Greetings ALSC Members: It’s your president here, letting you know about some exciting conversations we’re beginning, and asking for your contributions. Two small groups have been convened to look at some pressing issues close to our hearts: The Board Subcommittee on Strategic Plan Alignment is considering ALSC business, looking at our core goals and objectives and finding ways to attend to them virtually. The Scope of Attention Task Force is refining our Divisional definition of “children,” looking at both the terms (age vs. grade) and scope (babies? 14 year-olds? Where do we draw those lines?). In the coming weeks and months these groups will be looking to members (that’s you) for input, in a formal way. But now’s the time to start thinking and talking. I’ve laid everything out in more detail on ALA Connect. Head on over (http://connect.ala.org/), login, choose ALSC as a Division in the My ALA Groups drop down menu,…
Author: thom barthelmess
ALSC President, 2009-2010
Thom’s Message to ALSC
Judging by the activity in my inbox of late, many of you have heard that the ALSC Board has elected me as vice-president/president-elect of our division. The circumstances of my election are difficult, for all of us. Many of us knew Kate McClelland and Kathy Krasniewicz, and witnessed their industry and commitment first hand. Others never met them, but benefited from their considerable contributions to ALSC, all the same. Kate was a good friend, a great lady, and a formidable children’s librarian. She was on her way to being an exceptional ALSC president. Her dedication will serve as an example to me as I move to take up this mantle. Things are happening quickly for me. I did not run for this office, and did not have a stretch of time to prepare myself for the procedural or philosophical facets of its many responsibilities. Similarly, you didn’t have the opportunity…