Background Reading for ALA Civics Class
I’m still putting together our first class materials (actually, @thearystocrat is doing the heaviest, but awesomest, lifting for some of it), so here are some background materials for you to go over in...
View ArticleWhy Do I Have to Join ALA to Be a Member of a Division?
I missed it in real-time, but the May 11th #libchat on Twitter included a question that asked the following: “Very few ALA members vote in ALA elections. What are some reasons for low turnout?” There...
View ArticleMembers Helping to Explain and Improve ALA
There are many members who try to help with the ALA Civics concept on their own, so I’m also going to try to highlight their work, too. Recently, two great examples of this type of initiative were...
View ArticleWhat’s with the Long Conference Planning Timeline?
Jenny Levine: Conference planning is a BHD (Big Hairy Deal) at ALA, with an emphasis on Big. Last year, I literally diagrammed out the whole process to try to get a handle on it in order to create a...
View ArticleHow GameRT Became Our Newest Round Table
I got a first-hand glance at some of the inner workings of ALA policy and procedure during the past six months as I helped shepherd GameRT to round table-hood, so I thought I’d share that experience...
View ArticleALA Happy Mutants rejoice – Library Boing Boing is coming!
I can no longer contain my happy mutant self – I can finally announce a new ALA member interest group called Library Boing Boing. It’s a new group full of awesome and win and triple rainbows (yeah,...
View ArticleMaking ALA Voting Easier
If you’ve been an active voter in ALA elections, you know that the ALA Governance Office made some changes last year to start making the whole process easier. For example, JoAnne Kempf in the ALA...
View ArticleThe Elusive ALA Event Management System (and Why We Have to Make This Process...
ALA’s Conference Services and ITTS staff have been working together to implement a new Event Management System that would handle everything from taking program proposals for ALA conferences to handling...
View ArticleAnti-harassment Policies and ALA Conferences
Three days before this year’s Annual Conference, I fielded a question Lisa Rabey tweeted to the Annual account asking if ALA has a code of conduct for its conferences. I verified with other staff that...
View ArticleOctober 2013 Snapshot for the ALA Board
In addition to meeting at the Midwinter and Annual conferences, the ALA Board meets twice a year at ALA Headquarters in Chicago, once in October after the final budget close (ALA’s fiscal year ends on...
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