CANADIAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (WESTERN) MEETING MINUTES
Exec. attendance: Robyn, Cas, Sam, Lukas, Melissa, Lee, Rita
Absent: Erin, Meghan
7 May 2013
Time: 12pm
Location: Grad Club Board Room
Introductions
(Sending around email sign-up)
UWO CLA(W) partnership with CLA and students
- career development, mentorship, and resume writing
- we have contact with CLA, we still have official status, $300 for us in their hands
Official meeting times?
Mondays? 4:30?
Tom: preferably noon
Thursday at noon, NCB 266 might keep it at the grad club
Green board will have updates
CLA – professional affiliation $25 membership fee
Join listserves, Feliciter access, additional job postings
Constitution
- redoing constitution
- we have the bare bones of it, there will be a constitution committee meeting
- official roles, rules, policies, values,
Future projects
- One-day career planning workshop, tickets, keynote speaker, resume writing and interview skills, career choices
- Talking with the moderator this week
Q: membership fee? what publication?
Robyn: it’s monthly publication, comes up in courses, opportunity to write for them, complete access to their website, for a year
Q: affiliation between different associations (CLA and OLA)?
R: all separate, CLA all of Canada, different associations, CLA government libraries
Find out where you want to have your specialty
CLA is wherever your interest is, not specific to different types of libraries
Extra curriculars is what makes you stand up
Q: how long are the meetings? Are they weekly?
R: there will be events so they will be weekly and no more than an hour, we don’t want to take away from your responsibilities for school,
First term reps? Next week we can do a Facebook post with a list of duties, have a write up ready, and we’ll have an election
Lee: spread the word, there will be a pizza luncheon in two weeks
R: Thursday May 16th for representation elections: short blurb, 3min or less. You will represent your cohort officially
If this is the kind of audience, it should be an official role
Will get in touch with the cons committee this week
Duties: You’ll get small jobs, you’ll be able to give input, see a gap in your professional development? Bring it to us.
Blog posts? Writers? R: first post this week revival
Can be about any issue, something in your course, 250, social media updated often, minimal effort. Tom will write the next one by Friday May 17th
Meeting with professional group for the conference
TOM: cons meeting will meet? R: anyone who wants to be involved?
R: we can cater to what you want to get out of the group
We can Skype in guest-speakers
MEETING ADJOURNED.
