About NASIG

Date, Time: April 13, 2004, 11:06 A.M. - 11:16 A.M.
Place: Conference Call

Purpose: To select a member at large to fulfill the final year of a term left vacant by the election of Mary Page as NASIG Vice-President/President-Elect for 2004/05.

Participants:
Anne McKee, President
Eleanor Cook, Past-President
Steve Savage, Vice-President/President-Elect
Denise Novak, Treasurer
Bea Caraway, Secretary
Carol MacAdam
Bob Persing
Kevin Randall
Joyce Tenney

McKee called the NASIG Executive Board into executive session at 11:06 A.M. Central Daylight Saving Time. She stated that our goal was to select someone to replace Mary Page as member at large for the last year of her term, which will become vacant due to her recent election as NASIG Vice-President/President-Elect for 2004/05. McKee reported that all nominations received had named Judy Luther. Luther was the member at large candidate receiving the next highest number of votes after the winning candidates in the recent election. McKee asked for questions or comments about the nominee. MacAdam noted that Luther had been an excellent contributor as a member of the Strategic Planning Task Force. McKee noted that it was Luther who had put forward the idea of collaborating with the UKSG in the matter of the UKSG Serials E-news publication. MacAdam asked if Luther, who has done consulting work for NASIG in the past, would be able to serve as a consultant for NASIG while serving on the board. McKee stated that she would not be able to do so; she would make this clear to Luther in the event that the board selected her. McKee also noted that since the term would last less than one year plus one day and would thus not be a full term, Luther would be eligible to stand for re-election to the board next year.

Having completed discussion, the board was ready for a vote. Savage moved (MacAdam seconded) that the NASIG Executive Board select Judy Luther to serve out the remainder of the member at large term vacated by Mary Page upon her election as vice-president/president-elect of NASIG, the term to begin at the conclusion of the June 2004 conference and to last until the conclusion of the May 2005 conference. The motion passed unanimously, Schmitt and Page having submitted proxy votes to the president in advance of the conference call.

McKee indicated that she would call Luther as soon as possible to inform her of the outcome of the vote, and then would work with president-elect Savage to draft an announcement for NASIG-L.

The meeting was adjourned at 11:16 A.M