MINUTES
TEXAS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
REFERENCE ROUNDTABLE
JULY 30, 1983


The Reference Roundtable meeting at the TLA Annual Assembly was called to order by 
Susan Hancock, Chair, at 1:00 p.m. Approximately twelve people were present.

The minutes of the April 13, 1983 meeting were read by John Fadell, Secretary/
Treasurer.  Two corrections were made:

The title of the April 12 program should read "Literary Diversity Within One 
Culture."

Next year's nominating committee members are Antonio Martinez, Nan Ross and 
Bettye Sutton.


Susan Hancock made the following announcements:

The allocation of next year's budget of $660 will be $400 for next spring's RRT 
Program, $160 for one newsletter mailing, $50 for the RRT Project and $50 for 
miscellaneous expenses.

Susan will send a taped copy of the April, 1983 RRT Program to each of the five 
speakers on that Program.

Please contact the nominating committee with suggestions for candidates for office.

The 1981 volume of the Red River Index is supposedly finished but has not been seen 
by Charles Smith and the bibliographic committee.  There is a possibility of the 
bibliographic committee's being an advisory committee to the Red River Index and of 
RRT members serving as volunteer indexers.

Susan will obtain a copy of the bylaws to see if changes proposed a couple of years 
ago were made official.

There is a need to build the RRT budget back up.  Susan discussed various ways we 
might try to increase our membership.


New business:

The RRT Project: Lois Bebout of SWTSU has accepted the general editorship of Texas 
Reference Sources, which has been dormant since 1978.  She will contact subject 
editors with regard to updating their areas.  The distribution of the update, as 
well as that of the Texas Reference Sources copies still available from the TLA 
Office, will have to be worked out.

C. Brigid Welch, Texas Library Journal Contributing Editor for User Education, 
wished to know if there was interest in forming a user education committee within 
the RRT or perhaps a separate User Education Roundtable; she would welcome our 
ideas.

 
The RRT Program for next spring's TLA meeting: Charles Smith, Vice-Chair/
Chair-Elect, presented several ideas for discussion.  The two topics that evoked the 
most interest were electronic reference services and bibliographic instruction.  We 
can present one of these at our one-and-one-half-hour combined business and program 
meeting and perhaps the other at a seminar cosponsored by RRT.

There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 3:10 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,


John E. Fadell
Secretary/Treasurer


cc:  Susan Hancock 
     Charles Smith 
     TLA Office

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