Committee Planning Report

NOTE: ** = Required Field

 

 

**Type of report being submitted:  Committee Planning Report

 

**Date: 09/06/02

 

 

**Committee Name:  President's Program

 

 

**Supervising Board Member:  Erik Drake/Beth Kraemer

 

 

**Chair, Co-Chairs, Assistant Chairs:  Catherine Collins, Chair (catherine_collins@tamu-commerce.edu)

 

 

**Committee members: 

 

·        Jeannette Ho (jaho@tamu.edu)

·        Ron Peterson (ronpeterson39401@yahoo.com)

·        Wanda C. Rivero (wrivero@nypl.org)

 

 

**Committee Charge:  

 

The NMRT President's Program Committee plans, coordinates, and delivers a program for the ALA Annual Meeting.

 

 

**2002 - 2003 Project Description / Goals: 

 

This year's NMRT President's Program topic has been tentatively titled "Alternative Careers for Librarians." It will feature approximately four panelists, each of whom holds an MLS, but works in an unusual/nontraditional job or for an organization not generally thought of as one that employs librarians.

 

 

**Specific Objectives (numbers, tangible end-products): 

1.      Contact all committee members and exchange introductions [DONE].

2.      Select a program topic and an alternate topic [DONE].

3.      Send out invitations to potential panelists and secure approximately four panelists [IN PROGRESS – 2 CONFIRMATIONS & TWO “MAYBES” TO DATE].

4.      Confirm a date and a time for the midwinter committee meeting and the annual conference program [IN PROGRESS].

5.      Create a preliminary list of program tasks with a committee member assigned to each task [IN PROGRESS].

6.      Design and maintain the committee website [IN PROGRESS].

7.      Prepare an agenda, handouts, a bibliography, and evaluation forms.

8.      Publicize the program on online discussion lists and in NMRT publications, such as Footnotes and Cognotes.

9.      Oversee all aspects of the program at the Annual Conference.

 

 

Financial Report Section:

Your budget appropriation (see budget)

a. 200.00

Amount which you have spent so far this year

b. 0.00

Your estimated additional expenses this year

c. 200.00

Total of amount spent and additional "estimated" expenses for this year (b+c)

d.200.00

Difference between budgeted amount and total expenses from above (a-d)

e. 0.00

 

f. Vendor support planned or anticipated for the year (either money or in-kind gifts), list here: 

 

None planned or anticipated, although pens and papers for attendees would be useful for note-taking.

 

 

g. Vendor support requested: (From the above list, what, if any, has been requested from the Exhibitor Contact and Relations Committee?) 

 

Nothing.

 

 

h. Vendor support received: (From the above list, what if any, has been received?) 

 

Nothing.

 

 

Specific Needs/Support (non-financial): (For the categories below, please include approximate date service needed)

a. Web Support (help with webpage creation, web form creation, web database, web database, scripting, etc): 

 

Last year, the committee designed and maintained a program web site (http://www7.tamu-commerce.edu/libref/nmrt/2002index.htm).  We don't need any assistance with designing or maintaining this year's site; however, if the Web Committee has any guidelines or requirements for committee pages, we would like to have those.

 

 

b. On-site conference volunteers: (include estimated numbers needed and brief job description) 

 

We anticipate needing four volunteers (the committee membership) to assist with setting up the room for the program, moderating the panel discussion, assisting the speakers as needed, distributing handouts, conducting the follow-up survey at the end of the program, and cleaning up the room afterward.

 

 

c. Publicity planned for the committee (posting to other discussion lists, official press release for webpage, etc.): 

 

The committee will publicize the program on online discussion lists and in NMRT publications, such as Footnotes and Cognotes.

 

 

**Report submitted by:  Catherine Collins

 

 

**Email address:  catherine_collins@tamu-commerce.edu