Posts Tagged "ALAMidwinter2008"

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 [...]

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Let’ Talk About It: Love and Forgiveness

Saturday morning I attended a program put on by the ALA Public Programs Office on their new initative: grants to libraries to present scholar-led reading and discussion programs on the theme of love and forgiveness in public libraries across the country.
Like previous Let’s Discuss It programs, the Office has partnered with another organization, this time [...]

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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 [...]

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A Note on ALA Document Numbering

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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PLA Board II – Part 1

I missed the beginning of this meeting because it overlaps with a committee appointment I hold on the Membership Committee. So, I spent a half hour at AL Membership Committee before traipsing back to the Convention Center to the meeting.
I walked into the reports from the Clusters to the Board with the reactions to the [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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