Category Archives: Membership

The Membership Committee processes applications, welcomes new members at CALL functions, and has responsibility for producing the annual CALL Membership Directory and updating it on a quarterly basis online.

Membership Committee Annual Report 2023-2024

The Committee Charge

The committee’s main charge is updating and management of the online directory, which replaced the print directory. This included eliminating duplicate accounts, standardizing firm and company names, and coordinating with the CALL Listserv admins to update the member emails.

CALL members must now contact Membership Committee members directly to make changes to their account in Neon after the initial creation of their account. This helps to maintain the accuracy and standardization of data.

The Committee Activity:

  • Update membership directory with member-submitted edits.
  • Provide list of current members for CALL Board meetings and to AALL for annual election.
  • Provide invoicing, as needed, for memberships and renewals.
  • Coordinate with Listserv admin to keep email list current.
  • Send membership renewal emails in May.
  • Annual review of current members and outreach to lapsed members.

Projects and Initiatives:

The following projects were begun in 2023, but need to be continued in the new year.

  • Review the Committee charge and submit edits to the Board.
  • Update the Committee “cookbook” of processes and procedures in Neon.
  • Obtain administrative access to the Listserv so that Membership Committee Chair can make requested edits to contact information.

Chair:

Jessie LeMar

Committee:

  • Janice Collins
  • Julie Pabarja
  • Amy Tomaszewski

CALL Membership Committee 2021-2022 Annual Report

The committee put into place some procedures that should prevent us from losing members during the renewal process.  CALL now has a renewal grace period so that those who have not renewed will not be placed on inactive status.  We also have renewal reminders on a set schedule in Neon.  Need the membership due email schedule, membership overdue email schedule, and grace period memorialized in the Handbook.  The Handbook or shared Neon documentation should also remind committee members that all dates on emails need to be updated and the sender changed from the current President to the incoming President/current Vice-President.   Continue reading CALL Membership Committee 2021-2022 Annual Report

New Member Profile: Julie Tedjeske Crane

Julie is the Faculty Scholarship and Educational Technology Librarian at Chicago-Kent.

I manage three full-time faculty support specialists, run the institutional repository, provide Blackboard assistance, and teach advanced Word skills and other technology-related topics.

Where did you grow up, and where else have you lived before coming to Chicago? Do you have a favorite among those places?

My favorite place among the places I have lived is Pittsburgh, where I lived most of my life. I went to college in Johnstown, Pa., and worked in New York City for a year. In addition, I spent a semester in London. Continue reading New Member Profile: Julie Tedjeske Crane

Member News

Here are some of the wonderful accomplishments, contributions, and activities that our fellow CALL members have been up to:

If you have any news you want to share, either about yourself or celebrating a colleague, please reach out to the CALL Bulletin Committee.

CALL Membership Committee 2018-2019 Annual Report

During the 2018-2019 year the Membership Committee published updates to the CALL Membership Directory in September 2018, November 2018, and December 2018.

Over this year the Membership Committee also assisted with updating the CALL Listserv email list and updated member information in Wild Apricot.

As per the 2019 Bylaws Amendment, the Committee removed the Associate member category from Wild Apricot prior to the start of the 2019-20 membership renewal period.