Present: Michelle Apps, Sheri Brown, Nancy Cook, Mary Faulkner, Elizabeth Killingsworth, Carol Moon, Beatrice Nichols, Andrew Pearson Nora Quinlan, Betsy Simpson and guests Brent Short, Gary Parsons, and Pamela Doffek.

Absent: Jenny Saxton.

Introductions: Board Chair Nora Quinlan called the meeting to order at 4:03pm. She opened the meeting with introductions.

Minutes: Secretary Beatrice Nichols presented two sets of minutes.

Beatrice read the minutes of November 3, 2006. Six items from the minutes were identified for correction. Andrew moved that the minutes be approved subject to the corrections noted, Michelle seconded the motion and the minutes were unanimously accepted.

Minutes of business conducted online since the November 2006 meeting were read by Beatrice Nichols. Mary moved that the minutes be accepted subject to seven corrections. Carol seconded the motion and the minutes were unanimously accepted.

ACTION ITEM: Beatrice Nichols will make the noted corrections to the minutes and submit them to the Board online.

ACTION ITEM: Beatrice Nichols will write minutes for the spring Board meeting and submit them to the Board online.

Treasurer’s Report: Treasurer Mary Faulkner detailed FACRL’s financial standing through the most recent transaction, dated April 9, 2007. The account balance as of April 9 is $5,156.20.

FLA 2007: President-Elect Betsy Simpson lead a discussion of FACRL’s sponsorship and promotion of five academic programs at FLA 2007. Andrew suggested that the Board send a message of thanks to Ruth O’Donnel for the increased academic programming for 2007.

ACTION ITEM: Thank-you note for Ruth O’Donnell.

FACRL Fall Program: Betsy announced that the fall program would be held at Edison College on Friday, October 26, 2007. Among potential speakers discussed were Diana Sachs, TBLC, Brian Matthews, Georgia Tech and Karen Schnieder, FSU. Themes and concepts related to innovation in outreach were discussed. A working title, New Frontiers: Reinventing Outreach, was suggested.

Additionally, a panel discussion of next-gen librarians was proposed. The panelists would be drawn from a pool of scholarship applicants, with five scholarships awarded. Three scholarship winners would be asked to sit on the panel and two additional applicants would serve as virtual interns to the Board. Applicants will be asked to apply by writing an essay based on the ACRL top ten assumptions. Nora agreed to work on scholarship details based on a $500 budget.

ACTION ITEM: Mary will email Nora with details outlining costs of the meeting for the attendees.

ACTION ITEM: Nora will draft criteria for the applicants’ proposals (to be sent out to the library schools when with what deadline & to be selected how?)

Membership Planning: Past President Andrew announced that Nancy is officially assuming office as the Newsletter Editor as of the present meeting. Andrew presented Elizabeth Killingsworth as candidate for the open position of Vice President/President Elect. No further nominations were received from the floor. The current member roster was discussed briefly. Positions vacated by Andrew, and Jenny and the existing open general board member position total three positions to fill. These spots could be filled with Barabara Stites, Jonathan Miller, Brent Short, Linda Sobey, Barbara Lewis, and Nancy Cunningham.

Volunteers were solicited to staff the membership information table for time slots on Wednesday and Thursday.

ACTION ITEM: Andrew will solicit a vita and letter of interest from the candidates and submit them to the Board online.

Newsletter: Nancy noted that the next newsletter deadline will be September 1, 2007, and she will send a reminder for submissions in August.

Legislative Update: Beatrice reported on legislative issues of concern. It was noted that ACRL is recruiting librarians to act as legislative advocates and that there is an opportunity for librarians to make their presence known on Capitol Hill at ALA in June.

New Business: Nora lead the Board in a discussion of FACRL’s new relationship with FLA within the new FLA structure. The FLA Academic Section, under the new structure, has become the FLA Academic Group. Nora, Elizabeth and Betsy noted that they planned to attend the group leader’s orientation on Friday, April 13.

The Chapter’s relationship with ACRL was discussed in relationship to the incorporation and tax status of the group.

Review of the board’s officer manuals was deferred to be completed online before the next meeting.

Status of archives of the group was discussed. A desire was expressed to have a central repository for the FACRL archives, perhaps alongside those of FLA.

ACTION ITEM: Complete review of officer’s manuals online before the fall meeting.

ACTION ITEM: Inquire as to the possibility of storing FACRL archives with those of FLA.

ACTION ITEM: Solicit previous Board members for records to be submitted for the archive.

Announcements: Betsy presented Nora with a plaque commemorating her service as President.

Special thanks were extended to Andrew Pearson, Past President, and Jenny Saxton, past Newsletter Editor for their years of dedicated service to the Board and Chapter.