January 2001 Task Force Conference Call Minutes

January 2001 Task Force Report to the SLA Board

April 2001 Task Force Report to the SLA Board

Task Force Charge: Prepare a membership definition Create a virtual member category for a trial audience Redesign the student category to attempt to offer SLA virtual membership to all qualified students at no charge Design a flexible plan to allow all members to choose member services: NEW for June 8, 2000! Tom Rink's pay-per-view membership proposal. Link to Membership Comparison Data Link to SLA Document Sample Link to Task Force Assumptions Comparison of SLA Membership draft documents (May 19, 2000 and June 6, 2000)	Background: In a facilitated strategic planning session in January 2000, the SLA Board of Directors selected four major areas as priority targets for change.  task forces to work on vital aspects of the future of the association. One of those areas was membership--who do we want, what do they want, and how do we provide it. Membership will be the concern of this Task Force. For further background information on SLA membership, please consult this URL http://www.sla.org/content/ memberservice/index.cfm
Assignmments: (Priority) 1. Prepare a proposal for presentation to the Board of Directors at their June Annual Meeting, 2000. Financial implications of all recommendations should be included in the proposal. [Note: . The Task Force is requested to apply stretch and innovative thinking to the project and to look at models of other associations of similar size and mission. ] Assignments: (TBA)	Goals of the Membership Task Force (UPDATED 6/7/00): identifying the members of the future expanding SLA globally determining why people belong to SLA, and what they want from their membership treating members as individuals creating membership benefits to be relevant to new professionals and changing professionals broadening SLA's recruitment efforts attracting people who are attracted to e-commerce focusing on mentoring retaining student members after they graduate (add a young members roundtable?) adopting a certification process
Communication:      All of the work of the group will be accomplished electronically or by telephone. There may be a meeting at Annual Conference at the discretion of the chair. All members of SLA will benefit from the work of this group.      Electronic mailing list will be launched as soon as all the task members will be on board.	Other Reports: Icenhower's SLA Member Retention Program

Link to Task Force Archived Email Messages	Link to Task Force Discussion List "slataskforce" from 4-4-2000
Link to Catalog of Membership Reports to SLA Board	Link to SLA Bylaws: Article II, Membership

MEMBERSHIP TASK FORCE

SLA Board Proctor: Lynn Berard	SLA Staff Liaison: Doug Newcomb
Task Force Chair: Thomas Rink	Task Force Member: Bill Fisher
Task Force Member: Christy Confetti Higgins	Task Force Member:
Task Force Member: Theresa Connaughton	Task Force Member: Terri Brooks
Task Force Member: Carol Williams	SLA Task Forces' Monitors: Stephen Abram Donna Scheeder Susan Dimattia

 

Board Proctor:         G. Lynn Berard (1999-2002)
                                    Carnegie Mellon University
                                    Engineering Science Library
                                    Wean Hall
                                    Pittsburgh, PA 15213
                                              Work phone:    412/268-2428
                                               Fax:                412/681-1998
                                               Email:               lberard@andrew.cmu.edu

SLA Staff Liaison:            Doug Newcomb, Managing Director, Communication
                                            Special Libraries Association
                                            1700 18th Street, N.W.
                                            Washington, DC 20009-2514
                                                    Work Phone:    202/234-4700, ext 676
                                                    Fax:                   202/265-9317
                                                    Email:                 doug@sla.org

 Task Force Members

            Terri Brooks
            Investment Company Inst.
            Library Services
            1401 H Street N.W.
            Washington, DC 20005
                    Work Phone:         202/326-5904
                    Fax:                        202/326-8309
                    Email:                     brooks@ici.org

            Theresa Connaughton
            Los Alamos National Laboratory
            Information & Records Management
            P.O. Box 1663 MS-A150
            Los Alamos, NM 87545
                    Work Phone:        505/665-7881
                    Fax:                       505/665-4480
                    Email:                     tgc@lanl.gov

            Bill Fisher
            San Jose State University
            Graduate Studies & Research
            San Jose, CA 95192
                    Work Phone:        408/924-2496
                    Fax:                       408/924-2476
                    Email:                    fisher@sjsu.edu

Christy Confetti Higgins, 
Sun Microsystems Information Specialist
901 San Antonio Rd.
Sun Microsystems, SunLibrary
SCA15-101
Palo Alto, 94303
        Work Phone:    408/ 276-3316 (x33316)
        Fax:                  408/ 276-3365 (x33365)
        Email:               christy.confetti@sun.com
        WWW:            http://SunLibrary.corp

Carol Williams
BC Securities Commission Library
200-865 Hornby Street,  10th Floor
Vancouver, BC    
Canada    B6Z 2H4
            Work Phone:     604/899-6680
            Fax:                   604/899-6700
            Email:                 cwilliams@bcsc.bc.ca

Chair, Task Force on Membership
Thomas Rink
Tulsa Police Department
Training & Development Division
6066 E. 66th Street N
Tulsa, OK 74117-1811
            Work Phone:     918/591-4528
            Fax:                   918/699-3716
            Email:                 trink@ci.tulsa.ok.us