January+15,+2008

=ISLU Meeting Minutes=

Agenda
1. Welcome and Introductions 2. Debbie Naylor - UELMA's incoming president http://www.uelma.org

3. Presentation at UELMA - Pam and Jan 4. E-mail change If your e-mail changes, please send me an email with the notation that this is new.

5. Needs for next year Co-chair - host and plan the meetings. Keep the membership list up-to-date. Send out e-mails.

6. Library sites and databases 7. Books John Nutall's request

[|CLAU] - Becky Hall Pam's books (in process) [|Newberry and Caldecott] winners

8. Meeting date - April 8th

=Minutes=

January 15, 2008
Attendees: John Nutall, Lynn Londsdale, Michelle Armstrong, Pam Stone, Jan Duane, Becky Hall, Debbie Naylor

John Nutall from Blessed Sacrament introduced himself and told us all about his job and his library. We discussed all of our staffing needs.

Michelle Armstrong reintroduced herself. She volunteers at the Madeline Choir School & has a MA in Elec. Engineering She started out volunteering for 20 hrs. but is now grappling with the frustrations of volunteering. She asked about Pioneer and about MLS and library certification programs..

Debbie Naylor, the in-coming President of UELMA, was our guest speaker today. She wants to know how the organization can help ISLU. She reminded everyone that the UELMA conference is on March 6 in Ogden. The Hampton Inn is where you can stay if you wish. Pam Stone and Jan Duane will be presenting their ideas and experience in making libraries welcoming.

Data bases that others have: Waterford & Rowland Hall have JStore (for HS). The rest use Pioneer only. Debbie suggested signing up for the one-day Pioneer professional development classes. They are excellent and FREE.

Becky discussed the Children's Literature Association of Utah (CLAU) ([|www.clau.org]). It announces awards for Picture books, Middle grade and Young adult fiction, nonfiction and poetry selections. The children of the state vote for their favorites later in the spring. The next year's nominees are announced at the UELMA conference.

Lynn Lonsdale would like to publicize the opening for her job at Waterford. She will be retiring next year. May I take a moment to say that Lynn was the backbone of this organization for a long time. Thank you for years of dedication, Lynn. We will miss you! I have included her announcement as an attachment with this document

Finally we discussed the future of ISLU. Attendance is dwindling. Becky is stepping down and Jan will be the assistant next year. We need someone to take over the presidency. The duties would include: Co-chair –host and plan the meetings Keep the membership list up-to-date Send out the emails

Please let us know what you want from ISLU; how can we help you? What do you expect from our professional organization? Our needs as independent schools are often different from those of the public schools. For that reason, we have our own separate organization. At our next meeting we will discuss the needs of our members and how we should proceed with ISLU.

Pioneer committee has been meeting about the following: Revising the look of the website Making Pioneer more accessible and easier to access: possibly by authenticating all Utah users. Adding different resources for everyone such as citation software, home and gardening and any others we can think of that all Utahans would be interested in. Advertising and reaching out to more users. Creating a mission statement

MARC RECORDS There are certainly more libraries with great information. If you have a favorite, please send Jan the URL and she will send it out to the group.

http://marinet.lib.ca.us/

http://olc1.ohiolink.edu/search

http://205.247.101.11/search Pennsylvania

http://catalog.loc.gov/

http://catalog.slcpl.org/

http://elibrary.mel.org/search

http://clicnet.clic.edu/

http://odol-agent.auto-graphics.com/agent/login.asp?cid=odol&lid=odol use the password: guest and click on GO. We use Okalahoma, Tennessee, Kansas, and TLC.

The next meeting will be at Rowland Hall (720 Guardsman Way in Salt Lake on APRIL 8th)