Diversity Committee Minutes for June 13th, 2002
Next meeting: Barbara will meet with the Diversity Committee
Day: June 27, 2002
Time: 1:10PM
Location: Room 605.
Present: Thura Mack (Chair), Tiffani Conner, Sandy Leach, Maribeth Manoff, Anne Pemberton
Molly Royse, Anthony Smith, Renee Smith, Becky Roller (Recorder)
New Membership
Five people have volunteered to be on the Diversity Committee. Some of the applicants have indicated an interest in serving on the committee for almost a year. The committee will recommend to Barbara all five volunteers be accepted. Thura will give their names to Barbara. Thura will also ask the Dean if she would like to invite the new members to the next meeting on June 27th. The committee agreed the volunteers should be notified of their appointment by the Dean.
Update on LAMA TLA Planning
Molly reviewed the progress of the LAMA Planning subgroup (Thura, Jill, Molly, Tiffani, Becky). Anyone else interesting in helping out will be very welcomed. The group decided to have a half-day session rather than a full-day session. They are in the process of researching the various “ingredients” listed in the grant request under “Proposed flyer”:
Ingredients:
Get Involved
Develop a Mission Statement for your Library – Jill (and definition)
Learn how to conduct a climate survey – Molly
Collaborate with Others – Tiffani
Identify issues, barriers
Learn what your library can do to heighten awareness in
your community
Share Your Knowledge and Experience – Thura
Bring examples of your library’s best practices; see
firsthand what others have done; learn about successful
programs elsewhere
Spread the Word – everyone
Take away ideas and information including a handbook of
Activities, useful websites, suggestions for programs, and
Educational resources
They will present their research at the July 25th Diversity Committee meeting.
Anne shared the responses she received from her query to the TLA Listserve about what other libraries are doing to promote diversity. The responses are of limited use for our proposed TLA workshop. It was suggested Anne could post another more “pointed” question, but it was thought she would not receive any greater response. There was a general discussion regarding what people would be looking for should they attend our workshop. Molly said she could ask the group which formed after the Iowa Diversity Conference for their thoughts.
ALA Diversity Poster Session Display
The ALA Diversity Poster was on display at the meeting. Martha Rudolph’s work on the banners and signs is fabulous. Molly says they will have about fifteen minutes to set it up. They will be presenting it twice at ALA; at the Diversity Fair and again during the regular ALA Poster session.
The committee felt it would be nice to be display the poster session in the first floor display case this fall. It was also suggested there be additional signs at the Library entrances. Molly will check with Martha Rudolph to see if the display case could be reserved for this purpose this fall. It was also suggested the signs be put on “PowerPoint” so they can be linked to the Diversity website. Molly thought it might be linkable from the ALA Diversity Fair webpage.
The committee then went to the small group meetings for DC Budget and DC Timeline. In future committee meetings, time will be allowed at the end of each meeting for the small groups to meet so they do not have to schedule additional meetings.