Library Department

ShareNorthwest Regional Library Group
Fall Meeting Minutes
October 1, 2003

The fall meeting of the ShareNorthwest Regional Library Group held at
Erie’s East High School on October 1, 2003 was called to order by Mary
Drapcho, president , at 9:10 a. m. who welcomed all.

Committee Reports:

Periodical Union List (PUL)—Marion Bennett
1. The periodical union catalog is only available in pdf format .
2. The catalog can be located on the Intermediate Unit homepage under
News You Can Use….http://www.iu5.org/imts/resources/pul/2003 04.pdf
3. This will be the last year for the periodical union catalog.

Interlibrary Loan (ILL)—Lynda Knauf
1. The group was reminded that the charge for IDS mistakes is $30.00.
Double check addresses before mailing any book back in the IDS directory
found on the AccessPa web site.
2. Those who contacted IDS have gotten no satisfactory answers when
complaining about charge
3. Last spring John Emerick said we did not have to pay fines. Lynda
suggested that when a fine is received that the library call him and let
him know what is happening. Maybe he will be able to do something about
the situation. It appears that HSLC and IDS have not been working
together very well because addresses for libraries are different in each
database and maybe John can help in this area.
4. Lynda will also contact IDS and HSLC to see if she can get any
answers to the address and fine problem. She will let the membership
know results via email. She also suggested when individual libraries
have a problem that they should contact each entity to complain.

Curriculum—Annette McElroy—no report

Public Relations—Kathy Hannes
1. Kathy will step down as PR chair after this meeting.
2. Gail Crotty agreed to take on this position and discuss
reorganization of this committee

Electronic Communications—Peter Genco
1. Many districts have made changes in their servers and this causes
problems for our ShareNorthwest group email. Peter asked that anyone
who knew of changes in his/her district to please email him and he would
make the changes in our user list. A copy of his email was given to
everyone who attended the meeting for this purpose.
2. Peter suggested that just a couple of people be on LMNET and agree
to review messages forwarding anything of interest to the group

School/Public Library Liaison
1. A new chair is needed for this committee. Mary asked for a
volunteer.

Door Prize Committee
1. Mary asked for a chair for this newly formed committee
2. Peter Genco, Mary Drapcho and Jackie Baird have volunteered to work
together to carry out the duties of this committee rather than to have
just one chair.

Pennsylvania School Library Association (PSLA) rep—Priscilla Breese
1. There was a leadership training program for PSLA reps held in August

2. PSLA will be held in Hershey from April 28 to May 1, 2004. Speakers
include Harry Mong, Pam Munoz Ryan and Esme Raji Codiell.
3. The plagiarism topic that was suggested for this year’s Professional
Development Workshop was vetoed by the president. The topic will now be
the role of the school library media centers in literacy.
4. Mary Drapcho will be trained to present this workshop in our area.
Priscilla will notify us of the date, place and time when this will be
presented. Inservice and Act 48 credit will be offered.

Director’s Report—Marion Bennett (current spokeswoman)
1. Marion Bennett introduced Karen Baldwin who will be replacing former
director Marie Coy. Karen is currently waiting for confirmation from
the Department of Education, but is volunteering at the I.U. until
approved.
2. Ann Noonen would like an accurate listing of all libraries in the
tri county area whether or not they are Accesspa participants . Members
were asked to sign list which was circulated among the group.

Announcements:
1. Sharon Creech will be appearing at Borders bookstore on October 9 at
7:00 p.m. No numbers will be given. Participation will be on a first
come, first serve basis.
2. Borders will be having their annual teacher appreciation weekend
from October 10-12.
Librarians were reminded to bring proof of employment.
3. The annual AASL conference will be held October 23-26 in Kansas
City. Pittsburgh was next in line to hold the conference , but now will
not be host until 2005.
4. There will be a joint conference with ISLA and SLA of UK in Dublin
in June of 2004. It will be on the campus of Trinity College. The 2005
ISLA conference will be in Hong Kong
5. There was discussion of possibly having a group tour to Dublin for
the June ISLA conference.
6. International School Library Day is October 27, 2003. The theme is
“Breaking Down Barriers.” Peter will send an email to the group with
more information. If any library is doing anything to celebrate this
event, enter the information on the ISLA website and it will be
displayed for all to see. This day is recognized by ALA and CLA and
last year Julie Boam and East participated and noted it on the website.
7. Mary Drapcho introduced new librarians Melissa Leonard/Girard High
School and Betty Litke from Saegertown High School.

The business meeting was adjourned to begin program presentations.
These included information on WebFeet, a database of evaluated websites
presented by Claudia DiNardo from North East Middle School and Peter
Genco’s presentation of a variety of databases he uses at Fairview High
School including an evaluated website database called Nettreker.
Programs that work were presented in the afternoon by Karen Cunningham,
Dixie Gurdak and Jean Jenkins from Northwestern School District, Nicole
Drapcho from Wattsburg Elementary and Mary Drapcho from Erie’s Strong
Vincent High School. This was followed by book sharing groups
facilitated by Gail Crotty and Debbie Bevevino.

The meeting ended at 2:45 after door prizes were awarded.

Respectfully submitted

Jane Carney, Secretary