TASL Board meetings are open for attendance.

Jackie Chetzron, Chair, opened the TASL Board meeting with news of how busy TASL has been this year, especially since it is a legislative year. TASL brought about 25 programs to TLA. Also this year, we began a collaborative partnership with PTA. The award that came from that partnership will be an annual award.

For professional development opportunities for school librarians, we are looking at August 3 (tentative) for a Leadership Institute that will be co-sponsored by ProQuest to help cover some of the costs. ProQuest will also help sponsor an Advocacy Institute Preconference at TLA in San Antonio. These institutes will be 7 1/2 hours of content and are licensed through AASL.

All committees reported on the great work that they are doing. Here is a list of committees if you are unfamiliar with all of them:

Administrator of the Year -- Deborah Hall
Bylaws -- Carol Deviney
Laura Edwards TLA Conference Scholarship Stipend -- Megan Cooper
Legislative -- Jennifer Laboon
Membership -- Jane Eixmann
Nominations -- Jack Strawn
Private Schools -- Renee Chevallier
Resolutions -- Demetria Williams
Scholarship -- Linda Villareal
Texas Bluebonnet Award Task Force Report -- Sharon Amastae
Texas Bluebonnet Award Local Arrangements -- Kay McBride

Also, announced at the meeting is next year's conference theme: Filtering Chaos: From Information to Knowledge. The conference will be in San Antonio, April 14-17, 2010.