Friends of the Golda Meir Library
Meeting
Monday, 12 October 1998
12:00 p.m.
Room
W104
Present: N. Lasca, Chair; S. Miller; R. Seay; S. Tolan; P. Watson-Boone
Excused:
F. Chaney; E. Hinshaw; L. Schneiders; H.
Winter
Guests:
E.
Barczyk; C. Maass
Lasca called the meeting to order at 12:15 p.m.
The minutes were accepted as submitted.
Sally Tolan, a new member of the Board was introduced.
The revised bylaws were approved by the membership at the 17 May 1998 annual meeting. Approval was given
to create 10 director positions.
Treasurer's report: Lasca reported for Winter.
Due to retirement and resignation of key Library Business Office
positions, a general report only was compiled. A more detailed report will be available for a future meeting. Tolan
moved to accept the report as is and look at details at the next meeting. Seay seconded. Motion carried
unanimously.
President's report. Negotiations with the Milwaukee Art Center about joint membership are continuing. Lasca
and Miller will meet with the UWM Alumni Association board and the UWM Foundation Board to discuss
membership privileges and fund raising issues in the fall when new officers of those Boards are in place.
Attendance and meeting times of the Friends Board were discussed. Lasca urged Board members to renew their
membership in the Friends.
Library Director's report. The library has had a great deal of
staff changeover.
An agreement was recently
reached with the AAAAI , a national professional society, to house and process their archives. The archives will
benefit research in
Allied
Health, Nursing, and Social Welfare. An agreement is being concluded with WTMJ to
house collections of news footage; WITI recently approached the library about a possible
gift of its news
footage.
The Library is part of the UW system procurement of a new automated system to order, accession, and
catalog items.
The Regents have submitted a
request for
increased
state
funds
to strengthen the
holdings
of all
UW System libraries. This would be the first state increase in library acquisitions funding in 10 years.
Program Committee report. Seay: had a successful annual meeting and booksale. Planning for a book sale in
spring 1999 is underway.
Board membership. Lasca distributed a list of potential new members. Currently there are ten
vacancies: per
his earlier letter to the Board, Lasca proposed that five
members be appointed
immediately and
five more
members
be elected at
the next annual meeting. Discussion of the process of
changing the makeup of the Board over the last two years. Qualities that people could bring to the Board were reviewed. Possible new members
were identified and a course of action was decided on. Miller moved
that the President (Lasca) be authorized to appoint 5 board members from the list approved by the Board. Seay seconded. Lasca cast the proxy from Hinshaw. The motion was passed unanimously.
Committee chairs. Seay agreed to continue as Program Committee chair for one month. Lasca asked Seay if he
would consider co-chairing the Program Committee. The nominating and membership committees will remain
the same.
Other. The five items on the library funding request were discussed. Miller moved to support the items. Tolan seconded. Hinshaw proxy was cast.
Motion passed unanimously.
Lasca suggested the Board go on record supporting the UW System Library DIN and urge Chancellor Zimpher to vigorously advocate such funding. Lasca will write a letter on behalf of the FOL membership. Seay moved that Lasca write a letter to the Chancellor in support of the $12M UW System Library DIN; Miller seconded the motion. Motion passed unanimously.
The next meeting will be Wednesday, 6 January 1999.
The meeting adjourned at 1:35 p.m.
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