I attended the following meetings since the last Council meeting in December:
- December 19, 2023: Committee Chairs meeting
- January 3, 2024: Meeting with Maureen Squier, SSL President, and AnnaLee Dragon
- January 8, 2024: Communications Committee meeting
- January 10, 2024: Meeting with Adam Saunders, President of SUNYLA, and AnnaLee Dragon
- January 11, 2024: Intellectual Freedom Committee meeting
- January 12, 2024: Legislative Committee meeting
- January 19-22, 2024: ALA LibLearnX State Chapters Advocacy networking meeting
- January 24, 2024: Governance Committee meeting
- January 31, 2024: Membership Committee meeting
The Governance Committee is beginning to work on creating the structure, policies, and procedures to conform to the recent changes to our bylaws and the new membership organizational changes. I also hope to have the committee work on revising the NYLA Code of Conduct and creating some general rules/guidelines for the Council moving forward.
Have you seen the new NYLA website? If you haven’t clicked around yet, please take some time to do so! It is so much more functional than the previous website, and I think our members will find the design simpler to navigate.
I am excited to begin work on this year’s annual conference, taking place in Syracuse from November 6-9. Let’s make this conference the most attended in Syracuse yet