I have started to add the numbers to Council Documents.

Let me take a moment to talk about them. Every document delivered to Council and the Executive Board gets a number. For Council, these are CD, and for the Executive Board they are EBD. They are then followed by a number. If there is a subsequent document or revision, then the number is followed by a decimal point.

For Council there are some standards. The Agendas are always “8″ and the Financial Reports are part of the 13 series.

The numbering system continues from Midwinter through Annual, and then starts over again. So it is also important to note the ALA Fiscal Year. They also often indicate if they are Midwinter or Annual meeting documents.

They are all available from the ALA Governance Office. Council Documents come from Lois Ann Gregory-Wood, and for this meeting, Executive Board Documents come from JoAnn Kempf.

Many of the Division Boards and ALA Committees use similar numbering systems.