List of Contributions

I will be a few minutes late, but I'll be there! My only updates at present are about winter events and about the search for the new ALA ED -- though if you have questions, I'm happy to answer them or get answers as needed. Karen G. Schneider

Hi all, I will be joining you sometime after the start of the meeting. I owe you a Board liaison update, but full disclosure, I wait until the governance office has draft minutes available before I send out updates to make sure I correctly report Board actions. cheers Karen G .SchneiderALA Executive ...

Hi there RMRT. I am a recent retiree and an RMRT member. I am a longstanding member of the Rainbow Round Table. Another RRT colleague and I are restarting an oral history project about the history of the round table. You can see earlier interviews here. We are still gathering knowledge about interview ...

Hi GameRT! I will likely be popping in and out of today's meeting, but will definitely show up for a bit. Karen G. SchneiderALA Executive Board

Hi all - did I miss something? I am on the Zoom call "waiting for the host to start the meeting." The last message (from 8/7) says the meeting is at noon CST and it is 10:05 PT here in California. Just making sure I'm not making a time zone error! Karen

Hi all, it's understandable that this new view of ALA assets can be hard to take in. To quote a Board colleague summarizing the Treasurer's presentation, "The surprise for most was that Net Asset Balance (NAB) does not equate to cash. The CFO explained that it doesn't exist in the accounting world. Only ...

Hi all, I joined RMRT in March. I appreciate the welcome message RMRT sent when I joined. I had a full schedule at Annual so I wasn't able to make any of the RMRT events, but it was great to see such an active group. I just retired last week so it felt timely to join. I am currently serving my second ...

I am assuming John is asking if he can sit in and observe the meeting. Diedre points out that ALA Council meetings are open--a very important commitment to "sunshine" in ALA's organizational design. By open, my understanding is that this is a special meeting of Council, for Councilors to participate ...