The end of year business meeting/holiday party at MacArthur Park Restaurant on December 8th had a sizeable turnout, with what your editor estimates as forty to fifty attendees. Absolutely Adina (Adina Magill) displayed jewelry during the networking portion of the evening, the incoming board members were announced and Leslie Fisher announced a number of awards. The new board members will be listed in a separate post.
Libby Trudell received the Mark H. Baer Award and Sonia Dorfman received the Lucy Steelman Award. Other award recipients included Pam Gore (President's Award), Jean Bedord (Published Member Award), George Plosker on behalf of IEEE (Vendor Partner Award) and Gloria Elia (a new category, Outstanding Service Award). Gloria was awarded memberships to both the national association and to the San Andreas Chapter on behalf of her tireless work managing registration and payment for the Chapter's programs throughout the year.
Roy Tennant gave a brief presentation "Three Things You Must Know About What Libraries Are Doing" which discussed changes in the profession and how librarians need to react to them by making as much information available to users as possible, pushing support out to their users, pulling data from external sources (and mashing it up) to enrich services. There was a brief Q&A period with questions about open source versus proprietary information sources and how to allow access to a wider audience while still maintaining some restrictions over the visibility of private holdings.
Thanks to everyone who organized the event, to board members past and present and to the Chapter members for making our last meeting of 2009 a success!
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