ALA Midwinter Council/Exec Bd/Membership Info Session

ALA Council / Executive Board / Membership Information SessionJanuary 9, 2011

Information session only; no business will take place at this meeting.

For details on documents and meeting minutes, please see the ALA Council website: http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/governance/council/index.cfm

Budget Analysis and Review Committee (BARC), Mario Gonzales, Chair
CD #33; CD #32Rev; CD #43Rev
Revenue is down but so are expenses. See Council documents for further breakdown.

ALA Endowment Trustees Report, Daniel J. Bradbury, Chair
CD #16.0; ET #6.1; EBD #13.1
2010 was a year of slow recovery.

ALA President’s Report, Roberta A. Stevens
CD #21
Updates on Task Forces.

Presidential initiatives:
Our Authors, Our Advocates
Video & audio PSAs. Virtual postcard to libraries on Jan. 11th.
www.OurAuthorsOurAdvocates.org

I Love Libraries website has over 400 quotations about libraries. Use these in your advocacy efforts. Cultivating your local notables toolkit also available.

Frontline Fundraising toolkit will launch online in February.

I Love My Libraries contest – public and school libraries video contest. See website for details.

ALA President-Elect, Molly Raphael
CD #29

Initiatives:
Advocacy – to help libraries across the country mobilize their constituents.

Diversity – Spectrum Presidential Initiative; Work on how we link our diversity work with our leadership development work

ALA Executive Director, Keith Michael Fiels
CD #23; CD #23.1 Midwinter Whitepaper

Attendance as of Saturday 7,194; slightly lower than Boston to-date: Total 9,600.

Membership: For the first time since recession, we have seen slight dip in membership. Currently down about 2% at 61,500. Organizational membership slowly decreasing.

Diversity Recruitment IMLS grants – funding 35 recruiters

Connect with your Kids campaign – formal partnership with Lifetime television network and a variety of parent-oriented magazines published by Scholastic to encourage parent-child library use

I Love My Libraries – Carnegie organization is still interested in funding another 5 year grant

Stonewall Children’s and Young Adult Book Awards – first year; great addition to other awards given at Midwinter

Midwinter Whitepaper – send us suggestions on how Midwinter can be more effectively deployed to meet the needs of attendees, libraries and the Association.

New Strategic Plan - actively working on new plan; focusing now on Transforming Libraries Goal and Member Engagement Goal