Re: [AISdiscuss] a few topics for the Board Meeting

[bfilardi@comcast.net]

okay!  this is exactly why I brought up this topic NOW!  I am open to doing it any way the Board decides, and I need that decision to be made at the Spring Board Meeting.  Bruce
> I would like to correct a couple of statements. It is 
> not a popular idea to change the symposium. The board 
> meeting in the fall did not authorize or promote such 
> a change. Indeed, the report I gave of the survey of 
> members attending the convention noted that a large 
> number of people wrote in on the questionnaire that 
> although they liked the bulletin they would like to 
> see less, not more, business in it and have more 
> articles. Placing the symposium question into the 
> bulletin would go against what the vast majority of 
> members have been saying. It is believed by many that 
> one of the reasons why we loose so many new members is 
> that the bulletin is not offering enough in the way of 
> articles and that too much that is in it is AIS 
> business and that turns off new members. There are 
> several vocal older members who do not wish to loose 
> the archive that the bulletin represents. The thought 
> has been to possibly remove much of this material to a 
> supplement that would still be archival but would 
> allow the bulletin to be more appealing especially to 
> new members. Adding yet another degree of business to 
> the pages of the journals seems like defeating the 
> strategy for gaining membership while barely saving 
> any money. Considering the cost of the pages in the 
> bulletin it may actually be more expensive. I pity the 
> person recording the symposium ballets if we do this 
> because I know how badly people write numbers. 
> 
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