Reference Round Table - Minutes

REFERENCE ROUND TABLE

TEXAS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
   
MINUTES                 


The annual meeting of the Reference Round Table of the Texas Library Association 
was held in Room 106 of the Albert Thomas Convention Center, Houston, Texas 
on Friday, April 9, 1976.

Chairperson Lois Bebout, Associate Director, Southwest Information Associates, 
Austin, Texas called the meeting to order at 10:30AM.

Ms. Bebout appointed Ken Parker, Mary Mills, and Delores Bentke to be the 
minutes approval committee for this meeting.

The Chair recognized Kay Stansberry, 1977 TLA Conference Program Chairperson, 
who made announcements concerning the El Paso Conference.

The Chair then recognized Will Cain, representing the Texas Bibliographic 
Society, who asked the Reference Round Table to appoint a Round Table member 
to serve as a liason person to the Texas Bibliographic Society.

The minutes of the last meeting and the membership and treasury reports were 
read and approved.

The Chair appointed Jacqueline Hambric to act as parliamentarian for the 
meeting, and appointed tellers to assist in straw votes to be taken during 
the business meeting.

Ms. Bebout made a report on the work during the past year of the Committee on 
Information Sources About Texas.  She then named the editors of the Texas 
Reference Sources, and complimented them on their very fine work.

The Chair then read a letter dated April 1, 1975, sent to Kay McMurrey, Texas 
Readers Service, offering financial assistance to a new edition of An Index 
to Texas Periodicals, and the reply from Ms. McMurrey and Brenda Olds declining 
the offer since the publication had not been self-sustaining and financially 
possible.

Ken Parker then reported on the User Education Exhibit and the seminar on 
User Education Activities in Texas Libraries.

Ms. Bebout then mentioned several publications of note that were not included 
in Texas Reference Sources, and stated a revision was planned for TRS and 
asked for comments.

Linda Samuels made a Planning Committee report.  The committee had met and 
considered several things that it felt should be done by the Reference Round 
Table over the years:

(1) Updating of TRS; (2) Seeking names of titles omitted from TRS; (3) Reference 
Round Table to pick up the publication of An Index to Texas Periodicals; (4) 
That RRT consider an occasional paper series; (5) That RRT appoint a publications 
committee; (6) That RRT write the editors of Texas Almanac requesting a better 
index to that publication; (7) that RRT recommend that TLA do an index to the 
TLA By-Laws.

Ms. Samuels made the following motions:

(1)	That the Planning Committee coordinate the publication of an annual review 
article to review the most important new tools that have appeared in the 
past year and that those reviews be furnished by the subject editors of TRS.

(2)	That a TRS review committee be appointed to consider omissions and further 
bibliographic needs, and make recommendations to the editors and the Planning 
Committee.

(3)	That RRT undertake the Index to Texas Periodicals project and appoint a 
committee to plan the project, coordinate indexing, and to work out a feasible 
means of publication.

(4)	That RRT appoint a publications committee to coordinate RRT publications 
with those of the TLA publications committee.  This committee would determine 
funding and approval necessary to begin any RRT publication.

(5)	That RRT appoint a committee to prepare an occasional paper series.

All five motions were approved by the membership present.

The Chair then recognized Marjorie Wheeler, Nominating Committee Chairperson,
who presented the following nominees:

		Katherine McMurrey, Vice-Chairperson and Chairperson-
				Elect
		George Anne Monger, Secretary/Treasurer

There were no nominees from the floor.  It was moved and seconded to accept 
these nominees by acclamation, and the motion carried.

The Chair then asked for straw votes on the following:

(1)  Does the RRT approve of the idea of voluntary certification?  The vote
was in the affirmative.

(2)  Does the RRT approve of the certification document as it now stands?  The 
vote was against approval of the certification document as it now stands.

(3)  Does the RRT approve of changing the TLA By-Laws with regard to the compo-
sition of TLA's Executive Board?  The vote was in the affirmative.

(4)  Does the RRT approve of changing the TLA By-Laws with regard to votes by 
the Round Tables?  The vote was against this change.

(5)  Does the RRT approve of changing the TLA By-Laws with regard to the 
establishment of Interest Groups?  The vote was in the affirmative.

(6)  Does the RRT approve of changing TLA By-Laws with regard to budget 
reports by Round Tables?  The vote was against this change.

Ken Parker then moved that a RRT By-Laws Committee be appointed to make the
RRT By-Laws compatible with any changes that might be approved in TLA's
By-Laws.  The motion carried.

The meeting was adjourned by Ms. Bebout at 11:55AM.


				Ann Landtroop
				Secretary/Treasurer
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