Gretchen Asam, Edna Comstock, Sylvia Norton, Teri Caouette, Eileen Broderick, Nancy Grant, Jeff Small, Mary Simpson, Francie Aley, Pam Goucher, Cindy Bufithis, Margaret McNamee.

SECRETARY’S REPORT
Acceptance was moved and passed.

TREASURER’S REPORT
Additional account signatures (Edna will be added) and scholarship money transfers were discussed. Acceptance was moved and passed.

Sylvia mentioned the job opening at the Department of Education.

A motion was passed to recognize a to-be-announced person with an honorary membership in MASL with all the benefits and a token of appreciation to be presented at the Maine Libraries Conference in October. Another similar proposal was also discussed.

SUPPORT STAFF WORKSHOP
Thirty people from all over the state attended a very well received workshop for paraprofessionals. Income and expenses are still being determined. Door prizes included drawings for refunds of personally paid registrations and a gift certificate to Shaw's.

Small groups brainstormed all the tasks that are done by paraprofessionals. After reporting out the range, everyone prioritized the most important and most enjoyed tasks as well as the least important and least enjoyed. At a mini-follow up meeting the chart lists will be wordsmithed.

The major benefit of the workshop was that awareness of MASL's support to paraprofessionals was heightened. Hopefully, the end result will be to have a paraprofessional job description on the web to compare the specific differences between the paraprofessional and the professional job descriptions. There will be a follow up workshop at the Maine Libraries Conference to discuss who does what jobs. We will offer a discount for paraprofessional workshop attendees to go to the Maine Libraries Conference. It was suggested that a letter should be sent to principals acknowledging that ed techs took a personal Saturday to attend the valuable workshop. Nancy encouraged board members to pay MASL membership for their ed techs.

High School Summit
Nancy Grant went to Boston for the High School Summit. Speakers and participants in small groups with facilitators discussed changes from Carnegie units, technology initiatives, and reading in content areas among other topics. Nancy distributed a handout summarizing what our focus should be. She encouraged all board members to continue to advocate for libraries and for the teaching and professional expertise of librarians

The Literacy Summer Institute was discussed. It is an opportunity for schools to send teams including principals and a content reading mentor who will help all the teachers focus on teaching kids to read in content area. It is important for school librarians to make an impact in this area. FYI, consult http://www.knowledgeloom.org

It was agreed that standards should be our focus for summer work. Stipends are available. The rubric template is already in place. It's the wording that will take the time. Work meetings will be held July 12 Monday, 9-3 and July 26, 9 -3 at the Maine State Library with a catered lunch. Individuals will work on rubrics to be turned in at the second meeting.

The proposed meeting schedule was discussed. It was decided that there will not be an October meeting prior to the Conference on October 17/18/19. The possibilities of ATM meetings or meetings in member libraries were also discussed.

It was agreed that MASL is proud to support Jay Sherma’s dissemination of the tax cap videos since the opportunity to inform is one of our primary missions. An announcement will be posted to ME-LIBS.

LMS of the year and Administrator of the year awards were discussed. The committee has received a few nominations for each. There was a suggestion to send mass mailing next year to all administrators inviting them to nominate their LMS

It was decided to dedicate some Board meeting time to all our communications including PR and the webpage next year.

MAINE LIBRARIES CONFERENCE
The program did not go out to school libraries before year end. It will go out this summer.
Sixty seven programs were proposed; some could be combined. We need programs for the Tuesday program.

BOARD VACANCIES

The chairs for legislative, support staff, and continuing education are among the vacant positions. Several people have expressed an interest.

There was a review of the executive secretary position with a few additions and tweakings.
A motion was passed unanimously to continue the position.

There was a short discussion of a one year presidency.

The meeting was adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,
Margaret McNamee
Secretary