ICON – Summer Meeting 2005

Quarterly Meeting

June 10, 2005  - 2:00 PM

Alegent Health Bergan Mercy Medical Center (Oak Room) 7500 Mercy Road

 

Present: Heather Browne, Marty Magee, John Mitchell, Shawn Ammon, Marie Reidelbach, Karen Meir, Judy Healy, Darryl Willoughby, Jeanne Burke, Jim Bothmer, Angie Arner, Judi Bergjord, Siobhan Champ-Blackwell, Teresa Hartman, Mary Helms, Rose Schinker

 

1. Call to order at 2:10

2. Introductions (included updates)

  • Alison Bobal is leaving McGoogan July 15
  • CUHSL has a site license for RefWorks
  • Helen Yam is retiring from UNMC
  • College of St. Mary Library sign is up
  • Methodist College is relocating in September, the library in December; they are moving from Blackboard to Angel
  • New carpeting at CUHSL
  • The Cornhusker Hotel will be renovated in August; Bellevue wil have a new paraprofessional and a new tech services staff
  • LaVista is headed into summer programming; Metro has a computer gaming club at the library

           

3. Approval of April Minutes – Teresa Hartman moved to accept minutes as amended

 

4. Executive Secretary’s Report (Mary)

There are still two outstanding bills for “The Librarian Is In”; expenses for MLA included a T-shirt and CD, Creighton will keep the MLA CD for check-out along with the MLA ’04 CD

 

5. Communication Coordinator’s Report (Shawn)

The website is up to date; a Content Management system will be more complicated than originally thought; Karen Mier will go into Docline and get Ariel IP addresses for Shawn to post on the website

 

6. Committee Reports

            a. Bylaws – no report

            b. Membership – updates given during introductions

            c. Resource

                        1. ARIEL (Karen/Shawn) The final report went out, it will be posted on the ICON website in the Library Link section – a spreadsheet on statistics of use will be included in the final online report; Contact Shawn, Mary or Tom if you want to get more use out of the ARIEL equipment; The warranty of the ARIEL equipment is three years; you may want to get your equipment registered.

 

The ICON Union list 2002 will be withdrawn since it’s old

 

            d. Continuing Education- The Technology Presentation was taped and is available for check out (at Creighton?); College of DuPage tapes are also available, though a couple are missing; CUHSL will do a demonstration on June 28 at noon on RefWorks; In the Fall a survey of items of interest will be sent out to the membership

 

7. Old Business

            a. Joint Midwest/MCMLA in Omaha (Jim/Teri); An accounting of how the money from MCMLA ’07 will be divided will be posted to the web site; The chairs are working on MOAs, Committees will be posted on the ICON; The theme is: “007: License to Thrill”; The Iowa Chairs will be coming to Omaha (note July 18th and 19th )

 

8. New Business

            a. Scholarship – Deadline of Aug.1; remember we only have to discuss the scholarship if we are going to eliminate it! Mary H made a motion – A person who receives an ICON scholarship is required to make a presentation to ICON at he meeting which follows the CE; they should include a written report or a powerpoint slide show to supplement the oral report; Jim B. seconded; Passed Shawn will change the form

b. Committee members – invite people to join committees; allow prior members an opportunity to step down; Judy Pat will send an email with a description of the committees and invite new members; Karen M. brought up that the Continuing Ed Committee is not a standing committee, do we want to add it as one? Mary will come up with proposed language to add Continuing Ed as a standing committee.

            c. Elections – Officers assume office at the end of the December meeting; People can be nominated or self-nominate themselves by December 1; Nominations will also be allowed the day of the meeting – Judy Pat will include this in her email regarding committee invitations

            d. Sharing accomplishments – UNMC IAMS planning grant Feb ’05 – develop an electronic record with a role for the library

 

9. RML News (Marty/Siobhan) – Siobhan presented a Technology update, telling about using Bloglines to aggregate blogs that she follows http://www.bloglines.com/

Marty talked about the RFP for 2006-2011 and we played a “Nebraska Statistics” game.

 

10. Announcements

            a. 2005 Regional / National meetings:

                        July 21 NEBASE Annual (East) – Lincoln (Cornhusker Hotel)

Sep  17 – 20  MCMLA – Salt Lake City    

Sep  28 – 30  NLA – Lincoln (Cornhusker Hotel)

Oct  12 – 15  MPLA – Jackson Hole

           

11. 2005 ICON Meetings

                        Aug  26 – LaVista Public Library

                        Dec    9 – Creighton Health Sciences Library

 

12. Adjournment – Ken adjourned the meeting, Judi seconded it.

13. Mini – MLA (all participants)