Present: Linda Bixler, Joe Dahlstrom, Lynda de los Santos, Mark Dolive, Christine Godin, Janet Key, Janice Lange, Jeffrey Levy, Elizabeth Mallory, Karen Nichols, Steven Ring, Cary Sowell, Kim Wiley

1. Call to Order
   Linda Bixler called the meeting to order at 4:00 p.m.



2. Approval of the Minutes
   A motion carried to approve the Executive Board minutes with seven amendments. Membership Meeting minutes will be posted online for approval at the next meeting.



3. Legislative Committee Summary
   Joe Dahlstrom expressed his appreciation of CULD support that allowed Joe and his daughter Molly Dahlstrom to attend ALA Legislative Day in Washington. Joe has volunteered to be an ACRL Legislative Advocate. He will keep CULD in the loop and would be happy to pass information along to others who send him a request at dahlstromj@uhv.edu. The main legislative issues for the new year will be looking for additional money for Texas libraries and concerns about the Governor’s veto of Higher Education Employees Group Insurance Contributions for Public Community/Junior Colleges. Joe asked members to pass along other concerns to him.



4. 2008 Conference Programs
   
Linda Bixler described plans for six programs, emphasizing the call for collaboration and cooperation called for by the TLA Strategic Plan:


Preconference on Library Buildings – This session will feature an architect as speaker followed by breakout sessions among participants. Participants will find out what changes impact plans for building or renovation projects and how to communicate effectively with architects. Co-sponsors include PLD, TASL, and the Program Committee.

Digital : What is Next? – Sam Hastings will present on future trends.

Getting Along with IT Staff – The Program Committee (Walter Betts) suggested a session on how library and IT staff can communicate better and help each other.

Digital Natives and Intellectual Property – Speakers from the Digital Citizens Project (Illinois University Libraries) will discuss their study of how students use technology and how we can retain them to respect intellectual property standards. CULD will be the chief sponsor. PLD may co-sponsor.

How Do We Recruit New People into the Profession? – CULD may co-sponsor a program about IMLS grants with the Professional Rights & Responsibilities Committee [should this be Professional Recruitment and Retention Committee?].

E-Books: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Mark Dolive of the Community and Junior College Discussion Group described plans for this program featuring a panel of vendors and librarians discussing the future of e-books – how current products fit in the library market and what we would like to see in the future.

5. Officer Reports – Report from the Chair
   
Linda Bixler noted that CULD is supporting a large number of program proposals to take advantage of our strong balance of funds. By building collaborative partnerships through program planning, we can build cohesion with librarians from other kinds of organizations and help them think of us as partners to help address common issues.
6. Secretary/Treasurer’s Report
   
The ending fund balance from FY2006/2007 is $13,724.44.
7. Committee Summaries
   
1. Legislative – (see item 3 above)


2. Information and Membership – Steven Ring will send updated minutes to Kim Wiley to post on the website. Kim will also post updated Standing Rules. Linda is looking for volunteers to fill two positions on the committee.


3. Scholarship – The Board agreed to reduce the number of members by one to streamline the work of this committee. Linda Bixler will seek one new member.


4. Nominations and Elections – Cary Sowell volunteered to serve as a member. We are seeking a Chair and another member. Volunteers need to know people.


8. New Business
   
1. Tall Texans – We have asked that our $1,000 donation be applied to a CULD person, but TLA still has discretion. Encourage academic librarians to apply.


2. Future Conference Programming – Janice Lange began a brainstorming session to generate ideas for future conference programming. Suggested topics were assessment; institutional repositories; improving cooperative arrangements; a strategic planning workshop by Julie Todaro and Janet Largan; ways to bring young people into the profession; ways to think differently about the services we provide – looking closely are what are students are using; redoing the Polaris conference presented at Annual Assembly; and open source catalogs.


3. TLA Legislative Fund – There was discussion about the need for CULD to support the TLA Legislative Fund to take action on the issue of community college funding and the polling project. CULD currently has $1,000 budgeted for this purpose. Discussion was tabled.

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Texas Library Association, College and University Libraries Division
Executive Board Minutes, Annual Assembly
Tuesday, July 10, 2007, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Hyatt Regency, Austin, Texas

Sign-In Sheet

Jeffrey Levy, UNT Libraries, jlevy@library.unt.edu

Steven Ring, UH-Downtown, rings@uhd.edu

Karen Nichols, Lamar University, karen.nichols@lamar.edu

Mark Dolive, Weatherford College, mdolive@wc.edu

Cary Sowell, Austin Community College, cary@austin.cc.edu

Elizabeth Mallory, University of Mary Hardin Baylor, emalloyr@umhb.edu

Janice Lange, Sam Houston State University, lib_jpl@shsu.edu

Linda Bixler, Texas Woman’s University, lbixler@mail.twu.edu

Christine Godin, Northwest Vista College, cgodin@mail.accd.edu

Kim Wiley, Lamar University, kim.wiley@lamar.edu

Joe Dahlstrom, UH-Victoria / Victoria College, dahlstromj@uhv.edu

Lynda de los Santos, Tarrant County College, Lynda.delossantos@tccd.edu

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These minutes were placed online on May 30, 2008 by Kim Wiley.
Copyright 2008, TLA College & University Libraries Division.

CULD Minutes