Section Council of the Medical Library Association

Additional corrections have been made to the Section Nonmember Survey Report. The corrected version is available here.

The MLA Task Force on Social Networking Software has announced a new series of classes for MLA members.

January 19-25, “Media Sharing,” 2 CE credits
February 16-22, “Web Collaboration Tools” (registration required by February 9), 2 CE credits
March 9-15, “Wikis,” 2 CE credits
April 20-26, “Blogs,” 2 CE credits

For complete information, see the Task Force’s blog and the course web site.  Please share this information with your Section’s members.

Section Council has approved a new SIG — Institutional Animal Care and Use SIG.  Melissa Ratajeski will serve as convener.   Eighteen Sections voted with 17 voting YES and one voting NO.

Marie Ascher and her committee, Becky Satterthwaite and Sheila Bryant, have developed a new bookmark to promote Sections and SIGs. You may recognize the quilt image from the Section Council web site (photos by Kate Corcoran and design by Melissa Rethlefsen). If you have any comments, please direct them to Marie or Judy Burnham. The tool will be sent to MLA Headquarters, and they will produce it. Look for it in Hawaii!

See the front and back of the bookmark.

Section elections must be completed by February 15, 2009.

On your voting slate you need to elect:

1. A Potential Candidate for the MLA Nominating Committee.
2. A member from your section to the MLA Membership Committee (if your section does not appoint this position).

Electronic Voting for Sections

The Board of Directors in 2005 approved revisions to the model bylaws for MLA chapters and sections. The revised model amends Article IV Section 3.C of the Model Bylaws for use by Sections to allow for electronic voting, with the following new wording:

“Ballots shall be distributed by the Nominating Committee and returned to a member of the Nominating Committee in time for the results to be declared on or before February 15.”

If your Section has not amended its bylaws, voting should be done by sending out the slate via email, with members returning the ballot by fax.

When the election results are finalized Section Chairs need to do the following:

1. Notify Judy Burnham, Section Council Chair, regarding the election results for their Section by filling out the MLA Section Elections Result form.
2. Send the name of the Section’s Program Chair for MLA ‘10 to the Section Council Liaison to the NPC 2010, Gale Dutcher.
3. Make sure that your Potential Candidate for the MLA Nominating Committee completes the election information and background information form electronically and sends it to the Chair of the Section Council Elections Committee, Elizabeth LaRue, by February 15, 2009.

Potential Candidates for the MLA Nominating Committee

Section Council Representatives will be voting online for the Potential Candidates to the MLA Nominating Committee.

The nominees will be listed on the Section Council Web site. Section Council Representatives will gather input from their Section officers, and submit their vote to Elizabeth LaRue, Chair of the Section Council’s Election Committee, on or before Monday, April 7, 2009. There will be no extension to this deadline.

Questions about elections can be referred to:

Elizabeth LaRue
Section Council’s Election Committee Chair

or

Judy Burnham
Section Council Chair

Medical Library Association
Section Council Annual Meeting
Saturday, May 17, 2008
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Do you have ideas on what resources would benefit new and existing section webmasters?  Please suggest any resources or features you’d like to see in the comments or by sending an email to Section Council Webmaster Melissa Rethlefsen.

Section Council’s new website is under development.  Please send the Webmaster any comments at sectioncouncil [at] gmail [dot] com.

An updated version of the Section Nonmember Survey Report (PDF) is now available.

MLA members approved the proposed amendments to the MLA Bylaws in voting that took place from July 15–August 18. The amendments address bylaws revisions that change the governance structure of Section Council. Under the new structure, Section Council will be composed of section immediate past chairs and section chairs. The Section Immediate Past Chairs shall be the Voting Members of the Council. Members of Section Council shall serve two-year terms, the first year in their roles as Section Chairs and the second year in their roles as Section Immediate Past Chairs.