Reference Round Table - Minutes - 1996

RRT Executive Board Minutes

Reference Round Table Executive Board Meeting

Date and Time: April 24, 1996, 2:00 p.m., George R. Brown Convention 
Center, Houston, Texas

Present: Claudette Hagle, Jeanne Pyle, Marian Jackson, Noe Guerra, Ron 
Glass, Robert Kelly, Joyce Hopkins, Will Stuivenga, Lynne Hambric, John 
T. Becker, Judy Hart, Karen B. Nichols, Susan Hidalgo, Fran Ebbers

1.  The meeting was called to order at 2:00 p.m., Claudette Hagle 
presiding in the absence of Cherry Luedtke.

2.  The minutes of the July 30, 1995 meeting were corrected to show the 
correct spelling of John T. Becker in attendance.  Minutes approved as 
corrected.

3.  Secretary/Treasurer Fran Ebbers reported current assets of $5,068.65.

4.  TLA Councilor Report given by Jeanne Pyle.  TLA expects this 
conference registration to be the highest ever.  TLA has a web page and 
is encouraging all divisions to develop individual web pages.  A hearing 
is scheduled for May 9 regarding the Tex-Share link.  Unfinished business
will be discussed at the Friday meeting of Council.

5.  Marian Jackson reported on the activities of the Nominating Committee 
in the absence of Marilynn Green.  Elected were Vice-chair, Jeanne Pyle; 
Secretary/Treasurer, Fran Ebbers.  The nominating committee consists of 
Marian Jackson, Susan Beck, Noe Guerra, Karen Nichols and Marilynn Green, 
who as past chair of the committee continues for one year.  Forthcoming 
elections will include Councilor and Alternate Councilor.

6.  Judy Hart, the TLA Program Committee liason to RRT, reported on the 
1997 conference to be held April 8-12, 1997, in Fort Worth.  The theme is 
People, Libraries, Information: Resources Worth Sharing.  The RRT program 
to be developed around the theme of how we grow through sharing resources 
must be finalized by annual assembly, July 28-30.

7.  Annex B to the by-laws for the Reference Source Award was unanimously 
approved by Executive Board of TLA.  A formal announcement about the 
procedure for nominations for this award will be made after annual 
assembly.

8.  Will Stuivenga reported that the deadline for newsletter copy is May 
20. Extra copies of the November newsletter were placed at the RRT 
booth.  Ed Erazo will remain as assistant newsletter editor.  Suggestions 
for topics include the Reference Source Award, winner of the drawing, 
officer/councilor nominations, program for 1997 conference.

9.  Jeanne Pyle, Vice-chair will assemble a committee to develop a 
conference program for 1997.

10.  Jack Becker reported on the activity at the RRT booth in the absence 
of Steve Self.  He encouraged volunteers to sign up to staff the booth. 
Buzzy Basch of The Reference Shelf donated a two-volume Directory of 
Texas Manufacturers which will be awarded during the Thursday program.  A 
copy of Texas Reference Sources is displayed at the booth.  Copies are 
available for $15 at the TLA booth.  A call will be made to TLA regarding 
unsold inventory of Texas Reference Sources.

11.  Claudette Hagle explained the format for the RRT program to be held 
Thursday, April 26 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:50 p.m. in Room 311.  The 
speaker, Maureen Pastine, will talk for approximately 20 minutes.  There 
will be 30 minute discussions by the audience, aided by RRT facilitators, 
on a variety of topics relating to updating and retraining reference 
services in a rapidly changing environment.  Facilitators will report on 
the discussions at each table.  Facilitators are also asked to write up a 
concensus of the discussion and send to the newsletter editor.

12.  Fran Ebbers reported that $400 was contributed by RRT for the Tall 
Texans Leadership Conference.  Last year RRT sent 8 members; this year 7 
will attend.

13.  Old Business:
	Claudette will draft a charge for the publicity committee and submit 
to the Executive Board.  Volunteers for the committee include Robert 
Kelly, Lynne Hambric.  Claudette will seek additional volunteers.

14.  New Business:
	It was agreed that a RRT web page be developed.  Jeanne Pyle volunteered 
to code the text for the web page and will find out guidelines from TLA.

15.  Claudette Hagle thanked the Board for Cherry for all their hard work 
on the Reference Round Table this year.

16. The meeting was adjourned at 3:55 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Fran Ebbers, Secretary
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