{"id":1007,"date":"2015-07-05T14:39:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T02:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dnwfriends.nzl.org\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2015-07-07T06:49:03","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T18:49:03","slug":"agm-minutes-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dnwfriends.nzl.org\/index.php\/2015\/07\/05\/agm-minutes-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"AGM Minutes 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>FRIENDS OF THE DOROTHY NEAL WHITE COLLECTION<br \/>\nANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2015<br \/>\nMINUTES<\/h1>\n<p>Tiakiwai Conference Centre, National Library of New Zealand, Wellington 6:35 pm, Thursday 7 May 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The AGM was preceded by a presentation from Dr Nicola Daly, current recipient of the Friends\u2019 research grant. Nicola spoke about her research looking at national identity in children\u2019s books, focusing on New Zealand and Australia.<\/p>\n<p>CHAIR: Joan McCracken \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<wbr \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 MINUTES: Chantalle Smith<\/p>\n<p>MINUTES<\/p>\n<p>Seventeen members attended the AGM: Diane Scott, Nancy Hill, Mary Hall, Gail Andrews, Neil Robertson, Barbara Robertson, Sheila Williams, Lynne Jackett, Maria Heenan, Deidre McFarland, Tania Connelly, Fiona Gray, Alison Grant, Mary Hutton, Trevor Mowbray, Mary Skarott, Chantalle Smith.<\/p>\n<p>1. Apologies: Janet Blake, Corrina Gordon, Alan Smith, Kathryn Walls, Dorothy Mitchell, Rosemary Cole, Mary Attwool, Susan Price, Audrey Cooper.<\/p>\n<p>2.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnwfriends.nzl.org\/index.php\/2015\/06\/23\/agm-minutes-2014\/\"> Last year&#8217;s minutes<\/a> were circulated and accepted \u2013 Lynne Jackett\/Mary Skarott.<\/p>\n<p>3. Matters arising from previous minutes. See the presidents report for details.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The publication of the Notes-Books-Authors 12.<\/li>\n<li>There was a talk held in October 2014 by Jill Shefrin. She discussed the history of children\u2019s literature and book illustration in the 18th century.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>4. <strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\">President\u2019s report<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Joan spoke to the report which has been previously circulated. Mary Skarott delivered the research librarian\u2019s portion of the report. The report was accepted\u2013Barbara Robertson\/Joan McCracken.<\/p>\n<p>5. Matters arising from the President\u2019s Report<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is still no patron. Two authors have been approached. One reluctantly declined, we haven\u2019t has a response yet from the second.<\/li>\n<li>If people have not received their copy of Notes-Books-Authors they should let Joan know. If people would like to contribute to the newsletter, they should let Joan know.<\/li>\n<li>Lynne\u00a0 Jackett thanked the committee for their work and the publications.<\/li>\n<li>Trevor Mowbray noted Joan going above and beyond with all the work she contributes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>6.Treasurer\u2019s Financial Report<\/p>\n<p>Joan McCracken presented the Financial Report for 2014-2015 on behalf of the treasurer Janet Blake. She notes there has been an uptake on subscription payments made through online. We continue to pay for the post office box as FOTL do not want to share theirs \u2013 Joan McCracken\/Sheila Williams<\/p>\n<p>7. Matters arising from the Treasurer\u2019s Report<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Motion to move subscription of $20. Accepted \u2013 Lynne Jackett\/Alison Grant<\/li>\n<li>Fiona Gray raised the question of using the Alexander Turnbull or National Library PO Box number. It was noted there was historically an issue with separating the mail.<\/li>\n<li>The grant, which is $2000, is formally offered every two years. If someone was to approach beforehand with a great research idea it could be offered. Next time it will be advertised is 2016.<\/li>\n<li>On membership form we should put that we are a charitable trust with the charity number.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Action: Joan to follow up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>8. Election of officers<\/p>\n<p>We have managed for the last year without a President. It is not appropriate for the committee members who are National Library staff members to take on the role of President. The chairing and minuting our committee meetings are rotated. The current committee roles are:<\/p>\n<p>Patron: vacant (see #5 matters arising from the President\u2019s Report)<\/p>\n<p>President: vacant<\/p>\n<p>Treasurer: Jeff Hunt (happy to take the role but will not attend meetings)<\/p>\n<p>Secretary: Corrina Gordon<\/p>\n<p>Newsletter editor: Joan McCracken<\/p>\n<p>Research Librarian, Children\u2019s Literature: Mary Skarott<\/p>\n<p>Committee: Chantalle Smith, Kathryn Walls, Barbara Robertson, Tania Connolly.<\/p>\n<p>It was moved that the committee be elected for 2015-2016. &#8211; Joan McCracken\/Sheila Williams<\/p>\n<p>9. General Business<\/p>\n<p>No general business was raised.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The meeting closed at 7.27 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRIENDS OF THE DOROTHY NEAL WHITE COLLECTION ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2015 MINUTES Tiakiwai Conference Centre,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dnwfriends.nzl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dnwfriends.nzl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dnwfriends.nzl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dnwfriends.nzl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dnwfriends.nzl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dnwfriends.nzl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011,"href":"https:\/\/dnwfriends.nzl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions\/1011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dnwfriends.nzl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dnwfriends.nzl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dnwfriends.nzl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}