I just arrived in Philadelphia for the 2008 ALA Midwinter Conference. While I’m here, I’ll be keeping you up to date on what’s going on with the ALSC Board, and any other ALSC news that I think might be of interest to members.<\/p>\n
I haven’t seen any other ALSC members around yet — first sightings are always fun, so I’ll keep you posted. I’m here earlier than most people to attend the ALSC Executive Committee meeting tomorrow afternoon. For those of you not familiar with ALSC governance, our Executive Committee is made up of the President (Jane Marino); Vice President\/President-Elect (Pat Scales); immediate Past President (yours truly, KT Horning); Councilor (Linda Perkins); Fiscal Officer (Sue Ziegler); and Executive Director (Diane Foote). We always meet for a couple of hours on Thursday afternoon at the beginning of conference.<\/p>\n
Throughout the year, the Executive Committee deals with the day-to-day things that come up that need attention and, sometimes, a quick decision, but that don’t require consideration from the full Board. At our meeting tomorrow, we’ll touch base on some of the issues or concerns that have come up since we last met, and we’ll decide what needs to be referred to the full Board at one of their three Midwinter meetings. The E. C. meeting helps us to clarify what these issues are and what sort of questions we need to raise for Board discussion. This helps to streamline the Board meetings a bit.<\/p>\n
If you’re going to be attending the Midwinter Conference, I encourage you to sit in on at least part of one of our Board meetings. We’ll be meeting on Saturday, Jan 12, 2:00-5:30; Monday, Jan 14, 2:00-5:30; and Tuesday, Jan 15, 2:00-5:30. The first two meetings will take place in the Convention Center, Room 303A and the third meeting right next door in Room 303B. Members might be particularly interested in the Board discussion at the beginning of Session 1 (Sat 2:00 pm) when we’ll be discussing how ALSC can respond to competition from other divisions, and in the discussion at the beginning of Session 2 (Mon, 2:00 pm) when we’ll have a report from the Awards Eligibility Task Force. Both of these discussions are slated to for last an hour.<\/p>\n
If you can’t get to the meetings, you can read about some of the highlights right here on the ALSC blog.<\/p>\n
–KT Horning, ALSC Past President<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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