(via Holly Robinson, American Library Association)<\/p>\n
ALA President Patty Wong and ALA President-Elect Lessa Kanani’opua Pelayo-Lozada are pleased to announce a call for volunteers for the newly formed ALA Code of Conduct Committee and expanded Policy Monitoring Committee and Council Orientation Committee, as\u00a0by ALA Council at the 2021 Annual Conference.\u00a0All interested volunteers should submit an interest form<\/a> no later than\u00a0Saturday,\u00a0July 31<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Committee terms will begin\u00a0immediately\u00a0for both one and two-year terms.<\/p>\n The new Code of Conduct Committee Membership will consist of seven (7) members, including Co-Chairs appointed annually.<\/strong><\/p>\n ALA is currently seeking all 7 members (including Co-Chairs) for the initial term.<\/p>\n The new Code of Conduct Committee’s charge is to administer and apply the ALA Online Code of Conduct. This committee will provide transparent, consistent, and context-sensitive accountability to ensure mutual respect and community safety.<\/p>\n The Council Orientation Committee’s membership will expand to 10 members, including Chair.<\/strong><\/p>\n ALA is currently seeking 4 new members.<\/p>\n The Council Orientation Committee’s charge is\u00a0to develop and carry out a mentoring and orientation program for new and continuing councilors and schedule and organize Council Forums to be held in conjunction with Council Sessions, and to select and arrange training for Council Forum Facilitators.<\/p>\n The Policy Monitoring Committee’s membership will expand to 10 members, including Chair.<\/strong><\/p>\n ALA is currently seeking 8 new members.<\/p>\n The Policy Monitoring Committee’s charge is to monitor the accurate documentation and codification of ALA policy, as determined by formal action of council; to prepare additions or changes in the ALA policy manual following each Annual Conference and Midwinter Meeting\u00a0as may be required by motions and resolutions adopted by council; and\u00a0to review and advise on all unit organization policies to ensure that they are in compliance with council approved association-wide policies.<\/p>\n For more information on each committee’s composition and responsibilities, go here<\/a>.\u00a0Please reach out to Holly Robison, Governance Associate, at\u00a0hrobison@ala.org<\/a>\u00a0with any questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (via Holly Robinson, American Library Association) ALA President Patty Wong and ALA President-Elect Lessa Kanani’opua Pelayo-Lozada are pleased to announce a call for volunteers for the newly formed ALA Code of Conduct Committee and expanded Policy Monitoring Committee and Council Orientation Committee, as\u00a0by ALA Council at the 2021 Annual Conference.\u00a0All interested volunteers should submit an…<\/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":[53,5,6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-library-association","category-calls-and-requests","category-committees-non-hsli","category-library-associations-non-hsli"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13753","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=13753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}