FRIENDS OF THE GOLDA MEIR LIBRARY

Board of Directors Meeting

Friday, 14 February 2003, 12 noon

4th floor Conference Center

Present: Albert Adelman, Ewa Barczyk, Lois Blinkhorn, Bruce Fetter, Robert Meldman, Alderman Michael Murphy, Robert Pietrykowski

Guests: Stephanie Ackerman, Steve Burnham, Dawn Lee-Vue and Susan Modder.

The meeting was called to order at 12:20pm.

• Minutes of the November 8, 2002 Board meeting were approved as submitted.

• Acting President Bruce Fetter reported for Schreiber the recruitment of prospective new board members John Koetheand Lolita Schneiders (former Friends board member). Bruce Fetter received concurrence that a motion to authorize one Inside Inscriptions be bought to commemorate Peter Watson-Boone’s father’s passing.

• Remarks by Stephanie Ackerman (UWM Foundation)

Stephanie Ackerman, Program Manager for the Office of Development gave a brief summary of what the Foundation does and announced upcoming events:

• The Foundation has recently made recommendations to hire a consultant to work on fund-raising. They are in the process of meeting with the recommended company.
• The fund-raising campaign kickoff date has not been set yet. There will be a meeting with the consultant and the deans and directors of each department. Peter Watson-Boone, Ewa Barczyk and Susan Modder will be actively involved with this.
• 3 categories of fundraising activities: Scholarship, Faculty and Special Needs. The public phase of the capital campaign has not yet been announced. It may be a year from now.
• In terms of how the finances work, any money raised for the libraries will count toward the campaign but will go to the libraries. The libraries have a lot of potential and opportunities.

4. Treasurer’s Report: (Bruce Fetter for Barry Silberg). The current balance as of Jan. 23, 2003, was $64,633; including $22,035 in the FoL Trust Fund account and $8,225.84 in the Bliffert Trust Fund for FoL. The report was accepted by the Board as submitted.

5. Director of Libraries’ Report (Ewa Barczyk for Peter Watson-Boone):

• Introduced Susan Modder as the Library’s Development Director in Administration. Susan will be working on fundraising and the Phonathon that will be coming up soon.
• Libraries budget- Working on 5 percent cuts in each year of the next biennium. Trying to preserve access to our students, but we will see reductions in library hours, in book and journal collections etc.
• Announced and displayed gift donations of two antique maps of South America from Friends of the Library board member Patricia Van Alyea. The maps were donated to AGSL.

6. Committee Reports

• Program Committee (Lois Blinkhorn): The Friends’ Spring Booksale will be held on Monday-Wednesday, April 7-9. The Friends’ made over $3,000 from the last booksale. The Friend’s annual meeting will be scheduled for Thursday, June 12, 2003. Suggested using WTMJ news film footage from Archives to show the public other non-print media from the UWM Libraries. Would also like to get former Friends Board member Ed Hinshaw to be the commentator.

7. Funding Request from the Director (Ewa for Peter Watson-Boone)

The Libraries requested up to $7,000 to support the publishing of the book on John Downey entitled John Downey: A Creative Profile by Sister Marion Verhaalen. The motion passed unanimously with the amendment that the Libraries also seek additional funding but that this should not hold the project back.

8. The meeting was adjourned at 1:15pm