Reference Round Table - Minutes - 1991 - Executive Board

REFERENCE ROUNDTABLE

TEXAS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION

EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING, JULY 25, 1991

MINUTES


Melinda Townsel-Winston chaired the meeting.                 

Introduction of Officers

The 1990/91 Reference Roundtable officers were introduced.

Secretary/Treasurer's Report

The minutes of the April 9, 1991, Executive Board Meeting were read and approved.

As of June 30, 1991, the RRT has a balance of $2,358.20 in its regular account and a 
zero balance in the Texas Reference Sources account.  Funds totalling $909.48 were 
transferred to the RRT account to clear the TRS ledger.

Committees

A.	Newsletter editor John Hepner reported that news items for the Fall issue should 
	be submitted to him by October 1.

B.	Nominating Committee

	Tom Rohrig and John Russell gave a brief progress report on nominations of 
	officers for the coming year.

C.	Texas Reference Sources

	Maurice Fortin read a progress report submitted by Walter Bell, editor.  Subject 
	editors have been selected for all fields; several positions for reviewers are still 
	open.

	Remaining copies of Texas Reference Sources were sent to Maurice Fortin and 
	many copies have been distributed to subject editors for the new edition of 
	Sources.

Lois Bebout Reference Service Award

There was a discussion about appropriate wording to outline the submission and 
acceptance of nominations.  A motion was passed to approve the wording as follows:

	Nominations for the Lois Bebout Reference Service Award may be submitted to 
	the RRT Executive Board at any time, however the call for nominations will 
	appear in the Fall edition of the RRT newsletter.  Nominations will then be 
	accepted by the RRT chair until the first day of the Annual Conference.

Program for TLA Conference--1992

Donald Buchwald presented three topics for the program at Annual Conference for 
review: 1) a presentation by a representative of the Institute of Military History; 2) a 
presentation by the Texas Department of Commerce on that agency's regional data 
bases for statistical information; 3) a presentation by Dan Marmion, Oklahoma State 
University, outlining the use of Hypertext at the reference desk.

A motion was passed that the topic for the next program at annual conference be the 
use of Hypertext at the reference desk.  It was agreed that Karen Wielhorski, Head of 
Central Reference, Texas A & M. should be contacted and asked to make the 
presentation.

The day and time for the RRT business meeting and program at Annual Conference
was discussed. The concensus was that Thursday, April 9, 1992, in the afternoon
would be the best choice if there was minimal conflict with other programs.

RASD Council of State and Regional Groups

John Hepner read a report on meetings of RASD Council of State and Regional Groups
at ALA Annual Conference June 28-July 3, 1991.  John reported that he has been 
selected as chair-elect for the coming year.

RRT Membership

	Margaret Nichols, TLA board liason, asked for suggestions on increasing 
membership in RRT.  She noted that while membership for TLA has increased, 
membership for the RRT has shown little change.  Suggestions of various ways to 
increase membership were discussed.  Favorable response was given to the 
development of an ad hoc membership committee that would be responsible for 
promotion of RRT, develop brochures, and possibly set up a booth at Annual 
Conference.  It was agreed that the RRT chair and chair-elect would work together 
cooperatively to assign members to this committee by the next Executive Board 
Meeting and provide the committee with the charge to explore ways to increase RRT's 
visibility and membership.
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