All:
Hope everyone is having a good week so far.
Yesterday (Tuesday), I represented Chapters Council at the ALA Chapter Relations Committee meeting. For those of you not familiar with the Chapter Relations Committee, here is more information on its mission: ALA Chapter Relations Committee (CRC). While I will share the minutes with Chapters Council when the Committee releases those, I did want to pose a couple of follow-up questions relevant to Chapters Council.
- Especially on legislative matters of interest to academic and research libraries, do you believe your state or regional ALA affiliate represents those perspectives fairly, compared to legislative concerns from other types of libraries?
- As a related question, if your ACRL chapter is actually incorporated into a state or regional ALA affiliate, do you think that helps give academic and research libraries a stronger voice within the ALA affiliate?
These questions are not part of any formal inquiry on behalf of the ALA or ACRL leadership, just an opportunity for Chapters Council members to share their own chapters' insights and experiences. If you have any input on either of these questions, please feel free to share it on this ALA Connect space.
Thank you very much.
Eric Edwards
2023-24 ACRL Chapters Council Chair
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Eric Edwards
Interlibrary Loan Librarian
Illinois State Library
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