Reference Round Table
Texas Library Association
Minutes, Annual Assembly
Texas Ballroom 2, Hyatt Regancy, Austin, Texas
1:30 P.M. to #:330 P.M., Friday, July 24, 1992
1. The meeting was called to order by Chairman Donald M. Buchwald.
11. The following were present:
Melinda Towensel, Gretchen Staas, Jane Clausen, Dolores Bentke,
John C. Hepner, Bill Hord, Richard C. Dickey, John Dillard,
Lynne Westerholm, Kathy Sparkman (Visitor from CULD), Cherry
Beth Luedtke, Don Buchwald, Karen Hendrick, Mary Ann Higdon, Ruth
Stiles, and Lynne Hambric.
III. The offices for 1922/93 were introduced::
Donald Bushwald (Corpus Christi State University,) Chair;
Bill Hord ( Houston Community College) - Vice Chair/chair elect;
Jacqueline B. Hambric (Texas A&M University) - Secretary/Treasurer;
Delores Bentke (Houston Public Library), Jane Clausen (Lubbock
City-County Library), and Steven Reich (Houston Public Library) -
Nominating Committee.
IV. Secretary/Treasurer's report
Minutes of the April 8, executive board and April 9, annual
meeting were read and approved.
Balance on hand was $ 2915.95.
V. Committee reports
A. Newsletter - John Hepner
The survey for information about Reference Round Table
members and their interests would be included in
the newsletter.
Deadline for information to be included in the newsletter
is Aug. 28.
Requests for nominations for the Lois Bebout Award would
be included.
Ballots for new officers would be included.
B. Nominating Committee - Jane Clausen for Steven Reich
The committee asked for suggestions for the slate of
officer candidates.
Vice chair/chair elect
Richard Dickey - University of North Texas
Carolyn Heizer - Southern Methodist University
George Teo - Houston Community College
Secretary/Treasurer
Terri Miller - Lubbock City-County Library
1993\94 Nominating Committee
Jane Clausen - Lubbock City-County Library
Joyce Hopkins - San Jacinto College
Bob Kelley - Houston Public Library
C. Texas Reference Sources - Walter Bell
Hoped to have a draft by the fall.
The TLA Publication Committee would need to approve it
before it could be printed.
The TLA office could give a cost estimate for printing of
the publication.
D. Lois Bebout Award - Melinda Townsel-Winston
Jean Tolbert, retired Baylor Librarian was submitted for
the award. Mary Ann Higdon moved to accept this
nomination and Karen Hendrick second it.
A placque and honorarium would be presented to her at the
beginning of the RRT Business meeting in March 1993.
E. Ad Hoc Membership - Richard C. Deckey
The committee met at annual conference and drafted a
survey. This was discussed and approved. The
approved version would be included in the fall
newsletter to RRT members.
VI. Old Business
Roster changes were noted and approved.
VII. New Business
A. Executive Board TLA Liaison - Margaret Irby Nicholas,
Gretchen Staas.
B. Program for TLA conference March 9-13, 1993 - San
Antonio - Bill Hord.
Suggestions for the program were:
1) Carol Kuhethan - school library background as speaker.
2) Multicultural Diversity
Program to be presented:
"Reference and Information Services for Diverse
Populations", a panel of speakers will give their
views on this. This topic will be in keeping with
the theme for the annual conference, so it was
chosen.
VIII.Other Business
CULD asked us to co-sponsor their 1993 pre-conference on
"Electronic Access to Serials: Access, Storage, and Cost."
This is a timely topic for reference personnel so the group
voted to co-sponsor. Karen Hendrick moved that $ 500 would be
given in support. John Dillard second the motion. It carried.
October Ivins, Head of LSU Serials Dept. would be the keynote
speaker.
We voted $100 to be given to the Legislative Day Fund.
We agreed to co-sponsor a program on Learning Theory with the
Bibliographic Instruction Interest Group since they were a
part of RRT at one time,
The ILL group asked us to co-sponsor their program on document
retrieval. This was tabled.
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