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MALC Minutes
January 9, 2007

Virginia Bryan (MATC), Jack Faulkner-Becker (STP), Amanda Moss (Maywood Elementary School, Monona) (by phone), Jill Rosenshield (Special Colllections, UW Madison, Connie Von Der Heide (State Law Library), Michael Enyart (Business Library University of Wisconsin), Peggy Kindschi (Columbus Public Library), Cheryl Becker, Shawn Brommer

Minutes

The “minutes” of October 4, 2006, were approved by Michael Enyart and seconded by Jill Rosenshield with some corrections.  Shawn will update and post the corrections to the web site.

SCLS Report

Cheryl Becker said the new CE coordinator will be Jean Anderson, she starts on February 1.  Jean will be the new contact for this committee replacing Shawn Brommer and Cheryl Becker.

Legislative Day is January 23 registration deadline has passed but you can still participate just contact Cheryl.

Shawn Brommer discussed upcoming CE workshops check the CE web site for further information.  She also talked about the LSTA grants for family literacy, special needs, technology and delivery received by SCLS. 

Members are reminded to please share news via Online Update.   Do this by contacting Mark Ibach.

MALC Scholarship

The deadline is February 1st for the two scholarships to be given out each year for $150 each (one for in state and one out of state programs).  Information on the scholarships is on the MALC web site.  Shawn will send info to various lists to tell them about the scholarships.  She will put past winners on the web page.  Peggy Kindschi, Connine Von Der Heide, Amanda Moss, Shawn Brommer and Cheryl Becker volunteered to make up the committee to determine the winners for 2007.

Libraries who are not sure if you are part of MALC should contact Shawn.  Membership is free and available online. 

Job Shadowing

Cheryl Becker discussed the revised job shadowing guidelines.  She is still looking for libraries willing to participate.  We currently have five libraries a form is available online to volunteer your library for this project.  A discussion followed on directly contacting the different libraries to spread the word about this program.  A larger library can choose individual departments within to participate in the program.

MALC Activities

Shawn Brommer asked if anyone had any suggestions for other activities.  Past activities the committee is involved with is 1st Thursdays, pizza party and walking tours.  Committee members suggested doing a survey to see what the MALC community would like to see done.  A sub committee was established to come up with questions for the survey.  The committee includes Cheryl Becker, Jean Anderson, Shawn Brommer, Michael Enyart and Virginia Bryan.

Library News

Connie – Elaine Sharp retired after more than 20 years.  Amy Crowder now is head of tech services.  Carol Hassler will be the new web master she starts in March.

Jill – The top priority in the Google project on campus is to digitalize government documents.

Mike – The campus ran a survey looking at space utilization and how it could be repurposed which resulted in a number of changes.

Peggy – Our new Children’s Librarian started on January 3 and we still have one position open.

Jack – The “More Perfect Union” discussion is done.  We had an opportunity to speak with one of the authors of a book in the program.  One of the professions who was a moderator for the program has agreed to come back for Presidents Day to portray Thomas Jefferson.

Amanda – I and another librarian have been sharing ideas and working together on various projects.  We will have Keith Huggie coming for an author visit to both of our libraries soon.

Virginia – MATC conducted a survey and the number one complaint was noise at the Truax facility so we are working on that.  The downtown facility is adding more computers and working on a new web page.  Five staff members completed a section each for “HOWLER” take a look at it on our web site.

The next meeting is April 3 at 10 a.m. at SCLS Admin.

Respectfully submitted,

Peggy Kindschi, Columbus Public Library

For more information about Multitype Services, contact Jean Anderson.

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