NOTE: ** = Required Field
**Type of report being submitted: Committee Final Report
**Date: June 15, 2006
**Committee Name: NMRT Nominating Committee
**Supervising Board Member: Sally Gibson
**Chair, Co-Chairs, Assistant Chairs: Erin Ellis
**Committee members: Tiana French, Jessica Hutchings
**Goals, Objectives, Projects completed
(including, but not limited to, any procedures, tip sheets, checklists, etc.
created during the reporting year):
a) solicited
nominations and recommendations for vacant NMRT offices
b) prepared
a slate of candidates
c) communication
with candidates and NMRT membership (via NMRT-L and Footnotes)
d) prepared
ballot
e) hosted
a 30 minute in-person candidate forum during the NMRT All-Committee meeting at
Midwinter
f)
hosted a 3 week long
online candidate forum; also included ALA Presidential candidates
g) updated
NMRT Nominating web pages to reflect current election year candidates and
information
h) Distributed a listing of NMRT members, in good
standing, running for other ALA offices
i)
communication with Kim
Sanders and the Governance Committee in ballot preparation
j)
There were 442 ballots
cast. Total number of eligible NMRT
voters in 2005-2006: 1730 (based on the 2005-2006 ALA Handbook of Organization)
**Action Items/Issues To Be Resolved –
What plans/projects remain which will be carried over or postponed until next
year? Have there been any substantial changes in plans requiring a
reconsideration or cancellation of projects? Information regarding such will be
helpful for future chairs and planners.
a) The
NMRT Nominating web page needs to be updated to reflect this year's results.
b) It
would be useful to identify better/different ways to include the NMRT
membership more – especially in regards to what questions are asked during the
forums. This year we attempted
repeatedly to solicit input from members via NMRT-L with little response. Perhaps a short survey could be done to
determine what interests (if any) the membership has in the NMRT leadership and
cabinet, what could be done to increase participation, etc.
c) Handbook
could use some updating, particularly the dead links.
Comments:
I'd like to suggest that the GMail
account that has been established continue to be used as a homebase account for
this committee (assuming that a special NMRT or ALA account cannot be
done). This committee handles an
enormous amount of e-mail and it's good to have a separate, large account so a
work or personal email does not clog up.
Also, the Sender from this account is “NMRT Nominating” so it is easily
identifiable to recipients; whereas, some may get confused when it is a
personal name in the Send field. I think
a passing on of passwords could be done easily and each new chair could change
it upon their takeover.
Running the online forum can be awkward
and very time-consuming. Regularizing
the schedule and making it relatively adaptable from year-to-year will help
tremendously.
This year we also formalized the
in-person candidate forum more than it had been in the previous year. I suggest that this practice continue as it
is an important opportunity for NMRT members to see and hear from the
candidates and it is important that candidates have an opportunity to speak
publicly about why they are running and their ideas for NMRT. As noted by the supervising board member this
year, candidates should be able to effectively address questions and the
membership if they are going to be effective leaders in the round table.
It will also be important for future
chairs of this committee remember to keep in contact with their web liaison to
make web site updates timely. Also,
don't forget to consult with the Governance committee before preparing the
ballot!
Financial Report Section:
|
Your budget appropriation (see budget) |
a. $0.00 |
Amount which you have spent this year
|
b. $0.00 |
|
Difference between budgeted amount and
amount spent (a-b) |
c.
$0.00 |
**Report submitted by: Erin L. Ellis
**Email address: eellis@ku.edu