Committee on Committees and Interest Groups Report

 

One of the goals of the Executive during this reporting period was to work with Interest Groups to improve support and raise the profile of Interest Groups.  Unlike many other library associations, APLA does not charge additional fees for membership in its Interest Groups. 

 

As chair of the Committee on Committees and Interest Groups I surveyed Interest Group Conveners to obtain their feedback and I reported those results to the Executive. The Executive voted to allocate $400.00 to support Interest Group initiatives and since that time Interest Group Conveners have come forward with a number of new projects.

 

Leigh Anne Gagnier has taken on the role of convener for the New Librarians and Information Professionals Interest Group and Denyse Rodrigues is the new convener of the Continuing Education Interest Group. I would like to thank Denise Corey-Fancy and Heather Berringer for their work with these interest groups in the past. 

 

 

I have been unable to recruit conveners for the Newspaper Interest Group or the Access to Government Information Interest Group and no members have come forward to take on the task of convener for these groups. I would recommend to the Executive and the APLA membership that these interest groups, Newspapers and Access to Government Information be dissolved. This does not preclude the membership from reconstituting these or other groups in the future should there be sufficient interest. I would like to thank the Interest Group Conveners for their contributions to the Association.