Committee Planning Report

NOTE: ** = Required Field

**Type of report being submitted: Committee Planning Report

**Date: 10/16/06

**Committee Name: Scholarship, Research and Writing

**Supervising Board Member: Michelle Millet

**Chair, Co-Chairs, Assistant Chairs: Maureen Barry (maureen.barry@wright.edu) and Deana Groves (deana.groves@wku.edu)

**Committee members:

Michael Yunkin, Kaijsa Calkins, Abigail Goben, Elizabeth Rodrigues, Tapley Trudell, Maureen Cropper, Fiona Bradley, Ted Chaffin, Margaret (Clare) Castleberry

**Committee Charge:

To provide support for librarians with an interest in the publication process.

Note: Since this is a relatively new committee, formed from the New Writers Support Ad Hoc Committee, the Board will be discussing and voting on the committee's responsibilities at ALA Annual 2007.

**2006 - 2007 Project Description / Goals:

The committee's goal is to provide an avenue for NMRT members to become more familiar with the publication process.

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

• Solicit submissions for articles to publish at least 8 pages of research-based (scholarly) content as a supplement in the Spring print issue of Footnotes
• Create a new layout template for the print Footnotes
• Create both the committee Web site and Handbook entry

Financial Report Section:

Your budget appropriation (see budget)	a. $1,986
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.$1,986
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?)

None.

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

None.

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

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

While no forms or databases will be required, we will post a Web site before the end of 2006. The committee does not have a Web site at present.

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

None

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

-Calls for proposals/submissions will be sent to the NMRT listserv

-Information about the new spring print Footnotes may be submitted to be published in the electronic editions of Footnotes in November and February

**Report submitted by: Maureen Barry

**Email address: maureen.barry@wright.edu