Re: Loberg Questions on AIS Library exhibits

[MORRISJE1@aol.com]

In a message dated 11/30/2009 12:25:45 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
aistreas@earthlink.net writes:

I think  this should be scheduled and done as soon as possible.  This is 
another  service that AIS provides that members don't know we have...

Perfect  addition to the website.  Jill



Jill,
 
And who is going to do it?  Is the AIS volunteer Librarian even aware  of 
this AIS Discuss commentary on Library inventory?  Does the AIS  President 
request action of the Librarian and Electronic Services & Website  chairman 
(with informational copies to the Board) or do we continue talking and  
talking without any real action to get anything done?  People like Bob  Pries and 
Kitty Loberg have great ideas that need refining and action.  AIS  is w-a-y 
behind the power curve in taking action rather than talking things to  
death.  I was at least encouraged at the Fall Board meeting that we  the Board 
have awakened to the fact that we can't continue doing business as is  or we 
will go broke -- within three years according to Bob but certainly very  soon 
if we don't do something.  I felt that our  Board meeting was the most 
productive in the five years (10 meetings) I have  been on the Board.  Lots of 
changes, I just hope we can recover in  time.  I think we can and it is 
imperative that we try hard and  smart!
 
As an affiliate president I did receive Roy's letter yesterday about fixing 
 the Exhibition Committee fiasco (Has AIS recovered the Exhibition supplies 
 yet???).  That letter will be read this weekend to three affiliates to  
which I belong.  As an impatient Board member I had hoped that in this  
Christmas season of giving that I could ask these affiliates to donate to AIS to  
help offset our $14,000 deficit budget.  But some AIS executive direction  
is needed first.  I know I can deliver around $2,000 in donations but this  
is a one-time quick fix.  We need a long range solution.  Now I sound  like 
Keith Keppel.  We never discussed his 15 March 1997 memo on Cost  Reduction 
and Revenue Sharing that was in our packet of "information" and I just  
discovered it.  He was and is right on when he said, "I find it far  preferable 
playing doctor, examining an ailing patient than coroner,  exhuming a dead 
body." 
 
Jim Morris   
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