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REFORMA DC METRO AREA CHAPTER Wednesday, 11/14/07 at
The Library of Congress-Hispanic Reading Room Meeting called to order
at 3:08pm In attendance: Lucia Acin-Andion (REFORMA-DC Vice President) Everette Larson (member) Michelle Hinojosa Melencio (REFORMA-DC Secretary) AnaRita Puertas-Myers (REFORMA-DC Treasurer) Betty Valdes (REFORMA-DC President) Marisa Grijalva Minutes (from
Last Meeting) “Everette” was spelled incorrectly on the minutes for October.. Otherwise approved. REFORMA Brochure Need some information on the “about us” section for the brochure. Focus on the DC Chapter history. What are the benefits if they become a member of Reforma? What can they bring? What can we do to help our neighbors? Target the professionals inside the profession who have a piece to change policy. People inside the organization who can do that. Try to get people who work inside the libraries and at the same time, people who support the libraries. Need a neutral message on the brochure. Need a message not only targeted at librarians, but at the community. We need accomplishments. What we’ve done. Where we’re going. AnaRita is going to suggest 250 copies of the brochure when it’s done to Mario (in-kind donation). There is a free phone/voicemail option where messages would be forwarded to email. AnaRita will discuss at a later date. Pre-Reyes party January 4th party---Betty will not be here. We need to figure out another date. Other party dates could focus on the following:
We need to get together, bring people back. Pick a date and work towards that. A potluck dinner. Tenative dateà Saturday, 1/26. Betty’s meeting: Department of Library and Development Services. Betty’s
meeting was a very good meeting. She was surprised there was a lot of
interest in knowing about things we’re doing that can benefit them and vice
versa. She heard that they were interested in REFORMA assisting them with the
collection development area in some of their systems. They are interested in some training on
community needs assessments in the Latino community and cultural awareness.
Betty made contacts with people from PG and As President of the chapter, Betty is going to be on Digital Television on Tuesday, 12/4. She will be on the panel “The Digital Television DTV Transition”. How libraries reach out to the special communities who will be particularly impacted by the DTV transition, such as the elderly, low income, and minority populations. More information can be found on ALA.org/dtv. Everette’s Thoughts Partnerships with other organizations are great. But we don’t have enough people. We’re spread too thin. We’d be delighted to partner up with other organizations, but it’d be according to the needs and availability. Ultimately, we need to bring in people who aren’t librarians, but paraprofessionals…it’s an opportunity to enhance their career by serving in a leadership role in REFORMA. This gives them a chance. It’s necessary for people to learn about the wide community of librarians. Annual
Conference— No one is going? REFORMA National AnaRita is going. So is Marisa. They might be getting together with the Spanish-language outreach groups. ASIS&T/ARL
networking dinner: A networking dinner with ASIS&T and ARL will be taking place on Thursday, 12/13, 6pm at the Greek Taverna, near the Library of Congress. Website— We should all reflect on what we want to see on the website. AnaRita can help remotely with Lucia and Michelle, who would like to get together to update the website when they can. Tax-ID Tax-ID was taken care of. Account was taken care of (account switchover-names). Next meeting
date--- Lucia will try to see about hosting on 12/12 at the Takoma Park Community Service. 3-5pm. Action Items: Action Item: DC Chapter History—Michelle (ask DC-list-serve). Send info to AnaRita when you can. This is for the brochure. Action Item: Mario’s house or ARL available for January? Lucia will ask for 1/26. Action Item: AnaRita
is meeting with OCLC, she will ask if we can use
their facilities. Whatever time they
have available. Meeting Adjourned At: 4:40pm |