October 26, 2001, at 3pm, Online Virtual Chat meeting

Meeting chaired by Barbara Quarton

Present: Scott Breivold (Los Angeles), Cynthia Bruns (Fullerton), Judith Downie (San Marcos), Kelly Jarousek (Long Beach), Rosemary McGill (Fullerton), Barbara Quarton (San Bernardino), Andrew Shroyer (Los Angeles), Eileen Wakiji (Long Beach).

1. ListServe… Discussion of CSUF-South joining with the CSUL-North list serve to create a combined listserve. It was asked how CSUL-North felt about CSUL-South joining with them. Barbara Quarton stated that they would welcome it. It was felt that it would give us wider coverage and some contact with CSUL-North. Judith Downie suggested that if the message is for the South only, you should note SOUTH in the subject line. It was decided that CSUL-South will join with the CSUL-North listserve. Announcement will be made in the CARL newsletter inviting interested people to sign-up.

2. CARL pre-Conference 2002… Barbara Quarton is the official contact person for the pre-conference and will be moderating. Andrew Shroyer is planning a presentation in regards to a serial weeding project experience. Scott Breivold will talk about media "collection refinement." The two presentations will be separate but in the same block of time and juxtaposed closely. Barbara Quarton would like summaries from the presenters by November 21. Kelly Janousek has volunteered Long Beach to do a session the general collection. Hayward will also be presenting. Each session will be about forty minutes and will include time for a question and answer period.

3. Waiver of SJSU-SLIS fees for CSU staff…Barbara Quarton had contact Gordon Smith at the Chancellor’s office in an effort to present CSUL-South’s opinion that CSU staff should receive reduced or waived fees. Gordon Smith replied that the Chancellor’s office has considered this issue and will contact CSUL-South "When the opportunity arises for your participation and support." It was agreed that this group would not pursue scholarships or fee waivers at this time.

4. "Shadow" Program between SLIS students and CSU librarians… This would be a program where Library students are invited by a CSU library to visit for the day, "shadowing" a librarian to give them experience of a real workday. It is suggested that everyone consider guidelines for this program and possibly come up with a new name. Any ideas should be forwarded to Barbara Quarton. Kelly Janousek will contact UCLA and Cynthia Bruns will contact SJSU at Fullerton to get their initial reaction.

5. Another General Chat… The topic for the general chat will be weeding. The date for the chat will be February 14 and we will send out a CARLALL reminder a few days ahead of time. Andrew Shroyer volunteered to send in an announcement to the CARL newsletter. The deadline for the newsletter is November 14. Scott Breivold will look into setting the session up as "open enrollment’ so that we don’t need everyone’s name ahead of time.

6. Election of VP…Judith Downie was elected by acclamation. Thank you, Judith.

A special thanks to Scott Breivold for setting up the online chat session

Minutes submitted by Cynthia Bruns, November 6, 2001.