Meeting: October 13, 2009

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Agenda

Minutes of the Meeting

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Agenda

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1. Advocay – Chau to update

   1. Petition to support Librarians

   2. Draft letter

2. Job Fair Update

   1. Chau to update

   2. Bill – foyer booking

   3. Tables and prices

3. President’s Visit

   1. Ticket sales for Wed/Thur/Fri – sign-up

   2. Reminder about commitment

4. Mentorship Update

5. Networking Update

6. Penpal Update - Melissa

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Minutes of the Meeting

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CLA Meeting Minutes for October 13

Secretary absent-Monica filled in

Chau-left at 12:30 for work

Librarian Strike

• Discussed the reasons for the strike: low wages, work value

• CAUT-41 university libraries, Western ranked 39^th, out of 49. Librarians are paid $65 000 a year-Western librarians are paid $15 000 below that average

• Issues with economic climate: young age of staff, tend to move on and leave as they have no economic incentive to stay

• Gary presented a letter-we planned to edit, copy it and obtain signatures

President’s Visits

• We scheduled people to sell tickets for the visit

Penpal Program

• Melissa took care of the program

Fundraising

• Buttons-Sarah confirmed designs

• Candy Grams-confirmed

Job Fair

• Chau spoke to Gloria Leckie

• We need to find out if there’s employer interest first

• Bill-proposed that Chau draft a letter to send out to ALA and CLA public library list serve asking if there’s interest to hold a job fair, if the time’s right (for Feb)