President's Annual Report - 2003-2004

Objectives:

Work with the Program Committee and CE Committee to provide our members with professional growth opportunities with general meeting programming and courses for CE credit.
Evaluate the feasibility of obtaining a digital camera for MDMLG use.
Work on the proposal that MDMLG advise/aid members in seeking grant money.
Update the Presidential Binder. Submit previous year’s documents to the Archivist

Accomplishments:

Forwarded all meeting announcements to the Wayne State University student listserv, and to the Southwestern Ontario Health Libraries & Information Network listserv.
Presented the Brown Bag session on "Building Digital Libraries" at the MDMLG April 22 general meeting.
Supported the planning work with the Program and CE Committees.
Evaluated the feasibility of a digital camera for MDMLG. Decision approved by the board is that one-use cameras will be obtained and used by the communications committee for MDMLG meetings and functions. Pictures will be used on our web site and in the newsletter. A CD copy will be stored with the MDMLG archives.
A suggestion to have a Grants presentation included in the 2004-2005 schedule of programs has been submitted to the Program Committee.
The president’s manual has been maintained: copies of all of the 2003-2004 pertinent documents during the president’s tenure have been sent to the archivist. Duplicate copies have been inserted for use by the incoming President.

Respectfully submitted,

Toni Janik

Toni Janik,
President – MDMLG
June 11, 2004