Committee members: Joe Mitzenmacher (chair), Sally Baker, Debra Denslaw, Shari Duff, Lyonette Louis-Jacques, and Leslie Strauss.
This year’s Grants and Chapter Awards Committee was charged with selecting grant recipients based on established criteria for CALL members to attend professional meetings and selecting recipients for the chapter awards based on nominations from CALL colleagues. Continue reading CALL Grants and Chapter Awards Committee 2019-2020 Annual Report
The committee consisted of Carrie Port and Eugene Giudice (co-chairs), Mandy Lee, Mike McMillan, and Jill Meyer. Continue reading CALL Meetings Committee 2019-2020 Annual Report
During the 2019-2020 year, the major project of the CALL Membership Committee was managing the transfer of membership information as part of the transition in association management systems from Wild Apricot to NeonCRM.
Over the year, the Membership Committee also assisted with updating the CALL Listserv email list and updating member information in NeonCRM.
Committee members included Sarah Andeen and Mandy Lee (co-chairs), Sally Baker, Cary Hall, Sally Holterhoff, Lyonette Louis-Jacques, Jamie Sommer. Continue reading CALL Mentorship and Leadership Development Committee 2019-2020 Annual Report
The CALL Nominations and Elections Committee had a very successful year. We were able to find nominees for all of the open positions: Vice President/President-elect, Treasurer, and Director. We were probably a month behind last year’s schedule with our call for nominees, but this did not seem to affect the nomination process. Despite our good luck with a late call for nominations, I think future Nominations and Elections Committee chairs should let the call for nominations start early and go long. Continue reading CALL Nominations and Elections Committee 2019-2020 Annual Report
The committee was Chaired by Diana Koppang. The committee members were Julie Pabarja, Debbie Rusin, and Debra Denslaw and Sandy Qiu.
The Placement & Recruitment committee met twice during the 2019/2020 year. The committee pursued a number of initiatives to recruit new members to CALL and develop the Association’s outreach to students and new members. Nineteen jobs were posted to the CALL website and advertised on the CALL Listserv. Continue reading CALL Placement and Recruitment Committee 2019-2020 Annual Report
In 2019-2020, the CALL Public Relations Committee had the following members: Shari Berkowitz Duff, Debbie Ginsberg, Lyonette Louis-Jacques (Chair), Sharon Nelson, and Debbie Rusin. Jesse Bowman served as CALL Board Liaison. The PR Committee had an introductory meeting on September 5, 2019 via Zoom. The Chair met with the CALL Board on November 12, 2019, via conference call to speak about the Committee’s public relations-related plans for the upcoming year. During the year, the PR Committee promoted and announced CALL business meetings, CALL Chapter and AALL award winners, and other activities via social media – Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn., and supported the work of other CALL committees.
Continue reading CALL Public Relations Committee 2019-2020 Annual Report
The 2018-2019 CALL Archives Committee was comprised of Committee co-chairs Matt Timko and Brittany Adams, as well as Committee members Anne Danberg, Pat Sayre-McCoy, and Clanitra Stewart Nejdl. Board Member Annie Mentkowski served as liaison.
The main effort and accomplishment of the Committee for this year was relocating the Archives from Northern Illinois University, which is more than 60 miles away from CALL/ABA Headquarters, to a more centralized location in the city. Continue reading CALL Archives Committee 2018-2019 Annual Report
The CALL Bulletin has published 3 of the four 2018-2019 issues up to the writing of this report (Issues 249-251) with the Summer issue (252) to be published in September 2019. The committee for the most of the year included Emily Barney (co-editor), Clanitra Stewart Nejdl (co-editor), Matt Timko (co-editor), Emily Byrne, Annie Danberg, Debbie Ginsberg, Philip Johnson, and Sarah Reis. On May 2, 2019 Clanitra Stewart Nejdl took a position at Vanderbilt University, leaving the third co-editor position vacant for the remainder of 2018-2019. Continue reading CALL Bulletin Committee 2018-2019 Annual Report
The CALL Bylaws Committee had a successful year in 2018/2019, shepherding changes to the CALL bylaws to align them more closely with the bylaws of the parent AALL. The Committee was chaired by Eric Parker, and had Margaret Schilt, Therese Clark Arado, and Matt Timko as members. Continue reading CALL Bylaws Committee 2018-2019 Annual Report