LiSA Minutes
August 24, 2004
SML, Room 409

Members Present:  Kelly Shand, Mary Bradway, Stephen Yearl, Ruth Carruth, Suzanne Mirabile, Amanda Patrick, and Cesar Zapata.

Also Present: Diane Turner

Members Absent:  Diana Quinones (Chair), Lolly Lee, Stephen Cohen, Marybeth Bean, Kathleen Burns, and Bernadette Cioffi.

Meeting convened at 12:00 p.m.

Children's Book Drive
This year the University and the Library are teaming up with New Haven Reads and the United Way for the annual Children’s Book Drive for New Haven children. This will be the second time that it is a campus wide drive. Last year we collected 3,007 books. Our goal for this year is 4,000-5,000 books. These books will be distributed to schools, doctor’s offices, and to the children themselves via New Haven Reads.

Because of this we are not looking for books only in English. If there are books in Spanish or an Asian language it will be appreciated. Also new or gently used books only.

The drive will start on Friday September 10, 2004 and end on the following Friday September 17, 2004. Boxes will be placed at strategic points around campus.

Places mentioned were all library circulation desks, the Payne Whitney Gym, the dining halls, the Yale Bookstore, the museums and art galleries, and the Yale Health Plan.

Amanda Patrick volunteered to coordinate with the circulation desks through the library. Suzanne Mirabile is going to ask at the gym if they would have a box. Ruth Carruth will coordinate with the dining halls. Mary Bradway will contact the Health Plan. Stephen Yearl will contact the galleries and museums. Kelly Shand will contact the Yale Bookstore. Also she was asked to be the contact person at Divinity for their circulation desk and the dining hall.

Publicity for this event has already started with e-mails going to all students asking them to bring one children’s book with them to school. Advertisements will be seen in the Yale Daily News, Working At Yale, Library Links, the Yale Bulletin and Calendar and the Divinity School Q Source. Also Diane Turner was going to check with Julie Linden to see if the front door of the Web page could include this information.

A point raised by a Law school faculty member was that if you do not have children’s books can you donate money. The answer was, of course, yes. Cash will be sent to Library Administrative Services and Diane Turner will look into whom the checks can be made out to.

The shipping department of the Library will be responsible for dropping off and picking up the boxes at the assigned spots for that week.

Any information received and passed on to Diane Turner should be cc’d to Andrew Gray as well.