Annual Meeting Highlights 2009

COMMITTEE: Research and Statistics<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

SECTION: RSS

CHAIRPERSON: Liane Luckman

DATES: 7/11/09

EMAIL: lluckman@txstate.edu

MEMBERS PRESENT: Anne Moore, Qiana Johnson, Ellen Safley, Cynthia Johnson (new member)

MEMBERS ABSENT:

VISITORS: Annie Epperson

OBJECTIVES: -Organize the 15th Reference Research Forum @ Annual 2009 -Compile the 2008 Reference Research Review

SUMMARY: The committee effectively planned and hosted the 15th Reference Research Forum with 128 attendees. We compiled the 2008 Reference Research Review. Next: the 16th RRF and the 2009 Reference Research Review.

EVALUATION: We did a good job, even though we had low conference attendance.

PROBLEMS: Low conference attendance.

RECOMMENDATIONS: This committee should be allowed to do its work virtually, with no mandatory meeting at Midwinter