Greetings Colleagues, I trust you're well. Highlights are detailed below. Board Chair Cynthia Henderson was an invited participant at the May 2,3 ALA Summit on the Future of Libraries held at the Library of Congress. Founding Board Chair Loretta Parham was also an invited participant. Participants were challenged to imagine a library of the future. The Summit is a kickoff to the planned Center for the Future of Libraries to be established by the ALA this summer. The Summit report is attached to this e-mail. Shatiqua Mosby-Wilson, Southern University New Orleans, accepted Chair Henderson's Board appointment to serve a balance-of-term At-Large position ending June 2016. The Board acknowledged Kate Nevins' 20th anniversary at LYRASIS, her role in the creation of the HBCU Library Alliance, and her continued support of Alliance activities. Cynthia Henderson has been elected Chair of the LYRASIS Trustee Board. Her term will begin this August and end July 2015. Financials Eighty-two members remitted FY14 dues. The FY 15 budget is under development. Expanding Library Support for Faculty Research The library survey was distributed to seventy-five institutions and returned from seventy-one institutions. Of the seventy-one institutions, forty-nine indicated research in their mission. The faculty survey was distributed to those forty-nine institutions, returning 340 responses. Next steps are data clean-up and report writing. 2014 Membership Meeting The 6th Biennial meeting is scheduled Sunday through Tuesday, October 26-28 at the Hilton Garden Inn Atlanta Downtown. "Transforming Libraries for the 21st Century and Beyond: Sustaining the HBCU Library Alliance" is the meeting's theme. Loretta Parham is Planning Committee Chair. Registration numbers are low; thirty individuals representing twenty-five institutions have registered for the meeting, but should improve after July. The Board will assist with follow-up calls to members not yet registered. Vendor support has been confirmed for the Sunday reception, Monday breakfast and Monday lunch. Registration link: http://www.hbculibraries.org/html/2014meeting-form.html Decade of Investment support: www.hbculibraries,org<http://www.hbculibraries,org>, click on the PayPal link to make your investment Wayne State University "Increasing Diversity of Librarians" The HBCU Library Alliance is partnering with Wayne State University (MI) on a 2013 Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program Grant for the project, "Increasing Diversity of Librarians." The project goals are to recruit, mentor, and deliver an online MLIS degree to 10 students from underrepresented groups in order to achieve greater diversity among practicing library professionals. More than seventy persons have applied to the program. The team will narrow the finalists down to no more than twenty depending on the quality of the applications. Finalist interviews are scheduled on Monday, June 23, 2014 from 10-4pm via Adobe Connect. Emory Center for Digital Scholarship/HBCU Library Alliance Summer Institute The Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) invited our participation in a week-long workshop. Board Chair Henderson, Past Chair Fayoyin, Vice-Chair Henderson and I met with ECDS colleagues Allen Tullos, Wayne Morse and Emory's University Librarian Yolanda Cooper on April 18th. The workshop is scheduled for Sunday, June 15th through Friday, June 20th in Atlanta at the ECDS and will focus on acquiring technical skills for building select digital projects. Funds from an ECDS Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant will cover the costs associated with the workshop, including lodging, meals, materials and supplies. The following institutions will participate in the training: 1. Atlanta University Center Woodruff Library (GA) 2. Bowie State University (MD) 3. Claflin University (SC) 4. Delaware State University 5. Dillard University (LA) 6. Fisk University (TN) 7. Fort Valley State University (GA) 8. Hinds Community College (MS) 9. Johnson C. Smith University (NC) 10. Kentucky State University 11. Mississippi Valley State University 12. North Carolina A&T State University 13. Oakwood University (AL) 14. Philander Smith University (AR) 15. Prairie View A&M University (TX) 16. Savannah State University (GA) 17. Tennessee State University 18. Tuskegee University (AL) 19. University of Maryland Eastern Shore Concluding Comments Thanks to everyone for their continued support of the HBCU Library Alliance. Contact me directly if you have questions or need additional information. Respectfully, Sandra SANDRA M. PHOENIX Executive Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> 800-999-8558, ext. 4820 404-702-5854 Skype: sandra.phoenix1 1438 West Peachtree NW Suite 200 Atlanta,GA 30309 Toll Free: 1.800.999.8558 (LYRASIS) Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org<http://www.lyrasis.org/> Honor the ancestors, honor the children. Register now http://www.hbculibraries.org/html/2014meeting-form.html for the October 26-28, 2014 HBCU Library Alliance 6th Membership Meeting in Atlanta GA!