http://wikis.ala.org/council/index.php?title=Washington_Library_Association_Chapter_Councilor_Report_MW2007&feed=atom&action=history Washington Library Association Chapter Councilor Report MW2007 - Revision history 2015-10-07T10:25:03Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.25.1 http://wikis.ala.org/council/index.php?title=Washington_Library_Association_Chapter_Councilor_Report_MW2007&diff=1564&oldid=prev Jbetzzall at 15:56, 24 June 2007 2007-06-24T15:56:31Z <p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>American Library Association Annual Conference June 22-27, 2007<br /> <br /> ALA Report, January 2007, Seattle WA<br /> <br /> Jonathan Betz-Zall, ALA Councilor, Washington Library Association<br /> <br /> ALA met for the first time in many years in Seattle this year for its annual &quot;business&quot; meeting. This meeting traditionally avoids informational programming in favor of committee meetings and decisionmaking. As usual, the press focused mostly on the Caldecott and Newbery awards, capped by author appearances on the Today Show. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Strategic Plan:<br /> At Council, ALA staff described their plans to implement the new initiatives called for in the new strategic plan, titled &quot;Ahead to 2010&quot;, which can now be funded by the dues increase that the membership adopted this spring. Because the dues increase is expected to depress membership renewals a bit, most of the increased funds will be delayed until the second and subsequent years of the plan, so the new activities are timed accordingly. The goal areas previously identified (Advocacy, Education, Public Policy and Standards, Building the Profession, Membership (i.e. value to members), and Organizational Excellence) are being fleshed out with Strategic Objectives and specific strategies, complete with assignments to specific ALA units. Most of the 1.2 million in additional funds will be directed to the new initiatives and technology improvements. <br /> <br /> Finances: ALA staff is establishing a list of socially responsible firms for ALA to contract with for the purchase of goods and services; it now includes 200 firms. ALA has retired the debts incurred in fighting the Children's Internet Protection Act and CDAct. The process of considering a graduated dues structure ground along; a study is underway to gather the prerequisite cost information for developing a work plan. <br /> <br /> Resolutions: ALA is now on record as:<br /> Urging libraries to help educate the public about the genocide occurring in Darfur, Sudan. <br /> Opposing the so-called &quot;Taxpayer Bill of Rights&quot; (TABOR) bills that have been adopted in Colorado and other states. [Colorado voters have since repealed it.]<br /> Urging Congress to direct the EPA to fund the EPA library network<br /> Supporting the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006, which directs federal agencies to supply their documents to depository libraries<br /> Urging Congress to stop the destruction of Federal libraries and employ professional librarians to staff them<br /> Supporting online social networks as developers nf information literacy skills<br /> Affirming Network Neutrality (against big telecom proposals to create &quot;fast lane&quot; that would discriminate against everyone else)<br /> Supporting the E-rate discounts for libraries and schools<br /> Supporting American Ass'n of Law Libraries resolution on public access to federal Public Accerss to Court Electronic Records (PACER)<br /> Endorsing HR676, Single Payer Healthcare &quot;Expanded Medicare for All&quot; and S2772, &quot;Health Partnership Act&quot;.<br /> Recommending standards for retention of library usage records<br /> Recommending collaboration among ALA units &quot;toward a national conversation about privacy as an American value&quot;<br /> Commending the &quot;John Does&quot; of the Library Connection for their resistance to a National Security Letter from the FBI.<br /> adopting the &quot;Resolution on Lessons Learned from Meeting in New Orleans&quot; which commends librarians in the Gulf Coast area for their response to the disaster, calls on conference attendees to bear witness to the extent of the work that remains to be done there, and urges librarians to establish or strengthen their relationships with state and local emergency planning agencies to ensure that libraries are part of the preparation, response and recovery in future disasters.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> APA<br /> ALA's Allied Professional Association has decided not to change its official name, but referred to itself as &quot;the organization for the advancement of library employees&quot;. This will be used for all contexts outside of legal ones. ALA-APA's certification efforts appear to be catching on, as 11 approved courses are being offered. APA is also promoting library staff members to join ALA in order to get discounts on APA services. Support staff certification is underway; the Western Council of State Libraries has developed a set of competencies that APA will consider using. APA is working on a new non-MLS salary survey, covering 69 job titles. Meanwhile, the librarians' salary survey conitinues. 4000 libraries have been surveyed, and the resulting analysis will be published. The library worklife electronic newsletter is available as a benefit of ALA institutional membership. APA's financial picture is improving; its expanded products are projected to bring in much more money in the coming year so that it can start paying back the money loaned by ALA. Councilors expressed concern with the lack of publicity for ALA-APA's work. Member contributions are still badly needed to keep it solvent. The ALA-APA COuncil supported its Committee on the Salary and Status of Library Workers' resolution on support for Freedom to Form Unions: Employee Free Choice Act, but defeated a second resolution supporting overtime pay protections. <br /> <br /> <br /> Council I<br /> Plan to describe dissemination of resolutions. <br /> Resolution endorsing health care legislation referred to Committee on Legislation to be reported back by Council 3.<br /> Selection of keynote speakers. Guidelines being developed by Conference Committee. <br /> <br /> Council II<br /> adopted resolution opposing TABOR initiatives<br /> Graduated dues structure, study of cost of survey, BARC looking for broad member participation in process, &quot;other alternatives&quot; to structure based on salary (e.g. based on participation, whatever that may mean), seeking to gather more information on existing salary levels. <br /> <br /> Budget: 2007 the &quot;Year of the Member&quot;. More member support: CE opportunities, member-driven initiatives, 2010 goals &amp; objectives, research and development of new products.<br /> Legislation &amp; advocacy, digital products, CE in multiple formats<br /> Staff salary increase<br /> concerns: recruitment difficulty, healthcare costs, costs of digital products, publishing revenue must break all records to meet projections, competition from profit and nonprofit organizations<br /> Over last 5 years ALA has lost ground because revenue growth has been eaten by inflation, so ALA cannot meet new demands.<br /> Revenue projections depend on more people joining &amp; coming to conference.<br /> Hoping for healthy increase from dues in 2008-2010.<br /> Products and services: net profit margin shows how well we control our costs, drives cash flow and ability to borrow in future. <br /> Meetings and conferences remain volatile, though publishing holds its own. Publishing expected to bring in 800K more in next year. ALA editions and techsource publications will increase with better staffing, R&amp;D on new products. Growth design for future.<br /> Meetings: more lucrative locations will raise margin, but vulnerable because of new costs like terrorism insurance. Higher registration fees are still a bargain in CE and networking benefits. Exhibitors help revenue.<br /> Growing financial base. <br /> Not only more revenue but expanded public awareness, better tools and products.<br /> Question about cost of conference cancellation insurance. fear of terrorism has increased cost from about 35K to 90K.<br /> Budgetary ceiling: 54,653,986.<br /> <br /> Freedom to Read Foundation<br /> Meet &quot;John Doe&quot; program yesterday, challenged the constitutionality of National Security Letters and gag order. Key successes in Patriot act: right to consult an attorney, right to mount a challenge, right to contest a gag order, requirement to Justice Dept to report number of uses. <br /> Newest case: right of prisoners to receive information. Beard vs. Banks will be heard by US Supreme Court. King's english vs. Shurtleff--CDA case in Utah. <br /> FTRF will be ready to act when need arises, ability depends on members' support. <br /> <br /> Darfur resolution amended to add clause calling on publishers to seek out and publish material to inform public on Darfur and other genocidal conflicts, then adopted.<br /> <br /> Council III<br /> <br /> Nominations and elections: adjusting publication of candidates for council in American Libraries in bylaws. <br /> Legislation: call for Wash office to hire knowledgeable staff on gov't libraries, cataloging, printing<br /> EPA libraries: raised WLA resolution in support.<br /> Health Insurance resolution: unanimous passage?<br /> IF: major part of core values<br /> Retention of Library Usage Records: <br /> <br /> Cttee on Org: committee reports working on electronic meeting participation. <br /> <br /> approved res on lessons learned from meeting in New Orleans [appeared unanimous]</div> Jbetzzall
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