WAML General Business Meeting
Annual Conference 2015
Meeting Minutes
Sept. 25, 2015
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: ESRI Campus, Redlands CA
Head of Meeting: Chris Thiry
Minute taker: Chrissy Klenke (WAML Secretary)
Minutes
1. Executive Reports
President – Chris Thiry – Welcome
Exec Meeting Summary – Secretary, Chrissy Klenke
Treasurer’s Report – Lisa Lamont
- banking and savings account
- honoraria
- expenses – on target (end of the year $15,000 in checking)
- Business manager Sold only 4 –
- time to digitize these publications save for Sounding Board
Committee Reports (1 minute summary)
Tom Brittnacher – IB Editor’s Report
- Gone Digital – 3 issues so far
- Production is way easier and everyone is enjoying
- 12,000 visits 3,500 individual visitors – web crawlers seen by a much wider audience
- look into creating DOI’s for all the content
- next issue – Nov looking for content/contribute (Oct. 15th for articles / Nov 1st for int
- Members only – don’t’ have anything there yet, no idea what should be there or if we need anything. Let us know if there should be something there.
- Comments are supposed to be but most of them are spam.
Ken Rockwell- Publications Advisory Committee
- Been a quiet year
- approved the funds for the “Master index” and hired an indexer
- Laura Shelley is the indexer. she has incorporated the contents of the indexes for volumes 43 – 45 into the master index (includes volume 1 – 42)
- is the process of finishing # 47 as a compilation and it will be a supplement from a re-issue
- Now the links show the volume and issue number, but in actuality each link will go to the proper article.
- This index is freely available
Daniel Brendle-Moczuk – Web Committee Report
- Webpages are Responsive (most of them)
- Need to update the URL’s on the Toolbox – WAML website
Greg Armento – Subscription/Membership report
- 98 members
- paypal
- prefer to be contacted with work emails
- be submitted to the wordpress for members only section rights
- membership/community manager
Jon Jablonski – Continuing Education Committee
- Goal was to start doing webinars through MAGIRT. 2 done this past year.
- CUAC doesn’t exit anymore , using this webinar series to continue this dialog
- shoot for 4 webinars this year.
Julie Sweetkind-Singer (for Jane Ingalls) – Archivist Report
- Hired a San Jose Library student to organize the WAML Archives – Rebecca
- permanently housed in Stanford Archives and Special Collections. – There is a finding aid!
- Index was useful in the organization
- Rebecca loves WAML after working with the collection
- It is complete! (print collection)
- Electronic needs to be tackled
- Jane will continue as Archivist until we find someone else and she can train
- working on the last part – photographs and slides End of Oct will be complete and accessible and can link to on the WAML website and IB
Future Meetings – Kim Durante
- Stanford – Rumsey Center will be complete.
- asked for any suggestion for any topic
2. Liaison & Representatives Reports
MAGIRT – Kathy Rankin
- ALA annual SF Honors award to Katherine Rankin.
- See Report
NGAC – Julie Sweetkind-Singer
- Sept was this year meeting
- Tasks update
- one topic most interesting (discussion) where GIS is going.
- 1st time on a federal committee – a lot of politics shape what we can and can’t do
- Task – get the next administration to understand we this is – Geoportal
- Trying to do as much as we can to push forward agendas
- National address database (FEMA doesn’t have a database where everyone lives – they use Census Bureau)
- Elevation standards
- Next generation 911 call centers
- recommendations around spacial privacy issues @ a federal level. Phone is tracking everywhere you go – PRIVACY
- Spatial Revolution what is happening in the world
- Keith Masback – Great guy to come in for a Webinar??
- Computer processing satellites – impact
- December meeting – next meeting will be in April
- New Satellite Sentinel 2 – French
- sending data
- resolution is 10 meter (blow away using Landsat…)
- Keith Masback – Great guy to come in for a Webinar??
Geological Survey Mapping – No Report
- (Geological Surveys Agencies with the States, Cartographers meeting)
SLA – No Report
AACCCM
- Dorothy McGarry talked about the what it was
- No one – not going to be redone for RDA
ACMLA
- Andrew Nicholson
- Assoc Canadian Map Libraries and Archives
- 50 yrs old this year – to celebrate releasing a peer reviewed a bulletin, welcoming submissions
- not limited to Canada or their members anyone can submit
- listed subjects of interest
- he has the info contact him with more information
- # of members 90-100
- Bulletin is still print publications
CCISA – No Report
GSIS
- Next meeting end of Oct and beginning of Nov.
- GeoScience 101 – introduce Geoscience Librarians workshop
IFLA
- in the US 2016
3. Old Business
none
2. New Business
none
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