[MCASIlaris] Fwd: IMPORTANT - Please read - Curtin Information Studies (CURTIS) Club AGM tonight

[CURTIS Curtin University]

A message for all CURTIS members, or interested LARIS students who would
like to become CURTIS members!!  Come have some food and fun with us
tonight at the Tav from 4.30pm where you can also join up!!

Memberships can also be taken retrospectively so if you are an online
student never fear!! You can participate in our AGM via Google Hangouts.
Email curtisperth at gmail.com for more information, or look us up on Facebook
where the link will be posted.

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Hello CURTIS members,

As you are all hopefully aware our Annual General Meeting (AGM) is
scheduled for tonight, Monday the 5th of November.  We have advised members
via email and invited members through a Facebook event and have had a very
discouraging response.  As current President of the club I would like to
take this opportunity to implore you all to take more of an interest in the
future of the Curtin Information Studies Club, as make no mistake – if we
do not get a quorum of ten current student members at the AGM, and two
further nominations for one of the committee roles of President, Vice
President, Secretary or Treasurer we will have to take the necessary
arrangements to dissolve the club.  This would be an absolute travesty as
CURTIS is so beneficial to students, and participation in the Committee has
helped so many past students gain traction in the workforce, contributing
to their success in obtaining employment in the industry.

The Guild has very strict guidelines to remain a Guild club, and the
Committee has worked hard this year to ensure we meet the minimum number of
student members to remain a Guild club.  *The only two hurdles left are
getting a quorum for our AGM, and filling two of the four Committee
positions.*

I understand life is busy, but if you are free tonight between 5.30pm and
6pm please consider coming to the Tav, or joining our Google Hangout
session using your phone, tablet, laptop or desktop computer.  If the half
hour is all you can spare, we understand, and would rather you attend the
AGM in person or online for half an hour than not come at all because you
can’t spare the whole evening.

The Committee will be there from 4.30pm, and our lovely guest speaker Chloe
Czerwiec, Senior Librarian (Copyright) at the University of Western
Australia will be sharing her experiences on participating within various
industry associations.  We also have a note from Havva Teede, last years
CURTIS President on how being involved in CURTIS helped her when job
seeking after graduation.  After our speakers, we will have a huge spread
of food and jugs of soft drink supplied by the Guild (one of the benefits
of being a Guild club), and other drinks can be purchased at the bar.
Between 6pm and 7pm we will be holding a mini quiz, complete with prizes
and we are hoping it will be a nice relaxing way to finish off the year for
our members.

Our club is only small, we only just make the minimum member numbers for
Guild clubs however the benefit of being involved in CURTIS is large.  Our
small club is part of industry leader collaborative groups, we liaise
closely with industry associations such as ALIA, RIMPA and ASA, and we
represent students on the LARIS Advisory Board, as well as being invited to
attend Curtin Student Advisory Committee meetings encompassing the broader
Curtin University future strategic direction.

Being so small, we cannot rely on others to keep the club running, if you
feel as I do, that the club is too beneficial to the LARIS student
experience to dissolve please attend the AGM and put your hand up for a
Committee position.  This is the only way we will be able to continue our
CURTIS journey!

I really really hope to see more of you tonight than the lovely six or so
people that have advised they will be attending via the Facebook event or
email, and also thank those of you who have given your apologies.  Without
your support we cannot survive as a Guild club, so please please please
attend if you are able.  We will be posting the Google Hangouts link on the
Facebook event and sending via email before the start of the AGM tomorrow
at 5.30pm.

Kind regards,

Jade Bryan
President
Curtin Information Studies (CURTIS) Club

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