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Newsletter Committee Minutes
June 27, 2004
Present: Terri Miller (Michigan State), Jackie Byrd (Indiana), Marta
Deyrup (Seton Hall), Soobum Kim (Stanford), Janice Pilch (Illinois), Marek
Sroka (Illinois)
Attendance: Terri Miller reported that several committee members
were unable to attend the meeting, but that much of the committee's
business was taken care of via email in advance of the meeting
Budget Report: Reporting for Alan Urbanic, Terri said that all
SEES Newsletters were mailed via 1st class this year. We had been paying
for 1st class postage only for those Newsletters going to active SEES
members. However, because of reduced SEES membership, we no longer have
enough inactive members to qualify for bulk postage for those Newsletters.
We had to choose between sending all Newsletters via 1st class or bulk
rate, and we had enough of a budget surplus that we opted for sending all
via 1st class mail.
Terri also reported that the Newsletter budget continues to be in good
shape.
Digitizing Old Issues: Terri and Kay Sinnema will work on
digitizing the old Newsletters and making them available via the WWW,
beginning with those issues that are in an electronic format. The
digitized issues will be in PDF format.
Upcoming Issue: Terri reported the following on the 2005
Newsletter issue:
- Libraries in Profile: June Farris has agreed to write a
profile of the University of Chicago's Slavic Collection. This will fit
well with the fact that the ALA Annual Conference will be in Chicago in
2005.
- Current Assignments: In email exchanges Newsletter Committee
members expressed contentment with their current assignments and will keep
them for the 2005 issue.
- Trip Reports: No one has yet agreed to write a trip report
for this issue.
- ALA Panels: Jackie Byrd will write a report on the Unicode
Panel for both CRL News and for the SEES Newsletter. There were no
volunteers to write a report for the "Square Peg" panel.
- Cover: Terri will contact NYP about images being digitized
there for possible use for cover art.
Submitted by Jackie Byrd
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