GLBT-RT

Date and Times

Start: 01/17/2010 – 6:00pm
End: 01/17/2010 – 8:00pm (ish)

Location

Community Church of Boston
565 Boylston St. (above the Globe Restaurant)
Boston, MA 02116
617 266-6710
Community Church of Boston

Accessibility

Located in Copley Square, the Church is easily accessible by public transportation (www.mbta.com). Take the Green Line subway to the Copley stop; the church is half a block away. There are also many bus routes both from area hotels and from the Boston Convention & Exhibit Center. There is extremely limited parking in the area, driving is not recommended.

Link to Google map of Community Church of Boston

There are two “step-up” bathrooms in the facility (not wheelchair accessible).

Facility

The Community Church of Boston is a community united for the study and practice of universal religion, seeking to apply ethical ideals to individual life and democratic and cooperative principles to all forms of social and economic life. The Church provides support for justice in the form of sharing building space with progressive and peace focused organizations, including BAGLY (Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth), BYOP (Boston Area Youth Organizing Project), and The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC).

Book Drive for Community Church of Boston

The Community Church of Boston has a very small resource library that is in desperate need of useful and current titles for LGBT youth. Please bring a book with you to donate; it will be very much appreciated by the Church, and a fine way to say thank you for letting us use their space.

Catering

TBD

Contact for GLBTRT Social

Michael P. Dello Iacono with any questions
Mpd13@hms.harvard.edu

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Round Table

American Library Association

Annual Meeting, 2009
Steering Committee II

Palmer House
Indiana Room
July 14, 2009
8:00Am – 12:00pm
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Call to Order: David Vess

Introductions: David Vess

Approval of Agenda

Reports from Coordinators, Councilors, and Liaisons

• American Assoc. of School Librarians: Frank Cervone
• ALA Councilor: John Sandstrom
• ALA Executive Board: Larry Romans
• Assn. for Library Service to Children: Kathleen T. Horning
• ASCLA Accessibility Assembly: Jerry Reynolds
• Budget and Review Council: Norman Eriksen
• COPE: Diedre Conkling, John DeSantis
• Diversity Council: Anne Moore and Barbara J. Pickell
• Education Assembly: vacant
• Freedom to Read Foundation: vacant
• Intellectual Freedom Round Table: Martin Garnar
• Legislation Assembly: Jerry Reynolds
• Literacy Assembly: William Holden
• Membership Promotion Task Force: Matthew Ciszek
• New Members Round Table: Amy Elliott
• OLOS Advisory Committee: Anne Moore
• Planning and Budget Assembly: Dale McNeill
• Public Library Association: Barbara Pickell
• Research and Statistics Assembly: vacant
• Social Responsibilities Round Table: vacant
• Young Adult Library Services Association: Franklin L. Escobedo

1. Old Business

• Continued discussion of SC I topics

2. New Business

a. Talk with Satia Orange (11:00 Am)

b. Liaisons

• Role of
• Add/Subtract any

c. Fortieth Anniversary Celebration

• Programming Ideas
• Gala Celebration

d. Goal for the Next Two Years

• Tool-kits

*Do we want to assign someone other than Co-Chairs to oversee these?
*Would this be an ad hoc committee type of job?

e. Dispensing of the Membership Meetings and holding votes on issues, revisions, etc. during the ALA election process in the Spring.

3. Adjournment: David Vess

Due to a scheduling conflict, Sidetrack (3349 North Halsted) will be hosting the GLBTRT Social from 7:00 - 9:00 PM on Saturday, July 11. THIS IS ONLY A TIME CHANGE, NOT A DATE CHANGE.

(This is different from the previously posted time of 6:00 - 7:30 PM.)

The Center on Halsted (3656 North Halsted) will still be offering tours of their facility beginning at 8:00 PM Saturday, July 11. Ask at the first floor reception desk for Todd or Rob, your tour guides.

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Round Table

American Library Association

Annual Meeting, 2009
Steering Committee I

Palmer House
Room Clark 07
July 11, 2009
8:00 – 10:00 a.m.
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1. Call to order: David Vess

2. Introductions: David Vess

3. Approval of Agenda

4. Address from RT Councilor (20 min.): John Sandstrom

5. Address from PFLAG (15 min.): Peter Ji

6. Approval of Minutes

7. Reports of Officers

• Co-Chair: David Vess
• Treasurer: Dale McNeill
• Secretary: Tracy Nectoux

8. Reports from Committee Chairs

• Book Award Committee: James Simonis
• Book Awards Celebration Committee: John Furlong
• External Relations Committee: Peter Hepburn
• Fundraising Committee: David C. McCormick
• Membership Committee: Matthew Ciszek
• Newsletter Committee: John Bradford
• Nominating Committee: Lisa Johnston
• Program Planning Committee: Barbara Pickell
• Website Committee: Kristen Dietiker

9. Unfinished Business

10. New Business

• Don Weise, Alyson Books Partnership
• Amazon Issue and Other Intellectual Freedom Issues
• Continued use of the Membership survey
• Absorbing the cost of shipping extra Rainbow Project and BAC books to conferences
• Reimbursing Matt Ciszek and Jules Tate for March ACRL Conference Social Event
• Committee Volunteer Form (see appendix)
• Current Bylaws Revisions Document (see appendix)
• Possible Bylaws Amendments:

Below are a list of possible bylaw amendments that have been discussed by one or more SC members. During the membership meeting, motions can be made to amend the current bylaws revision document (see appendix) in two ways. 1. If a motion involves text not already up for an amendment in the bylaws revision document, the vote must be a 3/4 majority. 2. If a motion does involve text already up for amendment in the bylaws revision document, then it only needs a majority vote (as it's an amendment of an amendment). The below are only ideas. A motion can be made on each of them to "refer to committee" (i.e. the bylaws committee) for review and be up for consideration next year.

A. Rainbow Project (see appendix of proposed Rainbow Project bylaws text)

• All costs to be shared equally by both GLBTRT and SRRT
• Official Name
• Method of appointing Committee Chairs
• Method of appointing Committee Members
• Celebration schedule not to conflict with Book Awards Brunch/Dinner, SC, Membership Meetings
• Adoption of final language to take to membership meeting

B. Propose a Chair and Chair-Elect model for all committees; term length; gender equity; Immediate Past Chair

C. Propose amendment to allow SC to add, combine, dissolve committees with a 2/3 vote of SC

D. Propose revised language for membership volunteering/recruitment to mention a web form. (note a version of this is already for voting.)

• Waiting lists issue - for procedures manual

E. Propose dissolution of Nominating Committee

F. Propose amendments to revised bylaws for:

• Membership/External Relations
• Membership/Nominating

G. Possible New Committees:

• Bibliographies/Literacy Committee
• Intellectual Freedom/Political/Legislative Advocacy Committee

H. Propose creating Ad Hoc Committees for

• Procedures Manual

# tasked to identify procedural items in Bylaws and propose removing them
# explicate procedures as needed
# streamline procedures as needed
# Should committees reevaluate their procedures and policies and provide them to this committee, or
# Should this committee do the reevaluation

• Rainbow Project joint evaluation
• Tool-kits (part of possible Bibliographies/Literacy Committee)

I. Propose amendments about Meetings

• Membership meeting at Midwinter - yes/no
• Fixed times for meetings (will require more fixed program times)

J. Propose amendments about dues and costs of events

• Changing dues structure

# Lower/free for students, unemployed, and limited income retirees
# Some kind of honor system sliding scale?

• Sliding scale for ticketed events

# BAC Brunch
# Fortieth Anniversary Gala
# Rainbow Project Breakfast

11. Announcements

12. Adjournment