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Continuing Education Committee Minutes
June 16, 2001

Present: Joanna Dyla (Stanford), Tatiana G. Barr (Florida), Mischa Buczkowski (Oregon), Jackie Byrd (Indiana), Diana Green (NYU), Inna Gudanets (Stanford), Sandra Levy (Chicago), Janice Pilch (Illinois), Karen Rondesvedt (Stanford), Grazyna Slanda (Harvard), Marek Sroka (Illinois), Cathy Zeljak (George Washington)

Minutes: The minutes of the January 2001 meeting were approved.

Mentoring project: The status of the mentoring project was discussed. It was decided that the assignments made in January could still be done now, although people sending the letters would need to determine whether the names & email addresses of the contacts need to be updated. Grazyna Slanda will take over for Terri Tickle Miller, if Terri cannot complete her assignment, now that she is Chair of the Newsletter Committee. Points made during the discussion include:

• Joanna Dyla will work with ACRL's mentoring project for publicity, ideas, etc.
• It would be best if both an email and letter are sent to the contacts
• What will the committee do after the results of the letters are known?
• How do we find mentors? A plan is needed for when someone needs a mentor. Suggestions include using committee members, requesting volunteers from slavlibs
• The name, email, address, etc. of the new chair should be on the letters
• Mentoring cannot involve training

Committee membership: A new chair and members are needed for next year's committees. Volunteers for members should go to Jared Ingersoll and to ACRL. It was suggested that an email be sent to slavlibs after ALA to recruit committee members.

Future committee plans: Tatiana Barr suggested that the committee look into a SEES table during ALA conferences. It was unsure whether these were allowed at the section level. [After the meeting, Tatiana reported that she looked into this, and sections are not permitted to have these tables.]

Slavic NACO funnel: Joanna Dyla suggested the creation of a Slavic funnel for NACO, similar to ones existing for other language groups. This would serve institutions that do not have a NACO coordinator of their own. Mischa Buczkowski offered to be the coordinator for a Slavic funnel. Joanna will send a message to slavlibs to determine whether there is interest. If this moves forward, the Automated Bibliographic Control Committee may become involved.

Submitted by Jackie Byrd

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