(via Gwen Gregory, Northern Illinois University, on behalf of RAILS)<\/p>\n
For those living or working in the RAILS service area:<\/p>\n
RAILS invites nominations for the following positions on our Board: three public library trustees (to be filled by board members at RAILS public libraries) and two at-large representatives (to be filled by individuals representing any type of RAILS library–academic, public, school, or special).<\/p>\n
We are looking for candidates who reflect the diversity of the RAILS membership in terms of race, ethnicity, age, geographic location, staff position, and other factors Go here<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/p>\n Terms for all positions begin on July 1, 2021, and end on June 30, 2024.<\/p>\n View the RAILS Board Member Job Description<\/a>, then complete this nomination form<\/a>.\u00a0The deadline for nominations is 5:00 PM on Friday, March 26. Questions? Contact Mary Witt, RAILS Marketing and Communications Director, at mary.witt@railslibraries.info<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you want to see the RAILS Board in action, you can attend the RAILS Board Meeting on Friday, March 26<\/p>\n The RAILS Board meets on Friday, March 26, at 1:00 PM<\/strong>, via Zoom. See the agenda and supporting documents here<\/a>\u00a0when they become available. Please submit public comments in advance to Emily Fister, at emily.fister@railslibraries.info<\/a>, to be read aloud at the meeting.<\/p>\n Per the Open Meetings Act, anyone is able to attend the meeting via Zoom. However, we ask that non-participants watch the meeting via RAILS live stream<\/a> (http:\/\/live.railslibraries.info\/<\/a>). The meeting will also be recorded for future viewing on the RAILS YouTube page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (via Gwen Gregory, Northern Illinois University, on behalf of RAILS) For those living or working in the RAILS service area: RAILS invites nominations for the following positions on our Board: three public library trustees (to be filled by board members at RAILS public libraries) and two at-large representatives (to be filled by individuals representing any…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,18,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calls-and-requests","category-committees-non-hsli","category-library-associations-non-hsli","category-library-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}