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SIS INFO
Vol. 15, No. 1
January  2001

Editor’s Corner

Future Meetings

If you would like to host a future meeting, or if you have a suggestion for a future program, contact Wanda Barrett, SIS Vice-President, with your ideas. Wanda can be reached by email at wanda@everlove.net or by phone at Everlove & Associates, 727-34508180.

News to Share

The SIS Newsletter is a great way to share news, conference announcements, achievements, and items of interest with all organization members. Please send your news to the Editor, Nancy Becker, so we can include it in our next newsletter.

From the Editor

Well, it's the new year. Last issue I promised a longer, more newsy product this time. Well, folks, I lied! Time got past me, and I lost the December minutes that CD so promptly sent immediately after the meeting. Too much efficiency is confusing! In fact, I was so busy with other things, I forgot about the Newsletter altogether. I guess my New Year's resolution will have to be to make the Newsletter unforgettable this year. Unfortunately, I'm not off to a rousing start. But I promise to tattoo the next print date to my forehead, so that I won't forget it again. If you have any news or items of interest or information you'd like to see in the next newsletter, send them to me via email at: beckern@thpl.org or nanbecker@hotmail.com

Sites of Interest?

December Meeting

CD McLean, outgoing Secretary, had this to say about the December meeting: You all missed a most tasty and fun SIS meeting if you didn't attend last night's meeting at BAE Systems (formerly Reflectone) hosted by Betsy King. The BAE conference room is an elegant room and lent the meeting a bit of formality, which, due to our very interesting and entertaining introductions (most humorous award goes to Linda Brakeall...ask about her evil/good twin 8-), we were able to dispel. The food was excellent and a bargain too as there was so much of it that we all took plates home to our spouses or roommates or to have for lunch the next day. The menu included stuffed mushroom caps, chicken tenders, chicken breast in a mushroom gravy, club wrap sandwiches, pesto pasta salad, fresh picante sauce, rocky road brownies and cookies. The general consensus was to have the meetings always at BAE! 8-)

December Minutes

Meeting was opened by Outgoing SIS president MaryKaye Raddatz. This meeting was a joint meeting with the Central Florida Association of Law Libraries: CFALL (http://tblc.org/cfall/), Tampa Bay Medical Library Network: (TABAMLN) (http://www.fmhi.usf.edu/tabamln/) and the USF School of Library and Information Science: SLIS (http://www.cas.usf.edu/lis/). The purpose of the joint meeting was to expand our network of library friends to all sectors of librarianship.

Prez Raddatz emphasized that it was especially nice that we had a large attendance at this meeting as it was the holidays and people could have very easily not come. She thanked everyone for making the time to attend. Prez Raddatz went on to note that SIS is open to all librarians regardless of your specialty or whether you are a student, employee or retiree. The outgoing officers were introduced and the incoming officers were welcomed. Incoming officers are Ray Eydmann (Pres.), Wanda Barrett (VP), Theresa Burress (Secretary), Betsy King (Treas.). Appointed positions are being held by Nancy Becker (Newsletter), John Davies (Webmaster), CD McLean (List owner).

During the introductions, Linda Brakeall mentioned that CFALL would be having a meeting on Whether Reference Service Can Be Evaluated. She will be taking the positive and Madison Moseley, former FLA president, will be taking the negative. It was discussed and informally agreed upon that SIS will join with CFALL for this Feb. meeting, which may be held at Stetson (another good food meeting place).

Betsy showed the CFALL and TABAMLN websites and did a quick tour through them. She then presented the SIS website and spoke briefly about it and how John Davies is in the process of taking over ownership of the website. Betsy has done a fabulous job of keeping us all informed and up-to-date with SIS happenings. John has some large shoes to fill!

The business meeting was concluded.

Ms. King then gave us a synopsis of BAE Systems operations and a tour of the flight simulator factory. Then we headed up the stairs to see her library. After the tour we all gathered up our plates of food and headed for home. We hope you will join us in Feb. for our joint CFALL/SIS meeting. If you have any ideas for a meeting or want to host a meeting, please let Wanda Barrett know by emailing her at wanda@everlove.net. Ms. Barrett's company has a job opening for a library assistant. If you are interested, please contact Ms. Barrett for more information.

February Meeting

Suncoast Information Specialists
c/o Tampa Bay Library Consortium
1202 Tech Boulevard, Suite 202
Tampa, FL 33619

Phone:  (813) 622-8252
Email:  sis@tblc.org
Electronic list: http://tblc.org/sis/list.htm
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