Present: Mark Emmons, Dennis Davies-Wilson, Kathleen Knoth, Joan Shedivy
Guest: Julie Miller (WNMU)
Absent: Donna Cromer, John McCance

The meeting was called to order at 3:08 pm by President Mark Emmons. 

1. Approval of Minutes - April 4, 2003
Kathleen Knoth moved to approve the minutes from April 4, 2003. Dennis Davies-Wilson seconded. Minutes approved.

2. Membership Report ? Susan Beck
Prior to this meeting, Susan Beck resigned her position as Secretary/Treasurer.  Mark Emmons will contact her and ask that she send the list of members to all NMARL board members.

3. ACRL Chapters Council Report ? Follow up action items.

• @ Your Library campaign (Mark Emmons) 

ACRL will distribute the information packet directly to all ACRL members; therefore, NMARL will not be responsible for distribution .
• Certification in library management (Mark Emmons) 

Mark Emmons will send the Board’s comments to ACRL by the end of April.

5. Board Positions ?Vacancies & Elections
We need to fill the open positions of 4-year college representative and library staff representative.  We need to get ballots in place for our next election with the next month. Please send recommendations to Mark.
Cassandra Osterloh @UNM has agreed to be nominated for Secretary/Treasurer.

6. CHECS
CHECS: Mark Emmons was unable to attend the last meeting, so he will get minutes. He attached their agenda to an email message sent to all board members on 4/23/03.

7. Affiliation with NMCAL
NMCAL was the brainchild of CHE to serve as a liaison between academic libraries and legislative issues. NMCAL is presently working on a strategic plan. NMARL would like to explore the possibility of developing a partnership with NMCAL. Dennis Davies-Wilson will compose a query outlining the potential benefits of a partnership and send it to the members of NMCAL. Dennis will also to check with NMCAL to see if Mark Emmons can be put on listserv or at least have the minutes supplied him as he is the NMARL representative to NMCAL.

Dennis Davies-Wilson reported on the NMCAL meeting held on April 24, 2003.  NMCAL approved a motion to look into the possibility of a partnership with NMARL.  Some NMCAL members preferred the terms “collaboration” or “cooperation” rather than partnership.
Julie Miller (WNMU) from the NMCAL board joined the meeting at this point.   There was agreement among the group that both NMCAL and NMARL find the following issues important: Continuing Education, Information Literacy, Programming, and CHECS/Information Technology.
Dennis Davies-Wilson will schedule a meeting with NMCAL and NMARL board members to discuss some type of alliance.  This meeting will be at the end of May or beginning of June, possibly in Socorro.

8.  NMARL Listserv
Donna Cromer will contact Susan Magee to take over the NMARL Listserv.
 This will be done soon.

9. NMARL Agenda for the Year Ahead
NMARL will complete the agenda for the upcoming year at our annual business meeting during NMLA. The agenda will be based on brainstorming from this year’s two April meetings.

Some ideas from our last meeting:

• Investigate ways to partner with other organizations.
• Offer more workshops and training sessions.
• Survey librarians and professional staff for needs/wants (Donna Cromer has access to survey software which we could use).
• Solicit members.
• Hold social event for academic librarians at NMLA.
• Work to get commitment from Library Directors to encourage and support staff to attend workshops/training sessions.
• Set up tours of a variety of libraries.
• Set up a meeting with NMCAL and NMARL.
• Share and communicate programs and workshops between SLA and NMARL members.

• Survey librarians and professional staff for needs/wants (Donna Cromer has access to survey software which we could use).
• Set up tours of a variety of libraries.

11. Other Business

• Mark Emmons reported on the NMARL pre-conference, “Quality Assurance in Information Literacy Programs”.  It was the best attended of all the pre-conferences with 19 participants.  It was presented by Kate Manuel (NMSU), Carroll Botts (UNM) and Mark Emmons (UNM).
• Mark Emmons also suggested that NMARL consider a 2-slot (entire morning or afternoon) session rather than a pre-conference for next year’s NMLA conference.

The next meeting will be with the board members of NMCAL.
Next year’s meeting at the NMLA conference may be scheduled as a lunch meeting. 

The meeting adjourned at 4:20 pm