Section Council of the Medical Library Association

At MLA 2009, the Public Services Section celebrated their 25th anniversary with a special cake.  Congratulations!

Thanks to Terry Ann Jankowski for the photo.

This year marked major anniversaries for several Sections.  Congratulations to:

• Consumer and Patient Health Information - 25 years
• International Cooperation - 20 years
• Public Health/Health Administration - 35 years
• Public Services - 25 years
• Veterinary Medical Libraries - 35 years

Section Council will meet Saturday, 5/16, 7am-2pm, in Convention Center 317B.  There will be coffee and danish before the meeting. The agenda is below. Let me know if there are any changes.  If you need a print copy, please bring it with you.

During the introductions, please be prepared to share one or two sentences about what your Section has accomplished.  This could either be something about Section programming at MLA or a project that you have accomplished (or are working on) during the year. I have also attached the Minutes from the 2008 meeting of Section Council.  I realize that not many of you were at that meeting, so you might want to confer with last year’s Section Council Reps as the minutes will need to be approved.

During the meeting we will be discussing possible goals for next year.  One item that has been submitted is to develop a Section Project of the Year Award similar to the Chapter Project of the Year Award.  Please come with other ideas or send them to me in advance. If neither the Section Past Chair or Section Chair can attend the Section Council meeting, you will need to name a proxy to represent your Section.  See Section 6.4 Proxy Vote for details on the process.

Please bring Section brochures with you.  MLA is recommending that fewer print resources be brought.  I will be setting up the Section Council table on Friday, 3-5pm, so you can bring them by then.  I will have the list of brochure size pockets requested.  Any left over brochures will need to be picked up before I close the area on Tues at 11:30am.  Any remaining at the end of the meeting will be discarded.

I hope you have already revised your Section Bylaws according to the MLA Model Bylaws and will vote on them at your Section Business meeting.

Please notify your Sections Chair-Elect (who will serve on Section Council as Section Chair next year), that there will be an orientation for them at 1:30, right before the New Leader’s Tea.

Judy Burnham, Section Council Chair

Medical Library Association
Section Council Annual Meeting
Agenda

Saturday, May 16, 2000, 7:00am - 2:00pm
Honolulu
Convention Center 317B

7:00 AM Meet, greet and eat Council Members

(Coffee & assorted breakfast pastries will be served)

7:30 Call to order Judy Burnham

• Introductions Council members
• Business Meeting protocol Judy Burnham
• Announcements
• Susan Lessick to serve as Parliamentarian
• Margaret Vugrin will serve as Recording Secretary
• Bylaws Changes
• Votes and Quorum memo
• Officer Changes
• Recruitment/Retention wiki
• Non-Section Member Report
• Bookmark
• Meetings @ Chapters
• Anniversaries
• Update Web pages
• Award deadlines
• Section Shuffle 2010
• Section Planning Grid
• Symposium ideas

7:45 Approval of 2008 Minutes Judy Burnham

• Minutes of May 17, 2008

7:55 Committee Chairs Reports and Discussion

• Section/ SIG Review Committee Janis Brown
• Elections Committee Janet Schnall
• Web Page Melissa Rethlefsen

8:30 Formal verification of online vote for Janet Schnall

• Potential Candidates to the MLA Nominating Committee and for Section Council Vice-Chair

8:45 Membership/Recruitment Report Judy Burnham

9:00 Break

9:15 Incoming MLA President -Elect Ruth Holst

9:45 Liaison Reports and Discussion

• Benchmarking Pat Pinkowski
• CE Committee Carol Gilbert
• Credentialing Committee Marie Ascher
• Membership Committee Jie Li
• NPC 2009 Jan Cox
• NPC 2010 Gale Dutcher
• NPC 2011 Rikke Ogawa
• PRRC Helen Look
• Social Networking Mary Piorun

10:15-10:45 MLA Headquarters Report Carla Funk

10:45-11:00 Section Council Chair Report Judy Burnham

11:00 - 11:15 Recognition of outgoing Council Reps Judy Burnham

11:15 -12:30 Lunch Break (On your own for lunch)

12:30-1:00pm Incoming MLA President Connie Schardt

1:00 - 1:30 Discussion of Goals for 2009-2010 Judy Burnham

• Section Project of the Year Award

1:30- 2:00 Orientation for Incoming Section Reps Judy Burnham

2:00 Adjourn Council meeting and move to the Leaders Tea.

The biographies of the 2009 Nominating Committee candidates are now available.  Ballots will be distributed via the Section Council listserv.  Watch for the announcement next week from Elections Committee chair Janet Schnall.

The Section Chairs’ Manual, Section Council Procedure Manual, and all additional policy and procedure documents have been updated on the web site to reflect the new changes to Section Council’s membership.  If you come across any document on the web site that you think has errors or does not reflect these changes, please let Section Council Chair Judy Burnham (jburnham [at] jaguar1.usouthal.edu) know.

From Section Council Chair Judy Burnham:

I am starting to get election results in from Sections…thanks for being ahead of the deadline!

Just a reminder that nominees for the Nominating Committee need to complete the form at http://scouncil.mlanet.org/blogs/policies/nominating-form/.  It doesn’t have to be exact, but what we do need is their signature noting that they are willing to run and biographical information to use during the voting process.  At the Section Council meeting at MLA we will select six nominees from Section Council that will run for the Nominating Committee (along with six nominees from Chapter Council and six nominees from the MLA Board).

Until a Chair of the Section Council Elections Committee is officially appointed, please continue to send the results to me (jburnham [at] jaguar1.usouthal.edu).

UPDATED 2/4/09: Send results to Section Council Elections Chair Janet Schnall or Section Council Chair Judy Burnham.

Section Council has a wiki devoted to recruitment and retention.  Get some great ideas that have worked for other Sections and contribute your own!

Additional corrections have been made to the Section Nonmember Survey Report. The corrected version is available here.

The MLA Task Force on Social Networking Software has announced a new series of classes for MLA members.

January 19-25, “Media Sharing,” 2 CE credits
February 16-22, “Web Collaboration Tools” (registration required by February 9), 2 CE credits
March 9-15, “Wikis,” 2 CE credits
April 20-26, “Blogs,” 2 CE credits

For complete information, see the Task Force’s blog and the course web site.  Please share this information with your Section’s members.

Section Council has approved a new SIG — Institutional Animal Care and Use SIG.  Melissa Ratajeski will serve as convener.   Eighteen Sections voted with 17 voting YES and one voting NO.