Library Department

ShareNorthwest Regional Library Group
Fall Meeting Minutes
November 1, 2005Melissa Leonard called the fall meeting of the ShareNorthwest Regional Library Group, held at Fairview Middle School on November 1, 2005, to order at 9:00 AM. 53 people were in attendance. Melissa introduced our host Debbie Honard. Debbie then introduced Fairview Superintendent Larry Kessler and Principal Steve Ferringer. Minutes were approved from the spring meeting. The treasurer reported was distributed.

Committee Reports:
Interlibrary Loan (ILL) - Lynda Knauff - No report
1. Lynda is on leave; Marion Bennett agreed to be interim committee chair.

Electronic Communications - Peter Genco
1. Peter urged everyone to send updates to him pgenco@iu05trc.iu5.org

School/Public Liaison - Gail Myer - No Report

Professional Organizations-Peter Genco
1. AASL had 4,000 attendees - largest ever.
2. AASL Reno is next national conference 2007
3. AASL has a biannual conference - off years they have a “mini-conference”.
4. AASL 2005 handouts are available now for a limited time.
5. PSLA in Hershey this MAY
6. IASL Lisbon Portugal 2006 - Sydney 2007
7. International School Library Day was last week.

Inservice Committee - Lynda Knauff No Report

Professional Development - Julie Boam
Governor’s Institute on Information Literacy will take place this summer.

Director’s Report - Karen Baldwin
1. Fall Director’s Meeting canceled.
2. ShareNorthwest directory will be coming out soon. There was a delay due to a computer virus.
3. You can deliver materials within ShareNorthwest via the IU van. A delivery schedule is available on the IMTS web site.

New Business
1. Everyone introduced himself or herself since we had 8 new librarians with us.
2. It was reported that Teresa Sculley retired from Wayne Middle School

The business meeting adjourned at 9:45 AM. Afterwards there was three break out sessions: Collection Development, Book Sharing and National Library Week promotions. After lunch Julie Boam and Mary Koenig presented Getting Teachers More Involved -A lesson from the Governor’s Institute for Informational Literacy. The day ended at 3:00 PM after door prizes were awarded.

Respectfully submitted,
Jeanne Rose