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If you attended ALAAC22 in person, please test yourself for COVID

Posted By Jessamyn West Jun 29, 2022 07:52 PM
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For people who may not be as Extremely Online as I am, I wanted to pass along that there have been reports of people getting home from ALA and testing positive for COVID. For your own safety and the safety of the people in your home and your workplace you'll want to test yourself when you get home and ...

RE: Saturday evening forum notes

Posted By Jessamyn West Jun 26, 2022 10:15 PM
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Thanks for these notes Rhonda, and thanks for the policy citation Tara. I can only share what I was told by ALA Governance which is "if you are not registered for the ALA Annual Conference (either in person or digital experience), you cannot participate in the AC Council sessions." and this is despite ...

RE: Registering for Council meetings via the Conference scheduler

Posted By Jessamyn West Jun 16, 2022 02:29 PM
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> Clarification on this would be great, because it sounds like practice has been overriding policy. This is my understanding. And I think there have been attempts to bring practice more in line with policy but it's also my understanding that the policies haven't officially changed yet; we get to determine ...

RE: Registering for Council meetings via the Conference scheduler

Posted By Jessamyn West Jun 16, 2022 11:31 AM
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I agree with this strongly. It is a new change that registration is required to attend Council meetings and, if I am reading Council documents correctly, that change still needs to be approved by Council. Please someone correct me if I am wrong. I can understand that there are organizational reasons ...

RE: 2022 Annual Conference Draft Agendas

Posted By Jessamyn West Jun 12, 2022 10:32 PM
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Looks like the Council Fora links are in the scheduler if you click through to the event. I've put them here. Forum I Forum II Forum III ------------------------------ Jessamyn West Chapter Councilor - Vermont she/her ------------------------------

RE: Proposed Resolution on ALA Council Forum

Posted By Jessamyn West May 25, 2022 09:29 PM
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Thanks for this Ann, I think you raise some really important points. One of the things that I appreciate about Council Forums is that they are less formal, they don't have to involve the (paid) time of ALA staff and resources, and they allow people to ask questions and have discussions in a way that ...

RE: Rules & Guidelines for ALA Hybrid Council Meetings

Posted By Jessamyn West May 02, 2022 09:20 PM
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> if we are trying to make Council participation more inclusive of all our members, we need to be more respectful of time, money and travel constraints. > Blocking out 3-4 days for travel to a conference requires a level of privilege not all librarians have; those same librarians may > much more easily ...

RE: Rules & Guidelines for ALA Hybrid Council Meetings

Posted By Jessamyn West Apr 29, 2022 10:44 AM
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> Given that Council members are members of the Association I don't understand how requiring registration > to attend Council meetings is not a violation of our existing policy? I was confused too by the seeming conflict between the new Rules & Guidelines and ALA Policy. I saw President Wong's statement ...

RE: Rules & Guidelines for ALA Hybrid Council Meetings

Posted By Jessamyn West Apr 28, 2022 08:20 PM
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Thanks for this Marsha -- I'm concerned about the new rule about meeting attendance. The new rules read... Virtual Attendees must register for the ALA Conference Digital Experience and Councilors are encouraged to be in attendance at least 15 minutes prior to the start of each Council meeting to help ...

RE: Councilor Registration Information for the 2022 Annual Conference and Council Meetings

Posted By Jessamyn West Apr 14, 2022 09:51 PM
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Thank you President Wong. In case anyone, like me, needs to refresh your memory on A.7.4.5 A.7.4.5 Registration at Conferences and Midwinter Meetings (Old Number 7.4.5) ALA members may attend general membership and council meetings, whenever and wherever held, by showing either a conference badge for ...

RE: ALA Council Calendar location on ALA.org

Posted By Jessamyn West Mar 23, 2022 09:21 PM
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That makes sense. However the message that people see when they try to see the content on that page is misleading at best. I'm aware this may not be a thing under your control, but just letting people know "Hey you have to log in to see this content" might make more sense. As it is, people click a ...

RE: ALA Annual Council Dates

Posted By Jessamyn West Mar 18, 2022 08:59 PM
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I am also a little surprised with this schedule, in addition to the fact that it can't be seen on the ALA website without logging in. I was expecting to have some meetings that are a little earlier than I would prefer, as someone who works nights, but for a hybrid session having not one but two meetings ...

ALA Council Calendar location on ALA.org

Posted By Jessamyn West Mar 16, 2022 12:24 PM
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I am looking for, and am unable to find, a calendar of Council  meetings on the ALA website that does not require a login to view. It appears that these pages used to exist, they all show up when I search for them, but the pages themselves are not available. I would like ALA to please put up a public ...

RE: Codification and Future Status of LibLearnX versus "Midwinter":

Posted By Jessamyn West Jan 27, 2022 05:27 PM
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Thank you very much for this Mike. I'm very excited for the potential for LLX, and the positive effect of not having governance/committee meetings at the same time as attractive programming. I really would like to continue to push for clarity in terms of knowing what event we're attending when we go ...

RE: ALA Annual Washington DC and hybrid forum for Council

Posted By Jessamyn West Jan 26, 2022 08:42 PM
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Same here. Not health reasons for me. As much as I'd love to see my colleagues in DC, sending a Councilor to Annual is my Chapter's largest expense and a hybrid event would be attractive to our chapter for cost reasons. ------------------------------ Jessamyn West Chapter Councilor - Vermont she/her ...

RE: Notes from Forum III

Posted By Jessamyn West Jan 23, 2022 08:09 PM
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I appreciate all of you doing this work, thanks Rhonda and Jackie and Gail. ------------------------------ Jessamyn West Chapter Councilor - Vermont she/her ------------------------------

RE: American Library Association announces LibLearnX will be virtual

Posted By Jessamyn West Sep 15, 2021 04:04 PM
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Thank you Marsha -- I appreciate that ALA has made this decision. I also think it might be worth using some of ALAs social capital to express plainly what is also possibly implied by this decision which is that Texas, in the light of Texas' recent anti-abortion legislation, is no longer a place that ...

RE: Council Schedule for LibLearnX

Posted By Jessamyn West Jul 15, 2021 11:02 AM
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I will definitely be attending remotely as long as there are options to do it because the Vermont Chapter is small and sending me to ALA is their largest annual expense. So I am looking forward to the schedule and am also hoping we can schedule the meetings at a more reasonable time for our colleagues ...

RE: Council 1 Farewell Resolution from the RC Chair

Posted By Jessamyn West Jun 28, 2021 12:45 PM
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Thanks so much for your work, Mike. And the work of your entire committee. ------------------------------ Jessamyn West Chapter Councilor - Vermont she/her ------------------------------

ALA's Code of Conduct - Next Steps

Posted By Jessamyn West Jun 15, 2021 11:12 AM
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Hello and thank you for the feedback you gave us on the ALA Code of Conduct. This is a status update to let you know where we are and what to expect next. Here's a link to the public version of the final draft . Our Draft Code of Conduct received 330 comments from 60 named people and 85 anonymous people. ...