Minutes for 15 November 2003 Meeting
Pleasant Hill Branch (APL), Austin, TX
Saturday, 9:30 a.m.

Agenda
1. Bienvenida/Introductions - Paola Ferate Soto (Sign-in sheet will be passed around)
2. Guest speaker - Emilio Zamora, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin. He has written on 20th-century Mexican labor history and for several years has been offering courses on archival sources for Mexican American/Latino history.
3. Approval of Meeting Minutes for 17 September 2003 - Adán Benavides
4. Financial Report - Gustavo Soto

Old Business
5. Hoyos - Holes discussion group - Paola Ferate-Soto
6. Quilt Project - Paola Ferate-Soto
7. Book Lists - Margo Gutiérrez
8. New Member's Packet - Jennifer Thomas
9. Día de los muertos event - Paola Ferate-Soto
10. Chapter speakers for the year - Margo Gutiérrez and Group Discussion
11. Membership form - Jennifer Thomas
New Business
12. Dues for 2004 - Paola Ferate-Soto
13. Tamales fund-raiser - Paola Ferate-Soto
14. Additional Discussion Points and Announcements

Minutes
In attendance: (9) Adán Benavides (UT Benson), Bob Cárdenas (APL), Anna Paola Ferate-Soto (APL), Irma Flores Manges (APL), Anita Fudell (APL), Elva Garza (APL), Maribel Garza (AISD, St. Elmo), Gustavo Soto (APL), Jennifer Thomas (APL).

1. Paola called the meeting to order at 9:30 a.m.
2. Dr. Emilio Zamora spoke regarding several issues about Mexican-American history. These included a historical evaluation of its place in twentieth-century history and the growing importance that the Latino community will have as it increases in demographic terms. His own work at the School of Information, UT Austin, includes teaching about the archival sources available in South Texas and northern Mexico. He takes students on field trips to these sources. He is presently involved in gaining support for an oral history project to include Hispanics who have served as representatives to the Texas legislature. He looks forward to partnering with libraries to preserve and maintain materials of and about the Texas Latino community.
3. Minutes for 17 September 2004 meeting approved as presented by Adán.
4. Gustavo reported the treasury balance and encouraged members to renew their memberships promptly.

Old Business

5. Paola gave an update on the final meeting of the Hoyos - Holes discussion group which met in October.
6. Paola gave an update on the Quilt Project noting its continuing success at several libraries.
7. Margo gave an update on creating annotated booklists appropriate for k-2 and k-3 on bilingual, Spanish, or English works with Latino themes. The contributors are Margo, Sarah, Josefina, and Paola.
8. Jennifer gave an update of new member's packets. Since the quotes were very high for professional printing, it was decided that packets would be made by Jennifer, supplies paid by the chapter, and some copying to be provided by APL.
9. Margo reported on possible speakers for the year, these to include a representative from LANIC and Jill Goldman who spent the summer as an intern in Oaxaca, Mexico.
10. Paola gave an update on the Día de los muertos event that was held at Cepeda Branch.
11. Jennifer noted the differences between the national membership form and our own and the resulting confusion about where to send the form by new members as well as by those who are renewing. All membership forms should be sent to the Treasurer of the local chapter who then forwards them to the national office.
12. Paola gave an update on the tamales fund-raiser.
13. There were no Additional Discussion Points and Announcements.

The meeting adjourned at 11:15 a.m.

Minutes respectfully submitted by Adán Benavides, 24 July 2004. Approved as amended.

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