ALISS AGM 2009 Minutes

1. ALISS AGM 5th May 2009
British Library
Attending
Margaret Anderson, Queens University Belfast, ALISS committee
J.Alderson-Rice, University of Kent
Julie Boyd-Reynolds, Corporate Sales Manager EBSCO (speaker)
Jacquie Carter, British Library
Sally Curry, Library Collaboration Programme Manager, Research information Network
Lesley Curtis-Brown, Middlesex University
Anne Dagpunar, SOAS Library (ALISS Committee)
Heather Dawson, LSE Library (ALISS Secretary)
Liam Earney, Collections Team Manager, JISC Collections. (Speaker)
Birgit.Fraser Anglia Ruskin University
Lesley Gray, Cambridge University Library
Jennie Grimshaw , British Library (ALISS Treasurer)
Sally Halper, Lead Content Specialist - Business & Management, British Library(Speaker)
Raymond Harper, student, University of Sheffield
Diane Kearns, University of Bradford (ALISS Committee)
Helen Mackin, Barnardos (ALISS Committee)
Marie Nicholson, University of Lincoln
David O'Neill, Anglo-European College of Chiropractic
Sally Patalong, Coventry University (ALISS Committee)
James Pawley, Journals Sales Manager, SAGE
Jean Portman University of Surrey
Kate Purcell, Birkbeck College
Eilis Rafferty, Queen Mary College
Kate Robinson, University of Bath
Laurie Salemohamed, Loughborough University
Jane Secker, LSE
Vimal Shah, Kings College
Helen Stephen, Goldsmiths College
Judith Stevens, Keele University
Vivienne Stiemens, Policy Studies Institute
June Thoburn – Northumbria University
Angela Upton, SCIE (ALISS Chairperson)
Anne Worden University of Portsmouth
Zina Sabovic, Wellcome Institute
Apologies
Angela Joyce, ILRT; Norma Menabney Queen University Belfast.

2. ALISS Finance
Jennie Grimshaw presented the draft accounts for 2008/9 This showed that ALISS continued to
maintain a firm financial basis. Marcus Wooley University of Luton Treasurer of the CILIP
Information Group was elected as Treasurer 2008/9.
Review of Activities.
Heather Dawson provided a brief summary of ALISS Events during 2008/9.
Membership.
Despite the financial recession membership had remained relatively stable. Individual
membership had increased. It had been decided to hold a reserve of funds in the current account
to cushion against any future cancellations caused by the recession.
Journal
ALISS continues to publish the journal ALISS Quarterly
Special issues were on new ways of supporting researchers, web 2.0, Digital repositories
The winner of the annual prize for the most inspiring and informative article is Kate Robinson
for her article on around the World in 80+ Books, an innovative project involving international
students in Library collection development at the University of Bath. http://opus.bath.ac.uk/448/
1/aliss%252080%2520plus.pdf The runner up is Miggie Pickton for her article on developing the
institutional repository at the University of Northampton. http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/1283/
Website
Papers from past events continued to be loaded on the website. However, technical issues meant
that the loading of large slides had been difficult. As a result some had been loaded on a separate
slideshare account. During 2009 we will be investigating revamping the website to incorporate a
better structure, easier editing for aliss members and web 2.0 features.
Conferences
July 2008 Northern Ireland conference on supporting researchers in the social sciences
August 2008 summer conference Web 2.0 policy and Practice
December 2008 event : SCIE and Social care online
March 2009 Web 2.0 hands on workshop in Bristol
Papers online on our website at: http://www.alissnet.org.uk/ select past events.
Visits
Commonwealth Institute
Institute of Psychiatry

3. Royal Armouries Library
Middle temple Library
Clothworkers hall and Archive
British Library EDC
Committee Membership 2008/9
The following were elected as committee members.
Angela Upton – SCIE (Social Care Institute for Excellence) Chair
Margaret Anderson Queens University BelfastHeather Dawson – LSE Library (Secretary
and Editor ALISS Quarterly)Jennie Grimshaw - British Library (Treasurer)Helen Mackin
- Barnardos Norma Menabney Queens University Belfast
Anne Dagpunar School of Oriental and African Studies Library
Angela Joyce ILRT University of Bristol
Diane Kearns University of Bradford
Sally Patalong University of Coventry
Forthcoming Activities
A series of visits are planned including: London Zoo archive, University of Oxford social
sciences library, London Metropolitan Archive
Summer 2009 conference planned for July at the University of Coventry general theme
marketing the library service in difficult times.
Proposed revamp / re-design of our website to incorporate more dynamic web 2.0 features!
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• Enhancing the website to provide more current awareness news items
Heather Dawson.
ALISS Secretary
h.dawson@lse.ac.uk