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Continuing Education Committee Minutes
January 10, 2004

Present:Mischa Buczkowski (Oregon), Jackie Byrd (Indiana), David Chroust (Texas A & M), Steve Corrsin (Wayne State), Beth Feinberg (UCLA), Sandra Levy (Chicago), Tatiana Lorkovic (Yale), Miranda Remnek (Illinois), Terri Miller (Michigan State), Dan Pennell (Pittsburgh), Janice Pilch (Illinois), Andy Spencer (Wisconsin), Marek Sroka (Illinois), Keith Westover (BYU), Cathy Zeljak (George Washington)

Future of the Continuing Education Committee: Since no chair had been appointed for this committee, SEES Chair Terri Miller led the discussion about the future of the Committee. As an introduction, Terri said that the future of SEES in general as well as the future of the Continuing Education Committee would be discussed at the upcoming Executive Committee meeting.

The discussion began with a brief history of the work of the committee, including:

• Mentoring for Slavic librarians
• Reports on travel, book-buying trips, etc.
• Handbooks for librarians new to the field of Slavic librarianship
• Input into the organization of Slavic Cataloging Workshop held at the 2002 Summer Slavic Librarians' Workshop at the Univ. of Illinois

In a more general discussion about the committee, the comments included:

• Over time the bibliographers stopped being active in SEES and went to AAASS instead, so SEES has become more of a cataloging group. SEES should play up its cataloging strength.
• The Continuing Education Committee has been very small, and, as a whole, the members were inactive, although a few individual members did a great deal of work
• The AAASS Digital Library Working Group could collaborate with the Continuing Education Committee
• Virtual meetings would allow more Slavic librarians to participate on this and other committees
• Could the committee interact more with students in library schools interested in Slavics?
• Could the committee coordinate reports from individual libraries?

Terri gave some details about a proposal she had planned for the Executive Committee meeting. When it was difficult to find someone to run for SEES president, it became clear that a restructuring or downsizing of SEES was needed. Part of the proposed downsizing Terri was proposing was the elimination of some committees, including the Continuing Education Committee. More details would be discussed at the Executive Committee meeting.

Submitted by Jackie Byrd

Last updated 5/17/04