Reference Round Table - Minutes

Reference Round Table Business Meeting

TLA Annual Conference
Friday, Aprd 3, 1998 at 12:00 noon
San Antonio, Texas


The meeting was called to order at 12:00 noon by Jeanne Pyle, chair.

The minutes of the April 10, 1997 business meeting, were read by Marian Jackson, 
Secretary/Treasurer, and approved as read.  Marian Jackson then reported a 
balance of $5,846.08 as of January 31, 1998.

Joyce Hopkins, chair of the Texas Reference Source Award committee, 
announced the first winner of the Texas Reference Source Award.  Douglas E. 
Barnett, managing editor of The New Handbook of Texas, accepted the award on 
behalf of the Texas State Historical Association.  Joyce reported that this award 
was first approved by TLA in 1996 with the call for nominations deadline on May 
1, 1997.  There were fifteen (15) nominees for this first award.  Joyce then issued 
the call for 1998 nominations, with a deadline of May 1, 1998.

The Reference Round Table Bylaws revision was made available to the 
membership on the RRT Web page and was mailed out wtth the RRT Newsletter.  
Susan Beck chaired this committee charged with revising the RRT bylaws to be in 
compliance with the TLA bylaws.  The motion was made by Will Stuivenga and 
seconded to accept the revised bylaws.  The motion was accepted by 
acclamation.

Susan Beck, chair of the TLA Bylaws Committee, had previously communicated 
with Jeanne Pyle the need to revise a statement contained in the bylaws.  Jeanne 
Pyle explained that, with the new bylaws now approved, the amendment to the 
statement in question could now be done at this business meeting rather than 
waiting another year.  The following statement needed to be amended:

	"Any member of the Texas Library Association may select membership
	in Reference Round Table.  Every personal member of the Reference
	Round Table has the right to vote and is eligible to hold office."

The statement recommended to replace the underlined sentence above is as 
follows:

	"Officers must be current members of TLA and Reference Round Table 
	and residents of the state of Texas."

A motion was made and seconded to amend the RRT bylaws to reflect this new
statement.  On a voice vote of the membership, the majority voted in favor of the 
revision with one dissenting vote.  The RRT Councilor will discuss with the TLA 
Executive Board this new statement.

Jeanne Pyle announced the new officers of the Reference Round Table for 1998-
1999 as follows:

	Chair:			Ron Glass
	Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect:	Martha Tarleton
	Secretary/Treasurer:	Jack Becker
	Councilor:		Pat Switzer
	Nominations Committee:	Diane Downing, Chair 
				Karen Nichols
				Maria Ayala-Schueneman

The new Reference Round Table brochures were made available to the attendees.
The RRT Web Page was announced as being available through the TLA web site. 
(Note: The URL for the RRT Web Page is http://www.txla.org/groups/
rrt/rrthome.html)

A drawing for copies of ten of the Texas Reference Source Award nominees was 
held.

In the absence of Ron Glass, Jeanne Pyle introduced the speaker for the 1998 
Reference Round Table program.  Entitled "Connecting with Our Patrons: 
Reference Services in the Digital Library", the program was given by T. J. Lusher, 
Assistant Director for Automated Library Systems at Northern Illinois University.

The business meeting was adjourned at 12:20 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Marian Jackson
1997-1998 Secretary/Treasurer
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