Committee Planning Report

 

Type of report being submitted: Committee Planning Report

 

Date: Oct. 16, 2006

 

 

Committee Name:  Membership, Promotion, Diversity and Recruitment Committee

 

 

 

Supervising Board Member:  Samantha Schmehl Hines

 

 

 

Chair, Co-Chairs, Assistant Chairs:  Jeannette Ho

 

 

 

Committee members:  Octavius Spruill, Danya Leebaw, Jean Chelich, Veronica Stevenson-Moudamane, Judith Gaydos, Marla Peppers

 

 

 

Committee Charge:  This committee focuses on recruiting new members, library school students, and members from underrepresented groups.  It will incorporate the work of the Diversity committee and serve as a liaison to ALA's Office of Diversity.

 

 

 

2006 - 2007 Project Description / Goals:  This year's committee will focus on recruiting newer members of ALA.  We will also work on clarifying the charge as it relates to diversity, and investigate ways to promote NMRT membership to minority-based affiliates of ALA. 

 

 

 

Specific Objectives (numbers, tangible end-products): 

 

  1. Obtain a list of the 2006 Spectrum Scholars and ALA General Scholarship winners and draft an e-mail welcoming them to the profession and inviting them to join NMRT.
  2. Obtain recent list of new ALA members who joined within the last 1-2 years.
  3. Revise recruitment letter.
  4. Send recruitment letter to new ALA members.
  5. Send e-mail promoting NMRT and its events to diversity-related listservs.

6.   Discuss charge with committee members.

7.   Investigate feasibility of carrying out diversity survey of NMRT.  Contact ALA Office

            of Statistics (and ALA Office of Diversity) to learn what data has been collected.

8.   Develop timeline and handbook entry for the committee.

 

 

 

Financial Report Section:

Your budget appropriation (see budget)

a. 50.00

Amount which you have spent so far this year

b. 0

Your estimated additional expenses this year

c. 0

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

d.0

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

e. 50.00

 

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 at this time.

 

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.): 

 

We may post messages to other discussion lists inviting new librarians to join NMRT.

 

 

Report submitted by:  Jeannette Ho

 

Email address:  jaho@tamu.edu