HEART meeting

Friday June 28th

The Pub, Trolley Square

3:30 pm

In attendance:

Erica Lake, LDS Hospital Library, Chair (ldelake@ihc.com) 408-1054

Molly Youngkin, Eccles Library, Vice-Chair (mollyy@lib.med.utah.edu) 587-3493

Amy Birks, Eccles Library, Past-Chair (amybirks@lib.med.utah.edu) 581-5282

Jeanne Le Ber (Eccles Library) Member (jeannele@lib.med.utah.edu) 587-6744

Nancy Lombardo (Eccles Library) Member (nancyl@lib.med.utah.edu) 581-5241

Alice Weber (Eccles Library) Member at large (aweber@lib.med.utah.edu) 587-9247

Dawn Carroll (Primary Children’s Hospital Library) (PCDCARR1@ihc.com) 588-2430

 

Agenda:

 

1.              Approval of last meeting's minutes.

            -Minutes approved.

 

2.             Secretary

      -Erica recently received notice that our past choice for secretary will not be able to fill the position this year.  Erica asked for a volunteer, and Amy said that she would serve as Secretary this year.  She will take notes, and turn them over to Nancy to post to the web.

 

3.   New Members 

-We discussed different ways to both welcome new members, and invite participation from others.

-Create invitations and posters to publicize the roundtable.

-Welcome new members by e-mail or even telephone.  Erica had already sent out e-mail to new members, but had not yet received a strong response.

-Encourage participation by talking to Pam Foster, who is in charge of Emporia State Universities Utah Group of MLS students.  Discussed talking with Jo Davies at the County Library System to encourage participation from the system librarians.  Discussed contacting Sally Patrick, who now works for the Regional Medical Library, via Eccles Library.  She has contacts in the City Library System.

 

4.  Review of ULA 2002 Annual Conference.

-We discussed how the Poster sessions seemed to go over well.  We also discussed how our programs went well, but participation at some was lower than we like.  We conversed about conflicting time with the keynote speaker.

 

5.  Review of June 21st ULA board meeting.

    -Training Meeting:

    -Board Meeting:  need to update membership information.  The procedure

     manual  almost complete.  Operational Budgets are due July 31st, and Molly

    will check when Program Budgets are due when she goes to the next Program

    Board  Meeting on July 31st.

 

6.  Goals and Objectives for 2002-2003.

    -Changes were made.  These changes will be posted to the web.

 

7.  WebPages corrections, updates, etc.

     -Erica gave her copy of the changes she noted, to Nancy.  Need to contact Nancy with

    new changes.

 

8.  Fall Workshop, September 27th, 2002 Brigham City Public Library, Brigham City,  UT.

    -We talked about a repeating the Medlineplus presentation, but including consumer     

    health information.

     Another possible topic was that of Medically related collection development.  Dawn 

    mentioned that the YA Round Table might be interested in cosponsoring this

    presentation.

   -Repeat of Toxins in the Environment?  Discussed how they would be teaching to a

   different audience.

 

9.  Operational and program budget requests for 2002/2003 year.

      -As noted above, due on July 31st.  We discussed needed funds, $50.00 for roundtable

     posters and invitations.

 

10.  Annual Conference

      -Possible Keynote speaker Andrew Weil?  Could be good PR for him.  We would

     first invite him; if he said yes, we would go to the Program Board, and ask them to

     official invite him.

     -Repeat of Toxins in the Environment presentation.

 

11..   Plan next meeting date.  Molly is going to find out when Program Budgets are  

     due, and we are going to plan our next meeting around that date.