Committee Planning Report

NOTE: ** = Required Field

**Type of report being submitted: Committee Planning Report

**Date: 10/21/2003

**Committee Name: Membership Meeting and Program Committee

**Supervising Board Member: Marilyn Ochoa

**Chair, Co-Chairs, Assistant Chairs: Ihsia Hu

**Committee members:

Traci Avet

Amanda Bakken

Maria Nathalie Hristov

Penny Scott

**Committee Charge: The NMRT Membership Meeting and Program Committee plans a program during the ALA Annual Conference and holds monthly NMRT-L listserv discussions.

**2003 - 2004 Project Description / Goals:

This year we are holding monthly discussions from Sept. to Dec. 2003 and Feb. to May 2004 for a total of 8 discussions. The topics includes “I wish I had know” (Sept.), intellectual freedom and national security (Oct.), library budget (Nov.), When did you know you want to be a librarian (Dec.), performance evaluation (Feb.), diversity (Mar.), interview (Apr.), and salary negotiation (May). This year, we hope to be able to archive our discussions online.

For the program during Annual Conference, we'd like to invite one or two speaker to talk about professional development, such as learning new skills, achieving tenure, getting published, and earning another degree … etc.

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

Deciding on discussion topics—done.

Holding monthly discussions—on going.

Saving discussions—on going.

Archiving discussions online—in plan.

Selecting Annual program topic—done.

Finding speakers.

Design the program.

Publicize the program.

Financial Report Section:

Your budget appropriation (see budget)	a. 26
Amount which you have spent so far this year	b. 0
Your estimated additional expenses this year	c. 0
Total of amount spent and additional "estimated" expenses for this year (b+c)	d. 0
Difference between budgeted amount and total expenses from above (a-d)	e. 26

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

None planned or anticipated.

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

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

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):

Publicize the Annual program as part of NMRT's programs.

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

Members from the Committee should be sufficient.

c. Publicity planned for the committee (posting to other discussion lists, official press release for webpage, etc.): Post on NRMT-L and also on NMRT and ALA website and program guides.

**Report submitted by: Ihsia Hu

**Email address: hui@mail.nlm.nih.gov

Committee Planning Report

Amount which you have spent so far this year

Your estimated additional expenses this year