PRESENT: President Carla D. Hayden; President-elect Carol A. Brey-Casiano; Treasurer Teri R. Switzer; Immediate Past President Maurice J. (Mitch) Freedman; Executive Director Keith Michael Fiels; Executive Board members: Kathleen E. Bethel, Nancy Davenport, Michael Golrick, Michael Gorman, Kenton (Kent) Oliver, James R. Rettig, Barbara K. Stripling and Patricia (Patty) Wong.

The agenda (APABD #9.1) is attached as Exhibit 1. The vote tally (APABD #1.1) is attached as Exhibit 2.

The ALA-APA Board of Directors convened at 3:10pm, on Monday, January 12, 2004, with President Carla Hayden presiding. President Hayden began the meeting by introducing Tracie Hall, Director of the Office for Diversity. Tracie announced the debut of the office's newsletter, Versed , and distributed copies to board members.

Procedural/Consent

By consent, approved the agenda for the 2004 Midwinter ALA-APA Board of Directors Meeting (APABD #9.1). Consent

By consent, approved the minutes of the Fall meeting of the ALA-APA Board of Directors (APABD #2.0). Consent

Discussion/Exploration

ALA-APA Update - Keith introduced Jenifer Grady, the new Director of ALA-APA. He announced the inaugural issue of Library Worklife: HR E-News for Today's Leaders , which was distributed via email to ALA members before conference. The pricing for the monthly newsletter was adjusted to capture previous individual subscribers of Library Personnel News . Organizational members of ALA receive Library Worklife as a benefit of membership.

Certification - Keith reported that meetings have been held about the Public Library Administrators certification program (CPLA). Kerry Ward, Director of ALTA, is developing a marketing plan as part of his coursework for a master's degree in business administration [master's degree in nonprofit management]. Approving providers of the coursework in an additional revenue stream identified.

Standing Committee on the Salaries and Status of Library Workers - Mitch, Chair, reported on recent activities.

• Dynix verbally agreed to supply an annual award of $5000 to" the person who did the most to promote better salaries and pay equity for library workers."

• Dynix agreed to supply a "substantial amount of money" to "support the activities of the committee," such as travel

• The Standing Committee has named working groups, such as statistics and Web site

• Electronic donations, in response to Barbara's question, will be an important part of the Website design

• National Library Workers Day has been discussed by the Standing Committee members, to be held the Tuesday of National Library Week. Michael Gorman addressed tensions with the name of the National Library Workers Day, some members he met with having suggested Library Employees Day. The slogan: Libraries work because we do

• 12-minute advocacy video on why library workers should be paid better, pay equity, and comparable worth

• The committee has formed a relationship with AFL-CIO's Department of Public Employees [Department for Professional Employees] with the Chair of the ALA/AFL-CIO Committee [Pamela Wilson]. They will be co-sponsoring a breakfast at Annual.

• The ALA Pay Equity Committee should "go out of business," with the approval of the current Pay Equity Committee members and Council

Finance and Audit Subcommittee (APAF&A) Report - Teri asked Greg Calloway, ALA CFO to elaborate on the changes to board document 4.0.1, a revised memorandum of understanding. Rather than using the indirect cost rate initially proposed, a new metric, a ratio is used in this document. It makes assumptions about the FTEs that provide services to ALA-APA as the numerator (3.2) with total FTEs for ALA as the denominator (211). The factor that results [.01516] is multiplied against all ALA expenses to approximate the indirect support from ALA to ALA-APA. There will still be direct expenses, such as telephone charges. ALA-APA will pay a higher amount than with the previous calculation. The MOU will be reviewed at future discussions with legal council.

Voted to, on the recommendation of the ALA-APA Finance and Audit subcommittee (ALA-APA F&A), approve the Revised Memorandum of Understanding (APABD #4.0.1). F&A #1

Adjournment