LiSA Minutes
January 27, 2005
SML Rm. 410

Members present: : Diana Quinones, Kelly Shand, Kathleen Burns, Stephen Cohen, Kevin Glick, Ruth Carruth, Mary Bradway, Cesar Zapata, and Aubrey Novack.

Members Absent:  Bernadette Cioffi, Patrick Butler, Amanda Patrick, and Lolly Lee.

Meeting convened at 2:00 p.m.

NOOKS AND CRANNIES TOURS
Kathleen will send out a list via e-mail of 25 suggestions that she received. We will have 10 tours. Lolly has already volunteered the Map Collection for 1 of them so we will be choosing the other 9. There will be some back-up tours suggested in case some do not work out. There was a brief discussion about having a tour of the Lewis Walpole library as one of the 9. The opinion was positive, but the distance and how to get there was a concern.

NEW STAFF RECEPTION:
Kevin reported on the dates that he has come up with for the Spring New Staff Reception. So far he has 3 dates in April and 2 in May. He has reserved the Lecture Hall in SML for Tuesday April 26, 2005 from 2-4 in hopes that the University Librarian and all the AUL’s will be able to attend on that day. Because it was suggested to him that Ann Okerson will be gone on that day he thought that we could try for May 9, 2005 in SSS hall from 2-4.

Ruth reported that there is a budget of $3,000 for the spring reception.

Kevin came up the the suggestion that we start planning dates for the Fall NSR now. He has a few dates for fall in which all the AUL’s are here. One is 9/30/05 and the other 10/14/05. Stephen Cohen thought that we would be able to book the lecture hall for either of those dates this far in advance.

Kevin was going to check with Antonia if they could block out the date.

TSUNAMI RELIEF:
The giving is going slowly. We have at this time collected about $600 for the relief effort. Stephen was going to send out an e-mail detailing what that money has done for the efforts. We hope that will encourage others to give.

The suggestion was made that members of LiSA could talk about the relief effort in departmental and staff meetings to boost support.

Kelly Shand said she will say something at the Divinity Staff meeting in February.

Kevin Glick wanted to know how many charity events LiSA took on per year. We do the Food Drive and the raffle for Columbus House as a rule. We are also asked to help with others, such as the Book Drive for New Haven Schools, and the relief effort for Southeast Asia by the administration.

WEIGHT WATCHERS:
Mary Bradway reported that there are 17 people in this session. It will run for 12 weeks. She is going to try to advertise in the Yale Daily News, the Yale Bulletin and Calendar and Working at Yale to reach a larger segment as it is hard to come up with the 15 people every time. Also she is going to start advertising earlier. Advertising on the web site was suggested by Cesar Zapata.

BLOOD DRIVE:
Ruth Carruth announced the date for the next blood drive. She still needed confirmation of it, but she said it would be 2/17/05. It will be in the middle of the day at the McDougall Center at HGS. We will set up posters and send out e-mails.

It was asked if they needed volunteers to help man the area. They thought that there would be enough people.

Kathleen Burns was going to add a Blood Drive page to the LiSA website.

NEW HAVEN VOUCHER PROGRAM:
Kevin Glick reported on what he had found out about the voucher program. It is run from the Law School and Dwight Hall. It is a student organization.

There were 3 options for us to get involved with the program. The first was to help man the table when the vouchers are sold once a month, the second was to establish our own table in the Library and LiSA would organize it, and the third was to sell them like tickets in the Library.

We decided that to start with we would help man the table in the Law School and send out notices on Yulib for advertisements. Aubrey Novack suggested that we would also be able to take up the slack during the slow times, if this is a successful joint effort.
Kevin will remain the contact person until further notice.

NEXT MEETING
TBA.