ALA Council II - Philadelphia
ALA Council II – Philadelphia
Regular opening business was conducted.
Report from Freedom to Read Foundation – FTRF will file an amicus brief in support of Valerie Plame.
There is one final action in the situation of the gag order and the NSL.
FTRF is working in two states on actions in those states.
Policy Monitoring Committee reported and several action items.
Action #1 changed wording to some headers in the policy manual. I voted for this and it passed.
Action #2 – deleted a sentence and added one to clarify the policy 7.4.10. I voted for this and it passed.
Action #3 – “Moves that terminology denoting the profession in the ALA Policy manual be regularized, to the extent possible, to “Library and Information Studies.” I voted for this and it passed.
Action #4 – “Moves that a recommendation that a single, comprehensive statement regarding the circumstances and positions that require personal membership be created and added to the Bylaws be referred to Constitution and Bylaws.” I voted for this and it passed.
There was discussion about a policy that prevents the sections, round tables, etc. about endorsing candidates for ALA President or other offices.
A motion was made: Move that the Executive Board revisit the campaigning guidelines/policy and report back to Council at Annual Conference 2008.
The following motion as placed in substitution for the previous motion:
Move Except for members of the ALA Executive Board, individuals who are elected officers or committee chairs of the Association and its units may personally endorse candidates.
I voted against this substitution and it failed. We returned to the original motion.
I voted for the original motion and it passed.
The Task Force on Electronic Member Participation did an interim report.
The Council Orientation Committee gave a report.
A motion was made from the floor.
“Move that the scheduling of ALA Council sessions end on Tuesday as the last Council meeting beginning at Midwinter 2009.”
Jim Rettig, ruled the motion out of order since it was out of the purview of Council and would be an action of Executive Board instead. That ruling was appealed. The chair reconsidered his ruling. The motion was put back into action.
Motion to refer this motion to BARC for further discussion given financial issues and report back to Council Summer 2008 Annual.
I voted to refer and it passed.
Task force on the Graduated Dues Study gave its final report.
The task force recommended that the entire study would be too expensive to complete at this time, but that some information would be found in other studies underway and come collection of information occur in the meantime; such as a demographic study.
The Committee on Accreditation made their report. The committee proposed some changes in language, but did not change accreditation in this report. Committee moved the changes be made.
Moved that action on CD#47.1 be deferred until after council has received the report of the Task Force on Library Education.
I voted against this motion, the motion failed.
I voted for the committee moved changes. It passed.
The committee on Professional Ethics gave their report. Three changes to the ALA Code of Ethics were proposed. Two changes were merely adding a comma to two different articles.
The third change was to change Article IV from “We recognize and respect intellectual property rights.” To this proposed language, “We respect intellectual property rights and advocate balance between the interests of information users and rights holders.”
I voted against the change hoping for a fuller discussion. The motion passed.
Three Honorary Membership Nominations were discussed. Peggy Sullivan, Effie Lee Morris, and Pat Mora.
Keith Michael Fiels made announcements.
Attendance figures as of Monday 10,533 registrants 13,601 grand total which is about 1,300 more than last midwinter.
Regular opening business was conducted.
Report from Freedom to Read Foundation – FTRF will file an amicus brief in support of Valerie Plame.
There is one final action in the situation of the gag order and the NSL.
FTRF is working in two states on actions in those states.
Policy Monitoring Committee reported and several action items.
Action #1 changed wording to some headers in the policy manual. I voted for this and it passed.
Action #2 – deleted a sentence and added one to clarify the policy 7.4.10. I voted for this and it passed.
Action #3 – “Moves that terminology denoting the profession in the ALA Policy manual be regularized, to the extent possible, to “Library and Information Studies.” I voted for this and it passed.
Action #4 – “Moves that a recommendation that a single, comprehensive statement regarding the circumstances and positions that require personal membership be created and added to the Bylaws be referred to Constitution and Bylaws.” I voted for this and it passed.
There was discussion about a policy that prevents the sections, round tables, etc. about endorsing candidates for ALA President or other offices.
A motion was made: Move that the Executive Board revisit the campaigning guidelines/policy and report back to Council at Annual Conference 2008.
The following motion as placed in substitution for the previous motion:
Move Except for members of the ALA Executive Board, individuals who are elected officers or committee chairs of the Association and its units may personally endorse candidates.
I voted against this substitution and it failed. We returned to the original motion.
I voted for the original motion and it passed.
The Task Force on Electronic Member Participation did an interim report.
The Council Orientation Committee gave a report.
A motion was made from the floor.
“Move that the scheduling of ALA Council sessions end on Tuesday as the last Council meeting beginning at Midwinter 2009.”
Jim Rettig, ruled the motion out of order since it was out of the purview of Council and would be an action of Executive Board instead. That ruling was appealed. The chair reconsidered his ruling. The motion was put back into action.
Motion to refer this motion to BARC for further discussion given financial issues and report back to Council Summer 2008 Annual.
I voted to refer and it passed.
Task force on the Graduated Dues Study gave its final report.
The task force recommended that the entire study would be too expensive to complete at this time, but that some information would be found in other studies underway and come collection of information occur in the meantime; such as a demographic study.
The Committee on Accreditation made their report. The committee proposed some changes in language, but did not change accreditation in this report. Committee moved the changes be made.
Moved that action on CD#47.1 be deferred until after council has received the report of the Task Force on Library Education.
I voted against this motion, the motion failed.
I voted for the committee moved changes. It passed.
The committee on Professional Ethics gave their report. Three changes to the ALA Code of Ethics were proposed. Two changes were merely adding a comma to two different articles.
The third change was to change Article IV from “We recognize and respect intellectual property rights.” To this proposed language, “We respect intellectual property rights and advocate balance between the interests of information users and rights holders.”
I voted against the change hoping for a fuller discussion. The motion passed.
Three Honorary Membership Nominations were discussed. Peggy Sullivan, Effie Lee Morris, and Pat Mora.
Keith Michael Fiels made announcements.
Attendance figures as of Monday 10,533 registrants 13,601 grand total which is about 1,300 more than last midwinter.
Comments
Thank you, Rob, for your fine reports!
Posted by: Susan | January 15, 2008 11:54 AM