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Minutes- April 24, 2003
EndUser 2003 Chicago, IL - Location: Salon 10, Marriott 7:30-9:30pm

Attendance:
Diné College - David Hurley, Rosita Klee; Getty Research Institute - Sally Crosby, Heather Hessel, Tom Burton-West; Hope International University - Robin Hartman; Intel Corp. - Carlotta Knapo; LA County Law Library - Melody Lembke, Meiling Li; Master's College & Seminary - Anna Lois Kroll; Pepperdine University - Christopher Thomas; Santiago Canyon College - Alice Ho; Truckee Meadows Community College - John Fitzsimmons, Susan Jimenez; Westmont College - Claudia Scott.

Welcome - Coffee & Dessert Sign in & Correction of Member information
Introductions
  • Officers - Robin Hartman, Chair was in attendance. Neither the Secretary/Treasurer, Nell Yang, or the Chair-Elect, Stephanie Tetter were able to attend due to travel funds frozen for Community Colleges in California.
  • Members - Everyone introduced themselves. Note: New to SWVUG meetings included Susan Jimenez of Truckee Meadows Community College, Rosita Klee and David Hurley of Diné College in Arizona. David was a recipient of a BonVoyagé Grant to attend EndUser.
  • Endeavor Staff - Noreen Allen, Continuing Sales Manager for our region introduced herself and offered her services to the group as needed.

Old Business
  • Minutes of January 2003 Meeting Approved.

New Business
  • Financial Report - Robin reported that the organization has over $2,000 left over from the training events. Discussion: One consideration was to provide a grant to members to attend EndUser. Most people seemed to like the idea of using the funds to lower the cost of tuition of the next Training Event for everyone. No vote was taken.
  • Chairperson-elect- Jennifer Lagier was introduced to the group by way of a hand out with a short bio. One reservation reported was that we would like to see officers represent different regions (both Stephanie and Jennifer are in the Monterey area. Robin and Nell are both in Orange County). After very little discussion, Jennifer was unanimously elected as the new Chair-Elect to take office effective at the end of the meeting.
  • Report on name change issues (Voyager to EndUser) - Robin reported that there had been some discussion among the officers about whether to change our name to reflect the direction of the international User's Group. Nell pointed out the problem related to our IRS non-profit incorporation status. Melody Lembke suggested that the term "Interest Group" might be better than "Users Group". Chris Thomas asked what Endeavor's position was on it. After some discussion it was agreed that unless Endeavor required us to change our name, we should keep our current name.
  • Plans for next meeting / training event - Robin distributed a survey created by Stephanie Tetter to determine the interest of those present in possible times and topics for the next Training Event to be held in Monterey. Stephanie will send the survey out by email to the rest of the membership.

Open to Questions from the Floor Discussion of possible training issues. Melody asked about more specific Acquisitions needs. Anna Lois asked about Serials. There was some discussion about Unix training and add-on applications. Also functional training for new staff and as a refresher for people who had been trained years ago on modules that they have not begun implementing until recently. Encompass and LinkFinderPlus was also discussed, calling on Tom Burton-West's experience.
Adjournment

Respectfully submitted,
Robin Hartman
Chair


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