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ALA Council III
The last day is the saddest. All the signs are gone. There are ALA Councilors here, some real governance geeks, and staff. It is almost like the rest never happened.
We begin at 8 am. Council III begins with Memorials and Tributes. Memorials are offered for those who have died since Annual. Tributes are for those [...]
ALA Council II
Tuesday mornings in the Convention Center are always sad. We come to the Convention Center to find that all the registration booths are coming down. Signs are gone, exhibits closed, ALA Store gone. I always find it somewhat depressing.
Today’s agenda started (after the business items) with the report from Policy Monitoring Committee . Many of [...]
PLA Board II – Part 2
Ethics, Joanne Pinder reported on the proposed changes in the ALA Code of Ethics.
Clara Bohrer reported on the finances of PLA. Fund balance was about $25,000 lower than expected partly because the Spring Symposium was not as successful as budgeted. The other reason is a printing cost which will be recovered when the published book [...]
PLA Board I
I wanted to try to do this from the Board meeting, but had some technical troubles. Therefore there will be some well ex post facto posts on Board actions.
The initial meeting began with a broad ranging discussion of creating a new structure for PLA. This process has been underway for more than a year. I [...]
ALA Presidential Candidates Forum
About 100 people are here listening to the candidates debate. First to speak is my friend (and the candidate I support) Camila Alire. Her theme is “Vision, Vitality, and Voice.”
Among other proposals is for an “At Home ALA Legislative Day” to have coordinated visits to legislators while they are home.
Good salaries and better salaries are [...]
ALA Council I – Resolution on Member Access to Electronic Lists
Melora Ranney Norman wrote and presented a resolution on access to ALA lists. The problem is that ALA has a policy on open meetings where any member may attend any open meeting. (Those which are closed are awards and those parts of meetings dealing with personal/institution information like accreditation and nominations.) However, it recently came [...]
ALA Council I
by Michael Golrick
The first official Council meeting has begun. Of course we start with a whole lot of housekeeping items. There have been six people nominated to run for the ALA Executive Board. Nominations from the floor include Joseph Egan (Maryland Chapter Councilor) since there were no Chapter Councilors nominated.
To run for the Executive [...]
ALA Council/Board/Membership Information Session
by Michael Golrick
It is Sunday morning, and after having had some trouble logging in, I am now ready to blog. Later today there will be post on yesterday’s PLA Board meeting. Now, it is Sunday and the “Info Session” is going on. This session is reports on various topics, some required each time.
The first item [...]
