Tiakiwai Conference Centre, Natioanl Library of New Zealand, Wellington 6:00pm, Tuesday 21 May 2013<\/p>\n
CHAIR: Joan McCracken MINUTES: Lynne Jackett<\/p>\n
MINUTES<\/strong> Apologies:<\/strong> Emma MacDonald, Bill Macnaught, Mary Atwool, Susan Price, David Retter, Mary Bodmin, Arthur and Bernice Olsen.<\/p>\n 1. The Minutes of the Annual General Meeting 2012 were circulated and accepted – Barbara Murison \/ Trevor Mowbray<\/p>\n 2. Matters arising<\/b> 3. President\u2019s report<\/b><\/p>\n Joan McCracken circulated and spoke to the President\u2019s Report 2012-2013, in Emma MacDonald\u2019s absence. She highlighted activities held during the year and the publication of two newsletters.<\/p>\n 4. Matters arising from the President\u2019s Report<\/b><\/p>\n Joan McCracken \/ Barbara Murison<\/i><\/p>\n 5.Treasurer\u2019s Financial Report<\/b><\/p>\n Janet Blake presented the Financial Report for 2012-2013. She noted that the Friends are in a good financial position and the cheque account would soon be boosted by incoming membership fees and the transfer of interest from the Term Deposit and Fixed Term Investment and the capital will be reinvested in further term investments.<\/p>\n Matters arising from the Treasurer\u2019s Report<\/b><\/p>\n Joan McCracken noted that the Friends have joined the Wellington Region Heritage Promotion Council. Janet Horncy noted that this could be a means of promoting both the Society and the collections.<\/p>\n Janet Blake \/ Carrick Lewis<\/i>; accounts approved by acclamation<\/p>\n 6. Friends of the Dorothy Neal White Collection Research Grant<\/b><\/p>\n Information and application forms have been distributed to tertiary education and children\u2019s literature organisations. Mary Skarott reported that there had been several indications of interest. Applications close at the end of May and it is anticipated that an award will be made.<\/p>\n Joan McCracken thanked Lynne Jackett for the preparatory work and Mary Skarott for distributing the documents.<\/p>\n 7. Friends of the Dorothy Neal White Collection website report<\/b><\/p>\n The website has been maintained up to date, but no new features were added last year. In the forthcoming year, the web manager will take the opportunity to rethink and refresh the site.<\/p>\n 8. Election of Officers<\/b> Carrick Lewis \/ Sheila <\/i>; accounts approved by acclamation<\/p>\n As an interim measure, until a President is nominated, the three National Library staff members will share the administrative responsibilities of the President (Joan McCracken to chair meetings , Mary Skarott and Corinna Gordon to prepare agendas and minutes). As it would be inappropriate for a staff member to undertake an advocacy role, Janet Blake has agreed to accept that responsibility.<\/p>\n The following officers and committee members were re-elected unanimously, by acclaim:<\/b> General Business<\/b><\/p>\n The meeting closed at 6:45 pm<\/i><\/p>\n The AGM was followed by Chris Szekely (Chief Librarian Alexander Turnbull Library) talking about the genesis of his award-winning children\u2019s book Rahui and his soon to be published Swim.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FRIENDS OF THE DOROTHY NEAL WHITE COLLECTION ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2013 MINUTES Tiakiwai Conference Centre,…<\/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\/845"}],"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=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dnwfriends.nzl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":885,"href":"https:\/\/dnwfriends.nzl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dnwfriends.nzl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dnwfriends.nzl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dnwfriends.nzl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTwenty-three members attended the AGM
\nLast year’s minutes Minutes of the 2012 meeting)<\/a>
\n2014 Minutes<\/a><\/p>\n
\nFinding a way to increase membership numbers.<\/p>\n\n
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\nJoan McCracken noted that there are some significant gaps in office holders, following the death of the Patron, Margaret Mahy, and the resignation of the President and three other committee members.
\nNominees for Patron should be identified by the committee and presented to a general meeting.<\/p>\n
\nTreasurer: Janet Blake
\nMembership Secretary: Trevor Mowbray
\nNewsletter: Joan McCracken
\nResearch Librarian Children\u2019s Literature: Mary Skarott
\nCommittee: Audrey Cooper, Barbrara Robertson, Corinna Gordon; and Tania Connelly was welcomed back to the committee.<\/p>\n\n
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