Committee Planning Report

 

 

Type of report being submitted: Committee Planning Report

 

Committee Year (i.e., Annual-Annual, 2004-05 or Midwinter-Midwinter, 2004):  Annual-Annual

 

Committee Name:  New Writers Support Ad Hoc Committee

 

Report Submitted By:  Amanda Etches-Johnson, Committee Chair

 

Date of Report Submission:  November 12, 2003

 

Email Address:  etchesa@mcmaster.ca

 

Supervising Board Member:  Sally Gibson

 

Chair, Co-Chairs, Assistant Chairs:  none

 

Committee members: 

Cohen, Sara

Conrad Weisman, Sarah

Dudley, Brandon

Etches-Johnson, Amanda

Fossum, Michelle

Galloway, Nicole

Hogan, Sean

Holliday, Deloice

 

 

 

Committee Charge:  To gather relevant resources and create documents helpful to librarians

looking to write and publish articles, books, grant narratives, or other

scholarly communications; manage NMRTWRITER discussion list and facilitate

online discussion.

 

Current Committee Year's Project Description / Goals: 

 

  1. To stimulate regular discussion on NMRTWRITER by posting a new topic bi-weekly.  The committee continues to brainstorm the topics for posting, and a list of these topics is maintained by this year's list moderator, committee volunteer Brandon Dudley.
  2. To gather resources into a “toolkit” for new writers and publish these resources on the committee's website.
  3. Publicize the committee website once it has been established. 

 

Specific Objectives (numbers, tangible end-products):  The establishment of the committee website is our number one priority, which should be complete before Annual 2004.

 

Financial Report Section:

Your budget appropriation (see budget)

a. N/A

Amount which you have spent so far this year

b. N/A

Your estimated additional expenses this year

c. N/A

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

d. N/A

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

e. N/A

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

                                                

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): 

 

Since our top priority is setting up our website, we are currently waiting to find out who our Web Committee liaison is.  Once contact has been made, a number of questions will need to be answered:

Ø      How much web space are we allowed?

Ø      Is there a design template we have to follow?

Ø      Can we upload pages ourselves (via FTP) or does the Web Committee liaison do this for us?

With respect to actual help required, I anticipate that we will be able to put together the basic pages ourselves (HTML coding, etc.)  and depending on whether or not we have FTP privileges, we might require assistance in uploading individual pages.

 

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

 

c. Publicity planned for the committee (posting to other discussion lists, official press release for webpage, etc.):   As mentioned previously, once the committee's website has been established, we intend to publicize it on other discussion lists and with a press release, if deemed appropriate.