NASIG Newsletter

NASIG EXECUTIVE BOARD
2008 ANNUAL CONFERENCE WRAP UP SESSION
JUNE 8, 2008, TAPATIO CLIFFS, AZ

Attending:  Char Simser, Peter Whiting, Alison Roth, Kim Maxwell, Bob Schatz, Rick Anderson, Jill Emery, Denise Novak, Anna Creech, Sarah Wessel, Bob Boissy, Virginia Taffurelli, Joyce Tenney

NOTES OF DISCUSSION

Comments on Conference from Attendees

•    Resort was somewhat isolated.  Not good distribution of information on city bus availability.
•    No dessert opening night.
•    Service was excellent at the resort.
•    Lots of positive comments.  We should consider returning to Tapatio Cliffs.

Thoughts for Next Year’s CPC

•    Have a laptop devoted to the Café Press site, so attendees can purchase conference souvenirs.
•    Have one type of each shirt to raffle off during the conference.
•    Have a link on the registration form to Café Press.
•    Need more computers for Internet Café.
•    Need a ADA station for Internet Café.
•    Have Internet Cafe in a room not a hallway and have chairs.
•    If doing a line for food and not various stations, have at least two lines to avoid the problems of the Museum event.  If we return to Phoenix, do not use Arcadia Farms catering again.
•    Make sure non-members can access handouts from conference.
•    Check links to handouts.
•    Make sure that A&R and CPC get accurate lists for awards and announcements for next year.
•    The “Meet the Board” session needs to have more information on the schedule and maybe need to rethink format. Perhaps note that this is a forum to ask about being on the board and what it entails.
•    Do travel advisory as air travel is getting problematic for smaller airports.
•    Will need lots of PR starting early in summer.
•    Target local organizations and east coast organizations to get the maximum number of people that can drive in to keep our numbers up.

Continuing Education Committee

•    Initial concern over the charge to have money making programs for the year, but they are excited about the opportunities.
•    The co-chairs of the committee will be distributing the work throughout the committee to keep burn out from happening at the co-chair level.
•    They will be using the same platform as the conference registration form for registration for Continuing Education programs.

All NASIG Committees

•    Char asked all to review committee charges with their committees and see if we need any revisions or updates. Bring suggestions to the fall board meeting. Publications/PR Committee will need to reword their charge with the introduction of organizational sponsorship.
•    Remind all committees that official NASIG PR should go through the Publications/PR committee.
•    The Proceedings editors were concerned over the announcement that NASIG might assume editorial responsibility for The Serials Librarian. Emery noted that it would not fall to Proceedings even if it did occur.  Would be spread out among other members.

Thoughts from Brainstorming Session

•    There was positive feedback on working with ER &L.  Emery will pursue.
•    There was positive feedback on working with state associations and CONSER.  Need to have PR pursue getting announcements of NASIG meetings out on the CONSER listserv and other state associations close to the area of NASIG programs.
•    An idea of an advisory board for small publishers came up in working with SSP. It would be similar to a mentoring relationship.
•    The idea of having a joint conference with organizations like SSP and SLA seemed to have support.
•    The idea of taking the best programs from the NASIG conference on the road to local areas had a lot of support.  CEC will be looking at this for the coming year.
•    The idea of moving the conference from the typical May/June time to earlier in the year was discussed.  There were pros and cons for any month of the year.  The idea was tabled until the bids for 2011 are issued to hotels.

NASIG assuming editorial responsibility for The Serials Librarian

•    Emery spoke with Bev Ackerman and will be speaking with Bill Cohen.  A possible target date is late 2010.  This would give over a year to get a plan in place.
•    Emery noted that there would not be a collected volume for the conference.  Taylor & Francis are talking about 8 issues per year, so conference articles may need to spread out through these issues.  Lots of issues and ideas to be discussed in this process.

Proposal from UKSG for creation of award to have a NASIG member attend UKSG and then stay over for a week and work with a UK librarian, and have a UKSG member attend the NASIG conference then stay over for a week and work with a US librarian.

•    Emery noted that Sage and Taylor & Francis would sponsor this.
•    Need to have A&R develop a proposal for 2010.  Proposal should include how we will vet the applications and coordinate with UKSG.
•    Possibility of naming it after Rose Robischon.
•    Possibility of having a publisher that could work with a librarian and then the librarian could work with a publisher.

NASIG ‘s 25th Anniversary

•    Need to start a task force to write a history of NASIG.
•    Look at doing an oral history, perhaps look for some grant funding.