HBCU Library Alliance HBCU Library Alliance

Organizational Meeting


 
Sheraton Buckhead Hotel, Atrium Level, Atlanta, Georgia
October 27-29, 2002



Agenda

Sunday, October 27
 
  3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Facilitator and Recorder Orientation
  3:00 pm - 6:00 pm Registration Desk Opens
Monday, October 28  
  7:30 am - 9:00 am Registration Desk and Continental Breakfast
  9:00 am - 9:15 am Introduction and Vision, Loretta O?Brien-Parham
  9:15 am - 9:45 am Roll Call of Historically Black Colleges and Universities
  9:45 am - 10:00 am Facilitator Introduction, Merryll Penson
  10:00 am - 10:15 am Discussion Paper: A Call for Cooperation Among HBCU Libraries, Janice Franklin
  10:15 am - 10:45 am Break
  10:45 am - 12:45 pm Breakout Sessions
    Red Group: Preservation and Digitization for Cultural Materials - Heritage A
    Blue Group: Information and Advocacy ?A? Information Collection and Analysis - Heritage C
    Yellow Group: Information and Advocacy ?B? Advocacy and Communication -Buckhead 1
    Green Group: Human Resources: Shared Expertise, Recruitment and Staff Development - Buckhead 2
    Orange Group: Better Access to Collections/Facilities ? Lenox
  1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch ? Comments, Susan Perry/Mellon Foundation and Deanna Marcum/CLIR
  2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Breakout Session Report and Prioritization, Merryll Penson and HBCU Library Initiative, Task Force Members
  2:45 pm - 3:15 pm Break
   3:15 pm - 4:00 pm HBCU Library Initiative Vision, Merryll Penson and HBCU Library Directors
  4:00 pm - 4:30 pm Cooperative Organization Models, Merryll Penson
  6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Dinner and Keynote Speaker, Dr. Dianne Boardley Suber, President, Saint Augustine?s College, NC
Tuesday, October 29  
  7:30 am - 8:30 am Continental Breakfast
  8:30 am - 8:45 am Greetings and Recap
  8:45 am - 10:30 am Breakout Sessions
    Red Group: Organization and Governance 1 ? Heritage A
    Blue Group: Organization and Governance 2 ? Heritage C
    Yellow Group: Funding ? Buckhead 1
    Green Group: Programmatic Priorities and Products ? Buckhead 2
    Orange Group: Vision and Mission ? Lenox
  10:30 am - 11:00 am Break
  11:00 am - 12:30 pm Breakout Session Report (Task Force Members), Next Steps and Commitment, Merryll Penson
  12:30 pm - 12:45 pm Closing
  1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Statistics Committee Meeting ? Working Lunch (Lenox)