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Submitted by Robert Pruter

The year of 2004 saw a reorganization of NIDL, redirecting the organization into a more informal structure.

Robert Pruter of Lewis University was the Coordinator and Lynne Smith of the Northern Illinois University Law School was the Secretary.

The NIDL group met twice during the year: May 14 and November 4, both at the Oak Park Public Library.

The Spring Meeting

The spring meeting was focused on reorganization of NIDL.

Robert Pruter opened up the discussion with a summary of the current status of NIDL, starting with how it lost its leadership—that both the Coordinator and Secretary for the year 2003-2004 had left their respective institutions, and that a new secretary (Lynne Smith) and new coordinator (Robert Pruter) were elected from the floor in a special election. He also mentioned that the fall meeting had been poorly attended, that members sending minutes and corrections sent to the NIDL website were not getting a response.

The group decided that NIDL should retrench and become a more casual organization. The members decided to do the following:

1. To elect two co-coordinators to reorganize NIDL and to arrange future meetings. Elected as co-coordinators were Robert Pruter of Lewis University and Aimee Quinn of UIC. No secretary was elected.

2. Develop NIDL as a more casual organization by directing the new co-coordinators to write a new Constitution and bylaws.

3. Make the annual fall meeting, more of a dinner meeting, which would meet each year at the Oak Park Public Library. RoseAnn Vonesh said agreed to host each fall meeting. The plan was set to meet at 4:00 PM, have a round-table discussion, and then retire to a local restaurant. The next meeting was set for November 4, 2004.

Also at the spring meeting:

Mike Ragen and Joe Natale gave a talk about the Illinois State Library and urged NIDL members to attend the annual State Library spring meeting next year, noting the benefit of keeping abreast of latest developments in the depository program in Illinois.

John Shuler gave a presentation on the decisions and discussions that transpired at the Federal Government Documents Meeting at St. Louis that took place during April 18-20, 2004. Shuler summarized some of the major decisions that were made at the meeting—the new 100 percent digitalization policy and the legacy digitalization project. He pointed out that these decisions have huge implications to the Depository System, and spelled out what these were.

The Fall Meeting

NIDL Fall 2004 Meeting was held on November 4, 2004, at the Oak Park Public Library. In keeping with the more casual approach to NIDL, the meeting convened at 4:00 PM, with members conducting a round robin discussion before retiring to a local restaurant for casual conversation.