NCLA MinutesIssue: Annual Elections: The Committee recommends thatNCLA seriously consider annual elections after establishing arelationship with an association management firm.Issue: Annual Conferences. The Committee suggests thatNCLA seriously consider holding annual conferences, afterestablishing a relationship with a management firm and afterdues are collected annually.Fedora distributed the roster of the Futures Committee.She offered to meet with anyone interested in discussing therecommendations.Richard Barker, Marjorie Lindsey and John Thomas, othermembers of the Futures Committee who were present, wererecognized by Mrs. Myrick, and each of them expressed the hopethat the recommendations would be carefully considered.President Myrick commended the Futures Committee for itsgood work, noting that more than two years of study have beendevoted to the task. She urged that careful thinking be given thereport to avoid coming to hasty conclusions. In January we willhave more information about the management recommenda-tion which may not have to go through membership before adecision can be made. During discussion that followed it waspointed out that input obtained from sections should includeindication of the services provided by IMI, the recommendedmanagement firm, that would be needed.Past President Leland Park expressed his personal thanksto the Committee and stated that NCLA must continue to func-tion as a self-directed professional association. He urged thatservices of a management firm be looked at as administrativeassistance.Discussion followed concerning the appropriate way to dis-seminate the information. Kieth Wright recommended that thereport be sent to every member of NCLA with the request thatcomments be directed to the Executive Board before time for itsdiscussion in January. Nancy Massey moved that the report bemailed to the entire membership in an expeditious and econom-ical manner. The motion was seconded by Rebecca Taylor andpassed.The President called for the report of the NominatingCommittee. Chairperson Mertys Bell passed out copies of thereport and presented the slate of officers for NCLA for the 1987-89 biennium as follows:First Vice-President and President-Elect: Barbara A.Baker, Durham Technical College, Durham; Shirley B.McLaughlin, Asheville-Buncombe Technical College, Ashe-ville.Second Vice-President: Nelda C. Caddell, South CentralRegional Education Center, Carthage; Ray A. Frankle, J.Murrey Atkins Library, UNC-Charlotte.Secretary: Gloria Miller, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools,Charlotte; Susan M. Squires, Greensboro College Library,Greensboro.Directors: Vivian W. Beech, New Hanover County PublicLibrary, Wilmington; Janet L. Freeman, Carlyle CampbellLibrary, Meredith College, Raleigh; Nancy O. Massey,Hyconeechee Regional Library, Yanceyville; Howard F.McGinn, State Library, Raleigh.The Nominating Committee's report was accepted.Kieth Wright, ALA Councilor, announced that free access toALA through Alanet has been established by the ExecutiveSecretary and the Executive Committee of ALA to provide a linkbetween ALA and state associations. Board members whowould like to use this means of communicating may obtain thepass number from Wright.President Myrick informed the Board that she must attenda meeting of the NCASL for lunch. She asked Patsy Hansel tochair the meeting during her absence.The meeting was adjourned for lunch at 12:00. It was re-convened at 1:15 p.m. with Patsy Hansel presiding.46"Spring 1987In the absence of Jerry Thrasher, Hansel presented high-lights from a report submitted by Thrasher on the SELA Bien-nial Conference held October 14-18 in Atlanta. It was noted thatNorth Carolina ranked second in attendance and that severalNorth Carolinians were on the program.Frances Bradburn announced that the Education issue ofNorth Carolina Libraries with Ben Speller as guest editor isscheduled to be mailed on January 30, 1987. Future issues andtheir editors include: Spring 1987"Status of Women and Minor-ities in Librarianship, Jean Weldon, guest editor; Summer1987"School Librarianship, Katherine Cagle, guest editor; Fall1987"Intellectual Freedom, Gene Lanier, guest editor; Winter1987"Conference Issue.Bradburn reported that the North Carolina LibrariesExecutive Board has decided upon the following rate changesfor institutional members: Yearly Subscription rate"$32.00;single issue rate"$10.00. It was mentioned that use is beingmade of the North Carolina Libraries Style Manual whichMichael Cotter revised before he resigned from the NCL Board.Lisa Dalton has replaced Cotter on the Board.Reporting for the ChildrenTs Services Section, Rebecca Tay-lor told the Executive Board that The Chapbook was mailed outon October 4. Copies were sent to NCLA Board members. TheSection is planning to present a speaker during the 1987 NCLAConference. The history of the Section is now in rough draftform.Elizabeth Smith, Chair of the College and University Section,reported that the Section is continuing to plan for a program ononline catalogs to be held in the Spring of 1987. It is expectedthat a decision will be reached in November concerning spon-sorship of the ALA/LAMA Institute oManagement of the OnlineCatalog.�Mary Avery informed the Board that a meeting of the Com-munity and Junior College SectionTs board will be held soon.Reporting for the Documents Section, Janet Rowland, out-going Chair, announced that beginning today Waltrene Canadais the SectionTs Chair. Canada has planned the program oUnfold-ing Maps,� which is scheduled to be presented on November 7 atthe Hilton Hotel in Greensboro. Rowland stated that MarjorieLindseyTs article oState Documents: Proposed Statewide Deposi-tory Systems� will be published in the Fall 1986 issue of PopularGovernment. Pat Langelier recently reported to the Section thatthe funding of the bill drafted by the SectionTs State DocumentsDepository System Committee has been included in theDepartment of Cultural ResourcesT request to the Governor.J. A. Killian greeted the Board on behalf of the North Caro-lina Public Library Trustee Association. He stated that attentionof the Association is being focused on plans for next yearTs con-ference.The report of the Public Library Section was given by Chair-person Nancy Massey. She announced that the Adult ServicesCommittee has scheduled a November workshop on resourcesin each of the areas of statistics, medicine and law. The awardrecipients of the SectionTs Research Grant Program will benamed following the reviewing of grant applications by theDevelopment Committee. The Genealogy/Local History Commit-tee is continuing to work on a manual for public libraries, withthe assistance of Ms. Alice Cotten of the North Carolina Collec-tion at UNC-Chapel Hill. Workshops on fund raising for publiclibrary construction were sponsored by the Trustee/FriendsCommittee in Fayetteville and Lexington. Other committees ofthe Public Library Section that have reported on future pro-grams include the Young Adult Committee and the LiteracyCommittee.Jean Amelang, reporting for the Reference and Adult Serv-ices Section, announced that on November 7, 1986, the Com-mittee will co-sponsor with the North Carolina Library StaffDevelopment Program a workshop oHigh Touch/High-Tech: