Friday 7th October 2016 at Dewars’
Centre, Glover Street, Perth, PH2 0TH.
Present: Colin Orr, Kateri Wilson-Whalley, Rhona Clark, Duncan
Wright, Gail Colbron, Flora
Fisher, Catriona McGrath, Diane Scott, Kate Dove, Mandy Wilson, Irene Lumsden,
Alan Clark, Josie Crimp, Wendy Lyon, Gillian Gillespie, Donna Baird, Alison
Mundie, Iona McFarlane, Julie Hutton, Linda Anderson, Jan Dawson, David Amdurer.
Apologies: Elspeth
Scott, Frances Sinclair.
1) Minutes of last meeting and matters arising
The minutes of the last AGM were accepted
as an accurate record.
Proposed by Colin Orr. Seconded by Kateri
Wilson-Whalley.
2) Convenor’s Report: Rhona Clark
A vote of thanks was given to Carol Moug
for her service as Convenor.
3) Secretary’s Report:
Kateri Wilson-Whalley
Kateri reported that the membership was
down to 122 (this is reflecting the drop in school librarians from state school
and cuts to budgets). Information is being shared with the membership via the
blog - http://slascotland.blogspot.co.uk/.
4)
Treasurer’s Report: Colin Orr
Copies of the Statement of Accounts for the
year ending 31 March 2016 were circulated.
The statement showed a balance at bank of £738.45
Proposed by Rhona Clark. Seconded by Kateri Wilson-Whalley.
5)
Reports from SLA Executive Committee: Mandy Wilson
Mandy encouraged those present to stand for
election to the SLA Executive. Given the devolved nature of Scottish Education a
second member would be beneficial.
SLA is 80 this year and the membership can
expect a few opportunities to celebrate this. The latest publications were also
on show.
7)
Office Bearers and Committee:
New
members:
Iona McFarlane
Proposed
by Colin Orr, Seconded by Kateri Wilson-Whalley
Catriona McGrath
Proposed
by Mandy Wilson, Seconded by Rhona Clark
Irene Lumsden
Proposed
by Kateri Wilson-Whalley, Seconded by Duncan Wright
Jan Dawson
Proposed
by Mandy Wilson, Seconded by Rhona Clark
The Office
Bearers:
Convenor –
Rhona Clark
Proposed
by Duncan Wright, Seconded by Mandy Wilson
Vice
Convenor – Mandy Wilson
Proposed
by Linda Anderson, Seconded by Kateri Wilson-Whalley
Secretary
– Kateri Wilson-Whalley
Proposed
by Linda Anderson, Seconded by Rhona Clark
Treasurer
– Colin Orr
Proposed
by Mandy Wilson, Seconded by Gail
Colbron
9) Proposed
changes to committee meeting
It was unanimously agreed that the proposed
changes to committee meetings would proceed. Therefore from now on:
The SLA in
Scotland committee will conduct the majority of its business online with one
formal meeting per year in addition to the AGM.
To allow for the sharing of information,
skills and ideas we will instead have three local network groups:
North – Mandy Wilson (chair)
South East – Duncan Wright (chair)
South West – Rhona Clark (chair)
The leader of each of these local network groups will be elected to the
SLA in Scotland committee plus a convener, secretary, treasurer and the
committee will remain open to other interested members.
They will also hold office bearer responsibilities on the SLA(S)
committee
The SLA(S) committee formal annual meeting will rotate around each of
the local network groups locations.
We will be using email shots, the new blog
and twitter to keep members across Scotland informed. Email
lists will be generated from the information shared by SLA.
8)
AOCB
The next AGM was agreed to take place on
Friday 6th October 2017 in Perth.
There being no further business the meeting closed at 12.53pm
