Committee Planning Report

NOTE: ** = Required Field

 

 

**Type of report being submitted: Committee Planning Report

 

**Date: 9/14/05

 

 

**Committee Name:  Exhibitor Contact and Relations Ad Hoc

 

 

**Supervising Board Member:  Treasurer (Catherine Collins)

 

 

**Chair, Co-Chairs, Assistant Chairs:  Shannon Tennant    

 

 

**Committee members:  None

 

 

**Committee Charge:  To study the role of the ECRC and recommend changes.  In the meantime, to continue to liaise with the Exhibitor's Round Table and individual vendors and administer the Marshall Cavendish essay contest.

 

 

**2005 - 2006 Project Description / Goals: 

1.  After discussion by the NMRT Board, it will be proposed that the ECRC committee be dissolved.  It will be recommended that the administration of the Marshall Cavendish essay contest will be taken over by a new committee, after the pattern of other award committees.  The committee will suggest that the role of vendor liaison will be taken over by the Networking Director. 

 

 

**Specific Objectives (numbers, tangible end-products): 

  1. To propose changes to the ECRC at the October NMRT Board meeting. 
  2. If changes are approved, to facilitate the transition of responsibilities to the new committee and/or vendor liaison.
  3. To continue to serve as a vendor liaison for all NMRT committees in the interim.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Financial Report Section:

Your budget appropriation (see budget)

a. 20.00

Amount which you have spent so far this year

b. 0.00

Your estimated additional expenses this year

c. 0.00

Total of amount spent and additional "estimated" expenses for this year (b+c)

d. 0.00

Difference between budgeted amount and total expenses from above (a-d)

e. 20.00

 

f. Vendor support planned or anticipated for the year (either money or in-kind gifts), list here: 

Marshall Cavendish will (hopefully) give three tickets to the Newbery/Caldecott/Wilder banquet held at the annual conference.  This donation will probably be handled by a new committee.

 

 

g. Vendor support requested: (From the above list, what, if any, has been requested from the Exhibitor Contact and Relations Committee?)

None.

 

 

h. Vendor support received: (From the above list, what if any, has been received?)

None.

 

                                                     

Specific Needs/Support (non-financial): (For the categories below, please include approximate date service needed)

a. Web Support (help with webpage creation, web form creation, web database, web database, scripting, etc): 

If the Marshall Cavendish essay contest does not get its own committee, the ECRC will request a website to advertise the contest.

 

b. On-site conference volunteers: (include estimated numbers needed and brief job description)

0

 

c. Publicity planned for the committee (posting to other discussion lists, official press release for webpage, etc.): 

If the Marshall Cavendish essay contest does not get its own committee, the ECRC will promote the contest on listservs.

 

 

**Report submitted by:  Shannon Tennant

 

**Email address:  stennant@elon.edu