Quarterly Meeting
August 26, 2005 - 2:00 PM
LaVista Public Library
Present: Darryl Willoughby, Sherryl Williams, Sr. Judy Pat Healy, Marie Reidelbach, Teresa Hartman, Siobhan Champ-Blackwell, Angela Arner, Robin Bernstein, Rose Schinker, Anne Heimann, Jennifer Jazynka, Karen Mier, Mary Helms, Kenny Oyer, Kathy Tooker, Judi Bergjord, John Mitchell, Shawn Ammon, Jeanne Burke
Guest: Lori Rader, Omaha Public Library
1. Call to order 2:07pm
2. Introduction new members, guests – Jennifer Jazynka from Gretna Public Library
3. Approval of June Minutes – Teresa Hartman moved to accept minutes as amended, Angela Arner seconded
4. Executive Secretary’s Report (Mary Helms): 9,314.46 current balance
5. Communication Coordinator’s Report (Shawn Ammon)
The ICON Union list has been updated and is available on the website with the information on the Ariel grant. The ICON listserv is live, and the website is up-to-date. The Ariel addresses are on a separate page with the union list.
6. Committee Reports
a. Bylaws (Mary Helms)
A vote will be taken at the December meeting on whether to make the Continuing Education Committee a Standing Committee. The ICON bylaws require thirty days notice of proposed amendments, so thirty days before the Winter meeting, Mary Helms will post information to the ICON website and listserv regarding the upcoming vote. Judith Pat Healy provided handouts at this meeting on the committees, and Mary provided a handout on ICON bylaws.
b. Membership (Judi Bergjord)
Remember to bring a check to renew dues at the December meeting. Also remember new employees are potential ICON members. Don’t forget to tell them about ICON.
c. Resource (Karen Mier)
Ariel address were given to Shawn to add to the website. Ariel is not running at Bergan Mercy or Fremont yet.
d. Continuing Education (Jeanne Burke)
DuPage series will still be offered this year.
7. Old Business
a. Joint Midwest/MCMLA in Omaha (Jim Bothmer/Teri Hartman)
Teri provided a summary of the joint meeting that was held in Omaha with the chairs of both groups and the committee chairs. The evening before the meeting, an informal dinner was held, and many ICON members joined the festivities. The meeting began with a tour of the Hilton hotel where 2007 MCMLA/Midwest meeting will be held, and then the committees and chairs held a meeting at Creighton University’s Health Sciences Library.
b. Committee members (Sr. Judy Pat Healy)
Judy Pat brought a handout on committees in ICON and asked people to consider joining committees at the December meeting. Also, a new Freshmen member will be elected at the December meeting. Please nominate someone to run for that position. Send names of committee member or new Freshmen member candidates to Judy Pat by the time of the next Executive Board meeting.
8. New Business
ICON received a thank you from Joy Winkler for her mother’s memorial gift. A gift was sent to Habitat for Humanity in memory of Sue Raymond’s husband. The executive committee determined that in the future all memorials will be handled in that manner: a $25 donation will be sent to the charity of the family’s choice.
a. Report on “Go Local” initiative (Sr. Judy Pat Healy/Marie Reidelbach)
A letter of support was sent from ICON to the NLM in support of McGoogan leading the Nebraska Go Local Initiative.
Marie Reidelbach reported that McGoogan received a letter of acceptance as the Nebraska Go Local Institute. They will be setting up an advisory board that will include one representative from ICON, and several other organizations – public library, physician, consumer, special library, etc. The role will be advisory – to give advice, recommendations, promote Go Local, etc. They are also seeking funding from NLM to purchase the HCP tracking system that keeps track of health care providers in Nebraska. They will consider keeping healthHQ as a stand alone – it will be incorporated into Go Local, but may also exist as it is now. healthHQ will keep its current URL but is moving over to the UNMC server. The clipping service for healthHQ is $3,000/year. Go Local has a tentative release date of December 2006.
A question from Karen Mier – is the Honors & Awards Committee a standing committee – since its not, do we need to remove/change the wording of it. Mary Helms will put up the word change on that group’s name 30 days prior to the winter meeting, so a vote can bet taken on that issue also.
9. RML News (Siobhan Champ-Blackwell/Marty Magee)
Marty is in DC at the CDC Synergy training. After Marty is trained, she will coordinate with SOPHE and provide 2 trainings per year in our region, with costs covered by the RML. This will be a valuable resource for our region in public health.
On October 11, the day before MPLA/WyLA, the RML is hosting a community outreach symposium in Jackson Hole, WY. It is free and open to all to attend. The first speaker is Valda Boyd Ford, Director, Multicultural Affairs, UNMC. The goal of the symposium is to bring together a group of people to collaborate – public, medical librarians and community based organization members – to work on joint projects for health information access. This will be a hands on conference providing tools to use.
The NN/LM website has been redesigned. The MCR is working on its state pages so take a look at the Nebraska page and make changes as you see needed.
Marty will be presenting at the NLA pre-conference “Caring for the Mind”.
10. Announcements
a. 2005 Regional / National meetings:
Sep 17 – 20 MCMLA – Salt Lake City
Sep 28 – 30 NLA – Lincoln (Cornhusker Hotel)
Oct 12 – 15 MPLA – Jackson Hole
Oct 25 – 26 Minority Health Conference (Holiday Inn Central, Omaha)
[Jocelyn Elders, Keynote http://www.hhs.state.ne.us/omh/Conference05/]
Kathy Tooker announced that “Bridges Over Poverty” NLA pre-conference will be given by a wonderful speaker. Kathy Tooker also has raffle tickets for a Basket of Chocolate that is being raffled at the NLA conference. The Nebraska Library Commission is funding a bus that will leave Omaha on October 11th and head to MPLA. People from Kansas and Iowa can join the bus for $100; each Nebraska rider can take one additional rider for $100.00
11. 2005 ICON Meetings
Dec 9 – Creighton Health Sciences Library
12. Adjournment
13. Presentation – Lori Rader (Omaha Public Library – business-related electronic resources)