(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL Past President)<\/p>\n
The Reaching Across Illinois Library System is looking for an employee or board member from a RAILS academic, public, school, or special library to fill a vacancy on the RAILS Board beginning in October 2017 and ending on June 30, 2019. Interested candidates should\u00a0fill out the nomination form<\/a>\u00a0on the RAILS website by\u00a0Friday, August 18<\/b>. The RAILS Board Executive Committee will meet to review all nominations and will recommend a candidate to the full board for approval.<\/p>\n This is your opportunity to play an active role in shaping the future of RAILS! The RAILS Board typically meets 11 times per year. Board members can attend meetings at one of several\u00a0videoconference locations<\/a>\u00a0located throughout the RAILS area and travel costs are reimbursed. See more information about\u00a0board member roles and responsibilities<\/a>. Questions? Contact\u00a0Mary Witt<\/a>, RAILS Communications Director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (via Gwen Gregory, IACRL Past President) The Reaching Across Illinois Library System is looking for an employee or board member from a RAILS academic, public, school, or special library to fill a vacancy on the RAILS Board beginning in October 2017 and ending on June 30, 2019. Interested candidates should\u00a0fill out the nomination form\u00a0on the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calls-and-requests","category-library-associations-non-hsli","category-library-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244","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=5244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}