Public Relations & Marketing Meeting Minutes: July
Public Relations & Marketing Committee
Meeting Minutes – July 28, 2008
Members Present: Val Davis, Chelsea Dinsmore, `Nita Ferree, Barbara Hood, Natalie
Lane; Carol McAuliffe, Angela Mott; John Nemmers; Richard Saltzburg, and Jay Wiese
Introductions
This meeting was the first for our incoming members and the last for out outgoing members. Introductions were made and the new members were welcomed.
Incoming members: Natalie Lane, Carol McAuliffe, Richard Saltzberg, Jay Wiese
Outgoing members: Steve Carrico, Chelsea Dinsmore, Angela Mott, John Nemmers
Announcements:
Angela is heading up the committee for Smathers’ Library Homecoming float. Two themes have been selected and voters will make the final choice. “Swamp or Bust” will be a green SUV decorated to look like an alligator; and “Road to the Swamp” would be a country scene and most likely be built on a flatbed truck or trailer. Judy will be arranging the funding. The HSCL and Law Library are welcome to join in. Anyone interested in helping out in anyway should get in touch with Angela.
Faculty Author Series:
Chelsea and John have agreed to organize the Faculty Author Series and reported that none of the authors were available during the summer. This year the sessions will be planned for weekday afternoons. The three authors have signified their willingness to participate, but no dates have been set (although it would be ideal :
Dr. Deborah Walker King, Associate Professor African-American Literature, American Literature, Women’s Studies & Feminist Theory and author of African Americans and the Culture of Pain.
Dr. Stephanie Evans, Assistant Professor in African American Studies and Women’s Studies, and author of Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History.
Dr. David Colburn, Professor of History and Vice Provost and Senior Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs is interested in presenting in early November. His book: From Yellow Dog Democrats to Red State
Republicans: Florida and Its Politics since 1940.
The three authors have signified their willingness to participate, but no dates have been set (although it would be ideal if Dr. King could present in February during Black History month and if Dr.Colburn could present in October or November. He expressed interest in a political panel discussion).
The Library Tech Expo for new faculty is set for Wednesday, August 27th 10am-2pm at Emerson Hall.
Chelsea announced that the first session of this year’s Let’s Talk About It! Jewish Literature: Identity and Imagination (http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/letstalk/) will be Sunday, August 31 at 3:30 p.m. See additional schedule details below. All programs will be held from 3:30-4:30 p.m. in room 1A in Smathers Library (East). Posters will go up next week.
John said that Special Collections will have politically-themed exhibitions in the fall, which would nicely compliment Dr. Colburn’s session.
GIS Day will be held November 19th this year. Ads will be placed in the Alligator. It was discovered that the Committee had not actually decided what it was going to award. Val said she’d check her notes. Whether to make this a regular line item or not was discussed (like the annual Art Bash).
Editors for the PRAM LibGuides page.
Jay asked to be included as an editor for LibGuides; editors now include: Barbara, Val and ‘Nita. Also, the Library 2.0 group is experimenting with a central blog site for managing meeting minutes from UF Library committees. Currently, Val and `Nita (with Laurie Taylor as lead blog manager) have been given editor-rights. (It turned out to be the blogs page at: blogs.uflib.ufl.edu/minutes) We might try publishing the PRAM minutes at that site, to see how that works. Val will continue to post minutes on our old site until we have a chance to more carefully explore using blogs for minutes.
Discretionary Fund Requests
The PRAM budget has not been approved at this time, but Barbara said that it should be the same for this year.
1.) Laura Jordan requested approximately $100 to cover sodas and cookies for the Library Tech Expo.
The committee unanimously approved the request.
2.) Amy Buhler requested $150 for refreshments and decorations for the Elegance of Science reception.
The committee unanimously approved the request. Barbara Hood will send Amy contact information for a donation request.
Rotating Open House
There is a line item in the budget for a once-a-year, $200 rotating library open house event. PRAM would award the money for refreshments, but the library would do the rest. Barbara does the PR and posters. `Nita volunteered to take the lead for drafting guidelines for this award to be discussed via email.
Alternative Approach
Richard wondered if it might not be fun for PRAM to award food items so that awardees would make refreshments-from-scratch.
Items Tabled for Future Discussion
· Handouts
· PRaM Annual Report – We need to do another one
· “Programming that inspires students to have a sense of ownership of the Libraries” discussion
· Flash Drives
