WiLS Online/Telephone Conference Minutes—January 30, 2009

Participating: Kathy Boguszewski, Carol Brill, Carla Burmeister, Debbie Cardinal, Ane Carriveau, Phyllis Christensen, Sally Drew, Karen Grothe, Leanne Hansen, Mark Rozmarynowski, Patrick Wilkinson and Kathy Schneider.

Agenda: Wisconsin Heritage Online
The award of $25,000 from the Nicholas Family Foundation with a pledge of additional $201,930 caused the Board to reconsider a previous decision to discontinue financial support for WHO in 2009.

It was decided that WiLS will continue in a project management role for another year.
A motion was put forth by Boguszewski to have Schneider communicate this decision to the Foundation, with the knowledge that some Foundation funds would have to be used to cover added infrastructure costs to move to a new hosting site. The motion was seconded by Christensen. Carried.

Partnership Agreement with OCLC: Schneider spoke in favor of signing the agreement with some changes in language, and a commitment of $18,000 from OCLC for training session costs.
On a motion by Brill the Board authorized Schneider to finalize and sign a 1 year agreement with OCLC. Boguszewski seconded; the motion carried.

Schneider reminded Board members that the regularly scheduled meeting will take place on February 19 at 10:00 am.

Respectfully submitted,
Karen Grothe, Secretary

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