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MITSFS Meeting Minutes

Friday, August 9, 2002




MITSFS meeting called to order, 1700 SST, Ed Keyes, President and Skinner, presiding. JFC is the Pseudo-Onseck.

Minutes read.

M: last week's minutes are erroneous. 3-0-0 +Spehn.

BING!

Committee Reports

Mobcomm: Gryphon books; need money in advance. We will further test the new regime.

BING!

Old Business

Inventory happened. New procedures were made- main part went quickly, rest too slow. JM said it was fast, but in wrong order and people were misallocated. "Next year should absolutely fly."

40000 volumes in 5 hours is "pretty damn amazing." (Ed)

JM is finishing dex update now, after checking membership sheets. Merge process is unnecessarily computationally expensive.

Algol.

BING!

New Business

Alum wants to donate about 1000 books, shipped from Ohio.

Upper Calgary SF collection- we're number 2? They want 300000 dollars to preserve the collection. LHSFS will probably win big if Ackerman dies and gives them his collection.

BING!

Future Business

Full schedule soon. "Usual" TIF method for R/O: less advance notice required for credit.

Prentice flakes, John ends the meeting with Romance.



Meeting adjourned, 1730 SST.




Respectfully submitted,
JFC, Pseudo-Onseck