The mission of the New Members Round Table (NMRT) is to help those who have been association members less than ten years become actively involved in the association and the profession.
Learn more about NMRT on the ALA website.
The purpose of the Communications Committee is to solicit and produce content for the NMRT Blog (http://www.nmrt.ala.org/notes/).
The Communications Committee originated as the Footnotes Committee. Footnotes began publication in 1971 and was published quarterly until January 2016. It succeeded Newsnotes (1966-1971) as the official newsletter for NMRT (then JMRT). The added responsibility of producing a member news column was added due to the May 2009 Disbanding of the Membership Relations Committee. In January of 2016, the Footnotes newsletter was retired in place of the NMRT blog, NMRT Notes (http://www.nmrt.ala.org/notes/) in order to enable more timely access to articles by NMRT members.
Gather information and articles for the NMRT Notes.
Prepare member news articles (responsibility added due to disbanding of the Membership Relations Committee).
Submit at least one article per month for publication to the NMRT Notes.
Notify members of the Executive Board, including all committee chairs and liaisons, of the deadlines for information with a copy in writing to remind them.
Type and edit the copy for use in each issue.
Email listservs to solicit articles for the blog. If no articles are submitted, one member of the committee a month will be assigned with producing content for NMRT Notes.
Create and upload web files to ALA Connect for editing.
Communicate with the NMRT Secretary to put content on NMRT Notes for online distribution.
Chair (one year term)
Committee members (appointed at NMRT President's discretion)
Committee appointments are Annual to Annual
Member Services Director
NMRT President
NMRT Director for Publications & PR
NMRT Treasurer
NMRT Membership
NMRT Vice-President
NMRT Staff Liaisons
NMRT Committee chairs and liaisons
The Communications Committee gathers and writes at least one article per month for NMRT Notes (http://www.nmrt.ala.org/notes/).
Throughout the committee’s term, committee members are expected to produce at least one article per month for publication on NMRT Notes. These articles can be written by committee members or by non-committee members. The articles are solicited by members of the committee through calls to the NMRT listserv and other means.
Chair introduces themselves to the committee. Brainstorm with committee on topics and issues that could be written about during the upcoming year.
Assign committee members to be in charge of producing content for a particular month if no articles are submitted from non-committee members.
Send notice to NMRT-L soliciting stories; prepare articles from committee members.
By the end of the month, submit at least one article to the NMRT Secretary for publication on the NMRT Blog.
By the end of each month, submit at least one article to the NMRT Secretary for publication on NMRT Notes.
Committee planning report due; upload to ALA Connect (September).
Committee progress report due; upload in ALA Connect (February).
Annual conference - Annual report due.
Last Reviewed: March 2014; Last Revised January 2017