Minutes of the Wittenborn Committee Business Meeting Held at the ARLIS/NA
Conference, Philadelphia, PA,  on Friday 6 March 1998 at 5:15 p.m.



Marilyn Berger welcomed members of both the outgoing and incoming committees.
 
The Wittenborn panel and portrait produced by the outgoing committee were
discussed with a view to their future use. 

Messages from the Board were conveyed: members were reminded of the May 31st
deadline for special funding requests, and of communication through
Committee-L and Group-L. Members were also urged to attend the Leadership
Breakfast, the Chapter Officers' Breakfast, and the Membership Meeting. They
were reminded that the Management Calendar, Strategic Plan and Committee
Guidelines were all available on the ARLIS/NA Website.

Plans for the immediate award presentation at Convocation were reviewed.

The schedule for the Exhibit Table was outlined by Daphne Dufresne, and a
detailed plan for supervision of the exhibit was organized. 

Plans were made to arrange for authors to take part in book-signing during
exhibit hours.

The report on the activities of the 1997 committee was reviewed; members
felt that considerable progress had been made, and a lively discussion took
place regarding possible follow-up activities by the new committee. Issues
included the possible development of guidelines for the inclusion of
multimedia either as a part of the Wittenborn awards or as a separate award.
One recommendation was to find a sponsor for such a category. Also discussed
was the possibility of digitizing the award slides and mounting these on the
Website with the presentation texts, with links to the winners, as well as
the possibility of securing funding to enable an author to attend the award
ceremony.

Following further discussion, the meeting was adjourned at 6:45 p.m.


Respectfully submitted,



Rosemary Haddad
Recorder
George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award Committee