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TLA Conference Meeting

Friday, April 4, 2003
Brown Convention Center, Room 207
Houston, Texas

Committee Members Present:

Mary Christmas, Chair; Amanda Barrera, Diantha Dawkins, Dolores Greenwald, James Karney, Denise Landry-Hyde, Ronald Pollock, Martha Tarlton, Ted Wanner, and Jeanne Martinez, TLA Executive Board Liaison.

Guests:

Beth Thomsett-Scott.

Mary Christmas, Chair, called the meeting to order at 8:00am.

Old Business:

  1. Approval of Minutes
    Minutes from the July meeting at Annual Assembly were approved.
  2. Financial Report through 2/28/03 was shared with attendees.
  3. Committee Web Pages
    1. A big "thanks" to Chris Peterson for her work on the committee Web page.
    2. Plans are to have the Conference Survey results up on the Web when results are in. These will be in PDF file format and probably some other format, as well. Ron Pollock will follow through on this.
    3. Additional links and information are to be included.
  4. Pre-Conference and Conference Programs
    1. Ted Wanner gave a summary of the very excellent pre-conference, "Oh, the Places You'll Go with Videoconferencing," which was co-sponsored with the CE Providers Interest Group and the Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
    2. The committee also co-sponsored the program, "Out of This World Collaborations," which focused on NASA's "Fun with Science" Project, with the CE Providers Interest Group.
  5. Revised TLA Conference Survey
    1. Committee members were asked to look over this year's end-of-conference survey and make recommendations for revisions/improvements.
    2. The committee would like to have raw data, including demographic data, from the survey that could be manipulated, as needed. Jeanne Martinez will talk to Pat Smith about this. It was also mentioned that a goal of Eva Poole's presidency is to gather this kind of information from the membership -- job satisfaction, retirement plans, salary issues, etc. -- to help give us a good overview of the profession in this state.

New Business:

  1. Revised TLA Survey Results
    1. Procedural changes
    2. Reporting limitations
    3. Dissemination to Committees and Interest Groups
      Survey results need to be shared with committees and interest groups in time for them to incorporate suggestions into program planning for next year.
  2. Goals for 2003-2004
    1. We will decide at Annual Assembly on what programming/pre-conference to sponsor for next year.
    2. Results of the Conference Survey will need to be shared with the appropriate committees and interest groups.
    3. It was suggested that communication with the general membership be enhanced through contact via e-mail.
  3. Agenda Items for July Assembly
    1. Annual Assembly will be held on July 10-12, 2003.  Thursday afternoon will probably be when the CE Committee will meet as sign-up time for conference slots will be on Friday morning. It will be a 2-hour meeting.
    2. Send possible agenda items to Mary Christmas. One possible topic for programming is leadership.
  4. Draft Strategic Plan (for consideration by TLA Council in July 2003)
    Mary Christmas will accept feedback from committee members on the draft through the end of April. Mary will then pass along comments to the TLA Office by the May 15th deadline.

Executive Committee Liaison Report (Jeanne Martinez)

Jeanne reiterated the need to get comments in on the Draft Strategic Plan. She also reminded committee members that anyone wanting to get on the TexLine list, especially to keep up with legislative issues, should contact Gloria Meraz in the TLA Office.

Closing and Adjournment

It was announced that Mary Christmas was re-appointed Chair of the Continuing Education Committee.
The meeting adjourned around 9:00am.

Respectfully submitted,

Denise Landry-Hyde
Committee Member

 

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