The Executive Board of CSS met for the fourth meeting of the
2003-2005 Biennium at the Graham Public Library at 12:00. Present were
Chair Carol Laing McNeil, Vice Chair Loree Kelly, Director Deb Oldenburg,
Sec/Treas Jacky Miller, CHAPBOOK editor Loretta Talbert, NC Book Award
Representative Sally Baron and Membership Chair Beth Hutchison. Director
Heather McCutcheon has resigned from the board.
The minutes of the June 21 meeting were approved. A suggestion was made to send the minutes by e-mail. The secretary said she will try. The treasurer reported that there was $5900 in the fund balance.
Committee Reports:
- CHAPBOOK. Loretta announced that the deadline for the next issue will
be November 20. Cindy Robertson will write about the Storytelling Festival
at Rowan County, Pam McCarter will write about a program called
" Show & Tell: Venturing Teens", Tony Talent will write about "Imag In On" and Carol will do an article about the conference. Loretta wants the new logo so Jacky will attempt to send it on-line. - Membership. Carol will talk to Terry Wehrli about a ready-made membership form to insert into our brochure. Deb will send the membership brochure disc to Beth. Carol suggested that we send out information about the conference, by October 1, and she will create the flyer. Beth will ask for mailing labels for the section from NCLA office. Beth also wants the new logo and two rolls of stamps. Jacky will attempt to send the logo and the stamps.
- NCCBA. Sally
will send some of the books, acrylic cubes and a poster display with Carol
for the table at the conference. Sally reported that one of the authors
produced a CD narrating his book, so she will burn extra
copies for CSS to give away at the table and at the breakfast. - Bylaws. Carol reported that a change in the by-laws is brought to the Bylaws Chair of NCLA. She is waiting for LAMS to send their bylaws to use as an example.
- State Library. No report. Jim is in Africa.
Old Business?SELA/NCLA Fall Conference
- Logo & Banner. Jacky brought the
banner that will hang vertically. She will send the horizontal table banner
to Beth when it is finished. She will check the price of a similar banner
in vinyl. Beth moved and Loree
seconded that CSS pay Nichole Ealy $200 for her work in updating the logo. The motion passed. Jacky will request a check sent to her at East Regional Library. - Fund Raising. CSS will raffle a basket of NC items. Either send
it to Carol or bring your item to the conference. Loree will get the basket.
Beth will get three books (authors: Numeroff, Fleishman & Crutcher
if
possible) from authors at Novello. Deb will print generic raffle tickets. Ticket stubs will go into lidded boxes, one for each raffle item. Beth will get the boxes. The drawing will be at the all conference breakfast, or some other all conference venue. - CSS Table. Beth and Loretta volunteered to set it up on Tuesday and everyone else will check in as they get there. Claire will fit herself into the schedule as necessary. The schedule: On Wednesday, 9:00-11:00, Deb & Loretta; 11:00-1:00 Loree and Beth; 1:00-2:30 Claire. On Thursday, 9:00-11:00 Loree & Deb; 11:00-1:00 Carol and Loree; 1:00-3:00 Carol and Loree, 3:00-5:00 Beth. On Friday, 9:00-Noon Carol. Carol will take the money box at the end of each day.
- NCCBA. Sally will send a display with Carol.
- Schedule of events. The breakfast is Wednesday morning, the baby session and the author discussions are in the afternoon. Jacky will request honorarium checks for the authors and have them sent to Loree. Public Library Section declined to co-sponsor Patrick Jones.
- Selling
Books. Carol will ask Terri W. about the vendors who will sell books. Authors
are asked to move to the booth and do their book signing there. The breakfast
is in the morning so Patrick Jones will sign
around 9:00. - Other items. Carol will get a gift basket at Southern Season for Patrick Jones. Loree will find out his arrival time and Beth offered to pick him up, if it's not too late. Loree, Deb and Carol will prepare survey forms for each program.
New Business
Possible appointments for a new director were discussed, including asking at each of the programs at the conference.
Carol reported that NCLA dues are going up. The new NCLA Executive Secretary has been hired and she will work 30 hours a week.
The next meeting will be held at Graham Public Library on December 13 at
12:00. It will be a holiday meeting so bring a small gift and food. We will
coordinate the food by e-mail so that there will be a variety and not
too many desserts.
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 3:45 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Jacky Miller
Secretary/Treasurer