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Korean American Librarians and Information Professionals
Association
Quarterly Meeting Minutes
Time: September 24, 2004 at 6:30 p.m.
Place:O-dae San, Los Angeles,
California
Attendees: Young-sil Lee, Yi Un-joo, Paick Heawon, Kang Mi-gyong, Won Dave, Shin Tae-ok, Lim Miki, Kim Won-taeck, Rhim Choon-hee.
1. Progress Report on Library User's Guide
- KALIPA received $1,000 from Korean Cultural Center..
- Yi Young-sil thanked Han Kum-sook and Shin Tae-ok for their help to get the grant.
- Target pages are maximum 12 pages with the following division: Cover and the back with 2, Cultural Center with 2, Academic with 2, and the public with the remaining pages
- Plan to publish 1,000 booklets
- Dave Won will investigate the printing cost
- Each committee is as follows:
- Public - Han Chung-sil (LAPL); Paick Heawon (LAPL); Yi Un-joo (CLAPL)
- Academic - Kang Mi-gyong (UCLA); Lee Sun-yoon (USC)
- Special - Korean Cultural Center
- Coordinator - Yi Young-sil
- Design, Layout, and Printing - Dave Won (CLAPL)
- Publication Target Date - March 15, 2005
- It is encouraged for the committee members communicate frequently.
- Target budget is set to $2,000 depending on the printing cost.
2. Scholarship
- The announcement will be going out to Library schools in California area.
- The Application deadline is December 1, 2004
- Space Amazing has not fulfilled its commitment regarding sponsoring the scholarship. It is suggested and agreed that the company's name should be removed from the homepage.
3. Other Discussion Items
- Heawon Paick will find the mailing address of Charlotte Kim of Chicago Public Library and send a card and flower arrangement for her recovery from illness.
- It is suggested that sending out a letter for asking more members to pay membership dues and soliciting fund for scholarship. Yi Young-sil and Han Kum-sook will look into it.
4. Announcement
- Kim Yon-sin who is an Outreach Librarian at Queens Public Library contacted Yi Young-sil for possible joint programs for Korean American patrons.
- Soon Jung (Newport) has a Granddaughter now and Nancy Park has a new daughter in addition to her son.
- Rhim Choon-hee announced that her college (East Los Angeles College) received a grant of $50,000 from Amazon for book purchasing.
- Kang Mi-gyong announced that UCLA's Center for Korean Studies received and endowment of $1,000,000. Also UCLA's Orion Catalog System was converted to Voyager, which allows the users to search in Korean and Chinese characters.
- Yi Youngsil tried to contact Shin Yong-gi at Orange County Public Library a few times but failed.
5. The meeting was adjourned at 9:30 p.m.
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