Committee Planning Report

NOTE: ** = Required Field

 

 

**Type of report being submitted: Committee Planning Report

 

**Date: September 15, 2005

 

 

**Committee Name:  NMRT Membership Promotion, Diversity, and Recruitment Committee

 

 

**Supervising Board Member:  Nanette Donahue

 

 

**Chair, Co-Chairs, Assistant Chairs:  Jody L. Gray, Chair

 

 

**Committee members:  Leland R. Deeds, Denise Sharp, Karen Evans, Angela Boyd, Theresa Zelasko, Li Zhang

 

 

**Committee Charge:  This committee focuses on recruiting new members of ALA, library school students, and members from under-represented groups into NMRT.  It will incorporate the work of the Diversity Committee and serve as a liaison to the ALA Office of Diversity.

 

**2005 - 2006 Project Description / Goals: 

Since this is the first year with the combined committee (former Membership Promotion Retention and Diversity committees) one of our goals will be to identify how to integrate these committees into one.  In that same vein there are several projects that both committees have started that would be useful to accomplish.

 

1. Put forth a survey to the membership to get an idea of how NMRT members define themselves in terms of diversity.
2. Send letters/email about joining NMRT to people who filled out the booth surveys.
3. Generate a list of members of ALA with less than 3 years of membership who are not already NMRT Members.

 

 

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

1. Diversity Survey – Propose an open-ended question survey in order to recognize how members would like to represent themselves.  This would supplement the ALA demographics survey, of which we would like to gather data as well.  This will involve working with Kim Saunders and Nadine Flores.
2. The previous chair of MPR has sent Jody Gray the booth surveys that were done at ALA Annual.  They include contact information for people interested in NMRT.  MPR has already created a letter, so we will need to organize and send this out to the interested parties.
3. Generate the list of new ALA members (from last 3 years) by contacting Kim Saunders and send a mailing to this group.

 

Financial Report Section:  

Your budget appropriation (see budget)	a. $250.00
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. $0.00

 

f. Vendor support planned or anticipated for the year (either money or in-kind gifts), list here:  None

 

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):  None

 

b. On-site conference volunteers: (include estimated numbers needed and brief job description):  None

 

c. Publicity planned for the committee (posting to other discussion lists, official press release for webpage, etc.):  None

 

**Report submitted by:  Jody L. Gray   

 

**Email address:  grayjl@umn.edu