility in your Library
- Location: Cedar Crest College
- Date: October 25, 2019
- Expenses:
- $500 for the venue
- Catering – not yet firm, but will be less than $2000
- $1200 for workshop leader, Lorin Jackson
- Save the date email to go out
- Call for Proposals to go out – board members should post to listservs and social media
Chapter event: free film screening of The Public
- Artsquest Center at the Steel Stacks
- Sunday, September 29 @ 7:00pm
- Pre-event meet-up for ACRLDVC: 5:00pm @ Bonn Place Brewery in the Southside, Bethlehem
- Post screening Talk back moderated by Jasmine and Ben Bertalan from Allentown Public Library
- The theater cost $400 but the screening is free and open to anyone
- Discussion: shall we ask for donations?
- Decision: we won’t advertise that we’ll request donations, but will offer the opportunity for people to donate at the event
Social Committee update
- Elise is exploring options
- Jess suggested a budget would be helpful in order to offer something like free appetizers
- Discussion about possible locations in or near Philly. Elise will figure out a way to poll members either at the screening event in September or have people vote on options at the fall meeting
Blog update
- Mary Huissen is new editor and has posted an introduction. She’d like to make the blog a bit more active:
- Stefani and Jasmine will each write an introductory post
- Will additional members contribute posts? We could interview members if people do not want to write something
- Board members (and all members) are encouraged to subscribe to the blog in order to be notified of new posts and share them on social media
Web update
- Karen will be coming back
- Jess updated the chapter members
- Meaghan is the contact for listserv
Next meeting: September 18