ICONnection: December Minutes

ICON Quarterly Meeting Minutes

ICON Quarterly Meeting
December 10, 1999
2:00 p.m.
Alegent Health Immanuel Medical Center

ICON Business Meeting: Members present: Terry Arndt, Angela Arner, Erin Bauer, Judi Bergjord, Diana Boone, Jim Bothmer, Jeanne M. Burke, Beth Carlin, Sr. Judith P. Healy, Mary Helms, Chris Kirby, Ronnie Mevorach, Karen Mier, Marie Reidelbach, Kate Rose, Joy Winkler, Helen Yam, Rose Schinker

1. Welcome & call to order & introductions: Mary started meeting off at 2:12 p.m and then again at 2:16 p.m. with introductions.

2. Approval of minutes: No Changes. Helen Yam moved to accept minutes and Angela Arner seconded. Motion approved.

3. Executive Secretary report

Financial Report.

Ken Oyer was not in attendance

Membership renewals/directory.

Renewals have gone out. Please get them in by year 2000!

4. Old Business

Bylaws changes (handout)

CE Class. Joy commented that it went well. There was a good cross-section of librarians. Planning another CE in the Spring. Would like to have CE’s once or twice a year.

Network Committee / NLM grant

$4,000 left. Offered $3,000 as bootstrap grant to Regional West Center in Scottsbluff, NE. If money is available, she’d like to have someone come and do Internet training and instruction on various database searching.
Docline: March 16th! Announcements are going out via the listserv. RML minigrant update: for consumer web resource, bootstrap grants from this grant would be available. Reviewers have sent an initial set of questions. And a second set of questions. Waiting to hear who will receive the grant. Allocation is in January for $40,000. There will be educational courses. In this region, there were eight grant applications.
Karen handed out an http for additional info on Docline: new features, etc.
If you want your own list off Serhold, Karen has the address for that also. Let her know. There is a new list of SD libraries.
Mary: SD does want us to visit the new library in the Spring! Mary said, “We can leave people.”
Spin off - conference application (Angela) - Reaching Up Conference. Sponsored by Methodist. 10th -12th of October - Lied in Nebraska City. Focused on Wellness for various audiences. A 90 minute program was given on teaching consumers about the Internet.

Membership brochure

Hold (Ken Oyer)

NLA booth

Did have a booth at NLA this year. Next year will be a tri-conference in Omaha (NEMA and Mountain Plains) plus there will be a White House conference. Need to have an educational booth present at the next NLA conference.

5. New Business:

Appointment of ICON Webmaster

Erin Bauer from McGoogan Library of Medicine will take on the web page and editorial duties! Welcome Erin!

Election of New Board Member

Karen Mier is the new freshman member! Welcome Karen!

6. Report from MCMLA ‘99 Scholarship Awardee

Hold (Ken Oyer)

7. Announcements

$1 Million grant has gone to Henry Doorly Zoo for the encouragement of young people to volunteer - Chris

Prospero - when you can scan document to a webpage instead of sending to another Ariel machine. Instead, you will be notified that you have a document to download in the form of a FTP file. Means you don’t have to have Ariel to get your documents! - Creighton

8. Holiday Party!!!!!!!!!

Karen moved to adjourn. Joy seconded.

9. Next meeting: March 16th

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