DRAFT
SustainRT Board Meeting, ALA Mid-Winter, Boston, January 9, 2016
Present: Madeleine Charney, Coordinator; Matthew Bollerman, Secretary; Rebekkah Smith Aldrich, Member at Large; Amy Paster, Tonyia Tidline, Andrew Peters, Meredith Wickham, Margaret Woodruff, Shaun Akhtar, Al Kagan, Brianne Wall
Virtually: Eileen Harrington, Member at Large
Meeting was called to order at 1 pm by Madeleine Charney. The group introduced themselves and were asked what they were grateful for.
The minutes from November 23 were reviewed.
Matt shared Betsy’s budget report.
Online Education – Madeleine shared a list of all the webinars held and planned for to date: Recap of lightning rounds from Annual SF; Miguel Figaroa, Center for the Future of Libraries on resilience and the shared economy; EPA Energy Star, Mike Walker, Libraries and IT; Chelsea Green Publishing, Books to Action program – Genease Ray, the Seed Underground author had a program with library; Rachel Shea, Clark University, TED Talk, Laquota Nation tree cutting on the reservation, libraries as community space builders; Jody Grey, Director of ALA Office of Diversity, Literacy and Outreach, will explain about what the office is up to.
ALA Structure
Jody Grey, Director of ALA Office of Diversity, Literacy and Outreach
John Amundsen, ALA Staffer
Peter Hepburn, ALA Executive Board
Governance – Scheduling follow up call with Keith Michael Fields (KMF). Conference services issues follow up.
Programs – Lightning Rounds. Sustainable Thinking, Rebekkah and Matt – could be highlighted as a spotlight program KMF is considering it. National Library of Aruba, secondary and higher ed panel talk about sustain issues. Social with SRRT at Annual, Saturday night dinner with membership meeting, possibility.
Enviro Scan – Google form to collect projects and categorizing them. Resource list. Projects will be used to inform blog posts. Database help is needed. MySQL in conjunction with Drupal.
Marketing & Outreach – Two reports from Tonya and Christina. Blog launch, olos.ala.org/sustainrt looking for Board approval for launch. RSA moves MB seconds. Passed, 4-0.
Membership goal of 300 members. December of 2016, will use $300 creating an each one tell one, $100 gift card to ecoplum (currently 203 members). $100 travel award to a student to attend conference (written or video). $100 travel award for current library worker.
Beth Filar Williams and Tonya – are looking at refreshing the web site. Will draft a mock up and distribute for comment and review.
Secretary will manage membership. This will include sending a letter welcoming new members, asking after dropped members, and whatever our members need.
Name changed from Marketing & Outreach to Outreach.
Nominations for Elections – Ashley Jones is chair of the nominating committee. Four members are interested in member-at-large position. One person interested in treasurer and coordinator. None for Secretary. People are still encouraged to sign up for an office. Interest is due to ALA by January 28.
Madeleine is encouraging attendance to IFLA in Columbus, Ohio. ENSUE is their comparable SustainRT section. Volunteers are needed, which results in free attendance.
Christine Lind Hage is a candidate for ALA President. She shared her experience with ALA and related associations. She also shared her platform, including work on the Digital Content Working Group. Strongly in support of roundtables. Seeing a more robust library economy more people are joining ALA. Allows new members to put a toe into ALA.
Peter Hepburn from ALA Executive Board shared ALA is encouraged by increases in membership numbers and budget. Membership Committee liked our work on getting rid of the plastic name badge holders. May be asked to help with evaluating financial investments by the endowment office. We asked Peter to continue the conversation about the resolution passed at San Francisco.
We will set up a Board list serv as per John Amundsen’s offer.
Green Award – Will be examined and forwarded to the Outreach group.
Climate-related resolution – What role should SustainRT take? Will table and discuss more in the future.
Meeting adjourned at 2:35 pm. Madeleine moved and matt seconded the meeting to close.
Respectfully submitted, Matthew Bollerman, Secretary