SCOPA Meeting Minutes

SCOPA Meeting Minutes

SCOPA Minutes: 11/19/98 Meeting

SCOPA meeting
November 19, 1998
Minutes

In attendance: Suzanne Eggleston, James Shetler, Diane Turner, Christine Weideman (recording)
Absent: William Fray, Gillian Goldsmith, Xin Li

December forums:

Jim Shetler will update the calendar to reflect the December forums. Chris Weideman will send out a message next week to YULIB about the December forums.

1999 forums:

E J Josey will address a SCOPA forum on February 25, 10:00am, on minority librarians in academic libraries. Jim Shetler will handle arrangements. At 9:30am that same day, there will be a small reception in the Memorabilia Room for University of Pittsburgh Library School alums to meet with Josey.

Loise Blalock, of the Connecticut Center for the Book, will address a SCOPA forum in February on the work of the Center. Tentative date is February 10th; Suzanne Eggleston will contact Bridget Burke to arrange for the forum.

Possible 1999 forums:

Xin Li will contact Morris Cohen, emeritus professor of law and retired law librarian, and invite him to give his lecture, "Printing the Law," at a SCOPA forum. If Cohen is agreeable, Xin will try to arrange the forum for the third-fourth weeks of January, 1999.

John Ryden, Yale University Press, on trends he has observed in the publishing industry.

Anthony Ricci, on the research and publication of his book on the Boston Italian community.

Social Sciences Library director.

Medical Library director.

AUL for technical services.

Renovations around the library system.

The Library Shelving Facility.

The library as a learning organization.

SCOPA Grants:

The grants subcommittee met and reviewed the six applications. Letters will go out to the applicants on December 15. Prior to that, drafts of the six letters will be circulated for review by SCOPA members. Gillian Goldsmith will prepare further analysis of past grant cycles for LMC.

Last meeting of the year:

Diane Turner will arrange a meeting between December 16 - December 23 at which newly appointed SCOPA members will be welcomed and a new chair appointed.