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Readers' Section Business Meeting May 4, 2006
Minutes from the October 27, 2005 business meeting were approved.
WAPL: "Notable Books Genre" was held this morning and was well attended. Gary, Bev, and Maureen were on the panel. Our second program, "Read 'Em Their Writes" (Gary), is scheduled for tomorrow morning. WLA: We will sponsor the notable books marathon again this year - James Gollata, Helene Androski, Gary, and Bev will be on the panel. Gary is planning to do a book discussion session. He's looking for an environment-related fiction book to discuss. Someone suggested "Prodigal Summer: A Novel" by Barbara Kingsolver. Please let him know if you have any additional suggestions. We'll mention whichever book he decides to go with in upcoming WLA and READ newsletters so attendees will have a month or more to read the book before the conference. Gary received a George Bower Foundation grant to travel to China this past year as part of a librarian study tour. He thought that, in light of this, it might be interesting to hold a discussion on a Chinese-oriented book or a book by a Chinese American author. He is also considering doing a bibliography of such books. He'll email the other people who were on the tour to see if they have any book recommendations. Wisconsin Book Festival - we'll be sponsoring two book discussion groups at this year's festival. The chosen books will be by authors who are featured at the festival. However, the authors will not be attending the book discussions. WAAL: Helene Androski presented a session entitled "Nature Writing to Inspire and Console".
The speakers' bureau form is now on our Web site. Three people have filled them out so far. Jamie created a link to the Wisconsin Authors Web page. We had a short discussion on the possibility of using wiki to keep the Wisconsin Authors page updated. Should we talk to Stef about the possibility of getting this off the ground? Or could we post a Web form that people could fill out on an author which would turn into an email message sent to the chair (who could then post the information on the Web page)? We haven't done much thinking about the links on our Web page recently. What's still useful? What isn't? Should we add more links? Should we make the site more interactive?
Mary is still the newsletter editor and is always looking for articles. Should we continue to have a print newsletter or should we start doing an electronic one? Should we post it to our Web page and email the membership to let them know that it's there? Maureen will check the bylaws to see what our options are.
Maureen is working on the budget. Mileage for committee members is paid by WLA. The WLA Foundation also provides some funding. We have approximately $2000 in the READ budget, but we're encouraged to use this money to fund conference speakers. Maureen has appointed three people to the committee this year: Susan Belsky, Margaret Canary, and Rhonda Puntney.
We had a short discussion on recruiting for next year's board. We'll need a vice chair/chair elect. Trish is interested in running for secretary again if it's possible (we'll check the bylaws). Jamie and Katie are members-at-large. Desiree will check to see if they need to be elected again this year. Dick asked about the responsibilities of vice chair/chair elect. The primary responsibility is programming. The vice chair doesn't necessarily have to plan all the programs, but he/she is responsible for coordinating program planning and filling out all necessary paperwork. We talked briefly about some program ideas. Gary has some ARRT (Adult Reading Roundtable - a Chicago-area group) and PLA contacts who have have done a lot of innovative things with reader's advisory. We could possibly invite David Wright or Katie Mediatore (or both) to do a session on what men read and what women read, or maybe plan something on narrative nonfiction. Or we could do a session on how to do reader's advisory. Gary talked a little about ARRT and wondered if at some point we could meet jointly with them - maybe we could invite them to have a workshop in Lake Geneva to coincide with the next WLA conference that is held there. They're essentially a group of Chicago-area librarians who do genre studies. They allot two years for each genre. We thought it might be interesting and helpful to get to know them. They have a Web site if anyone is interested in learning more about their activities. Maureen will send an announcement out on the READ list about vacancies once we determine how many vacancies we'll have.
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