SCOPA Meeting Minutes
January 7, 2002

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Present: Richard Boursy, Pamela Mann, Todd Fell, Cecile Mandour, Mary Caldera, Stephen Jones, Eric Friede, Jae Williams (chair) (recording), Diane Turner

Minutes
Jae explained the procedure for taking minutes. Each member will take minutes on a rotating basis, alphabetically by last name. Once the meeting is over, this person will write up the minutes and distribute them to all the members for approval. Once approved, they will be sent to the web master for posting.

SCOPA Positions
Jae explained the different ways the members can contribute to SCOPA and the following people volunteered for the following positions:

Grants Subcommittee
Mary Caldera
Eric Friede
(continuing - Pamela Mann, Richard Boursy)
Richard is the new chair

Mentoring Subcommittee
Cecile Mandour
(continuing - Rochelle Smith)

Publications Page
Stephen Jones

Web Site
Todd Fell

Orientation for New Librarians
Mary Caldera

Ken Crilly is the chair of a task force investigating the state of travel reimbursement in the YUL. He would like SCOPA to be represented on this committee. Eric Friede volunteered to serve.

Forums
There will be two forums this week. As a general rule, SCOPA tries to avoid scheduling two activities in the same week, but this was unavoidable. The first is an Orbis2 update and the second is Hugh Cobbe from the British Library speaking on the acquisition of music materials.

Two other forums are actively under development: another installment of the Librarians without Borders series, and a reschedule of Kris Hammond. Other forums that will happen, but have yet to be scheduled, are an address by Barbara Shailor and an update about the library from Alice Prochaska. SCOPA members made suggestions about ideas that merit development into a forum. Stephen will pursue an idea to hear from librarians who work in other academic libraries in the area such as at Quinnipiac College or Southern
Connecticut State University. Todd will pursue the idea to hear from James Welbourne, the new director of the New Haven Free Public Library. Jae will pursue asking Richard Brodhead to speak about curriculum changes at Yale.

SCOPA discussed the idea that when a topic has multiple viewpoints, it should strive to present all sides, not only to give a fair picture, but to promote lively discussion. Jae encouraged all SCOPA members to keep their eyes open for ideas for future forums.

As the next regular meeting will fall on a holiday, it was rescheduled for Thursday, January 24 at 9am. Location TBA.

(submitted by Jae Williams)