Committee Planning Report

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**Type of report being submitted: Committee Planning Report

**Date: September 9, 2004

**Committee Name: Self Study and Resource Allocation Committee (SSRA)

**Supervising Board Member: Nadine Flores

**Chair, Co-Chairs, Assistant Chairs: Suzanne Vesely Co-Chair, Gaye Hinchliff Co-Chair

**Committee members: Karen Woodworth-Roman, Nancy Fawley, Tapley Trudell

**Committee Charge: This committee is responsible for planning events and listing possibilities for the Vice President/President Elect to implement in the upcoming year of his/her presidency.

**2004 - 2005 Project Description / Goals:

The focus of this year's Vice President/President Elect is on NMRT Outreach: find ways to include those members who are not active in NMRT and develop a project such as a free online workshop, (free to our members, $0 budget). We will also consider a practical delivery system for the online workshop - it can be a Yahoo Chat or a discussion on NMRT-L or something similar to Aaron Dobb's message board.

Our goal for the year is to plan activities that will reach out to the NMRT members who aren't able to attend conferences and to attract members' involvement. We will also create an online bibliography for the one or two online workshops that we decide to do.

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

Ask for volunteers (NMRT Alumni or other experts) to host one or two online workshops (asynchronous or real time) addressing issues of interest to NMRT members.

Determine which ideas for the online workshop we want to pursue. Ideas so far include:

a) Strategies for distance services in the light of the ACRL guidelines, which include public libraries, since one strategy is to find out what the local public libraries offer a distance student

b) Litigation Literacy for Libraries

c) Tegrity presentation on copyright - could include Copyright and Intellectual Property issues, Privacy issues, and Plagiarism, or it could be narrower, limited to just one of those topics.

d) Global leadership skills seminar

e) Time management and people skills

f) Improving interview strategies and attracting better interviewees

Financial Report Section:

Your budget appropriation (see budget) a. 0

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. 0

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

None

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):

Web support will be contacted if needed in this stage of planning

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.):

Emails announcing event(s) to NMRT-L, NEW-LIB

NMRT Footnotes article

**Report submitted by: Gaye Hinchliff & Suzanne Vesely

**Email address: ghinchli@kcls.org & svesely@fhsu.edu