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ALAAnnual2007_GODORTLegI
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GODORT Legislation I
06.22.2007
Welcome/Intro
- thank-you note for Bruce James
- similar to FDTF, perhaps more online participation?
- Mary Mallory unable to attend
- GPO budget is on Leg. III agenda
Approval of Agenda
Approval of Midwinter Minutes
Legislation Committee Wiki
- is the wiki free or paid for by ALA?
- no one is sure (so most likely yes it is free)
- Jesse Silva: (handouts)
- http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/wikis/legcom/
- pwd: (hamster-like ate)
- current members: add member information to wiki page (after meeting)
- instructions are included in the handout
Legislation Committee Website
- Collage easier to use than the other CMS
- looking at all resolutions; trying to get them all linked to each thing (get rid of dead links)
- think about what we want to put on the page
- last training online
- cleaned page, and tried to get old information off
FOIA statement for OK Library Association
- waiting on another member to join... table for the moment
- Amy charged Mary and Kevin with drafting a stmt. that the OKLA could use when they have a viable FOIA request
- simple, short letter to remind an agency of their responsibility under FOIA
- others could use it
Revisions to Policy and Procedures Manual (PPM)
- has anyone noticed any changes important enough to address?
- Kevin: PPM makes reference to a Web Manager for the Comm.; what about a wiki manager--should it be the same person, etc.? we're set for now, but what about a year from now?
Strategies for National Action Alert Network (NAAN)
- Jesse is our new national action alert coordinator
- any issue of consequence... a lot of leeway there
- how this came up: Amy asks Mary and Kevin to form an advocacy plan for Leg. Comm.
- talking about breaking down depositories by congress. districts, see who was represented by which depos., etc.
- found themselves wishing we had it ready to go when the GPO budget issue came up
- a message from GODORT through this might have been a more effective way of getting the message out
- first requires approval of the GODORT chair
- Legis. would craft message
- go to chair for approval; would make sure everyone is on the same page
- passes message along to regionals; from there on to locals through various means of communication
- important thing is to get the message out there to as many locales as possible
- this is good for any case where a quick response is needed
- Cathy H.: hard part will be keeping the list up to date
- as a comm., haven't discussed: send them a list of vacancies (to Jesse)
- when was the last time this was used?
- prefer not to start from scratch; would like to involve those who participated in the past
Letter of Thanks for Bruce James
- Amy came up with something; note to Judy Russell already sent
- is this a letter that we want to send?
- why are we doing this? does it gain something for GODORT?
- has it been standard protocol? (unknown, but very relevant)
- can we get someone to look into this to find examples?
- we probably did do this for the previous public printer; he was very helpful
- maybe little to lose by doing it; but what do we gain by it, what precedent does it set?
- who raised the question? Mary, probably
- what was her reasoning?
How Could this Comm. Make Use of Virtual Members?
- just the cost of an ALA membership may be an institutional barrier
- hoping there could be some specific roles we could have in mind for such members
- at Kevin's own local govdoc librarians--mostdon't come to ALA or aren't members, but might participate virtually
- any specific ideas?
- drafting resolutions
- but they should be ALA members
- that might keep a lot of people out b/c of lack of funds
- is there a way to give them an official title? good for them for review times--more incentive
- letter from the Chair to endorse this to their institution (or other documentation)
- at one person's library, there is a lot of this virtual participation and it works well
- virtual members not voting members?
- perhaps only non-voting at a physical meeting
- doesn't make much sense; could sign them in online or cellphone with speaker
- is the only difference their physical presence?
- participation virtually vs. member virtually--what's the definition of the fine line?
- we're talking about an appointed member to a committee - but requiring a specific participation
Initiate a Regular Online Meeting Time?
- meeting online once a week, one hour, for five weeks
- was a little slower than a F2F meeting
- bringing people together at the same time, things seem to get done
- perhaps once a month, if Leg. Comm. could get together for an hour
- Jesse mentioned using Meebo to do it; everyone seems very positive about this idea
- we will talk about that more in Leg. III
- task force chats were nice to touch base with everyone, and make sure that everyone is following through
- start this maybe 2-3 weeks after ALA Annual
- so... what would Leg. do at Midwinter if we finished all our work?
Back to OK Libraries Topic
- a couple of years ago, OLA member was concerned about this
- wanted to be able to send a letter to their congressman, but send it under a professional association, so it would have more clout
- this takes a lot of time, so:
- could do this by email when it comes up; get ALA GODORT to create some language/paragraph that would be standard and approved by ALA for future use
- wouldn't take as long to approve subsequent letters; perhaps only a day
- better for timeliness of critical votes
- gone through several iterations
- look at the language, think about the types of situations you're writing the letter for, and what you'd like to say to that congressman or agency
- push this out to other state library associations
- might get more national members if we can offer them more services, and this would be a great one
- first two ALA principles on govdocs really mesh with what we want to convey
- is there anything that needs to be added to this, or is it ready?
- need to take back to OLA and see what they think
- let them know it's been approved by ALA Council
- if that's suitable for them, then might be ready to move forward
Adjourn at 5:08pm EST
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