ACRL Chapters Council Leadership Position Description/Responsibilities

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1	ACRL Chapters Council--Position Description/Responsibilities
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4	Position: Vice Chair/Chair/Past Chair
5	Term: 3 yr, elected by membership at annual meeting; term runs July 1-June 30
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7	Duties:	Time of year occurance:
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9	Assist Chair with planning mid winter meeting*	summer/fall as needed
10	Attend mid winter meeting	winter
11	Promote & run elections--posting recruiting messaging, answering or fielding questions of position requirements; collecting candidate bio, statement, picture for ballot distrution) Elections take place in person at annual meeting. During COVID pandemic elections took place during remote meeting.	late winter-spring leading up to elections at annual meeting or preforming remote vote
12	Assist Chair with planning annual meeting	winter-spring
13	Assume Chair position	June 30
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15	Chair
16	Liasion with ALA Staff representative (currently Lauren Carlton)	year round as needed
17	Send information to membership via ALA Connect	as needed
18	Complete annual report	summer- due end of July
19	Serve as member of ALA Chapter Relations Committee
20	Complete ACRL Representative Report for ALA Annual
21	Provide update writeup for Chapters Topics newsletter	fall & spring semester
22	Plan mid winter meeting--including coordinate leadership availabilty, where/when meeting will be held; speaker (if desired); call for agenda items from the membership	summer/fall
23	Lead meeting	winter
24	Complete follow up from meeting if needed	winter
25	Plan annual meeting	winter-spring
26	Lead annual meeting**
27	Assume Past Chair position	June 30
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30	Assist with annual report if needed	summer
31	Provide guidance with respect to planning meetings	as needed
32	Special Projects as identified by the membership	as needed
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35	Notes:
36	Bolded duties indicate responsibilities that primary responsibilities & (often) most time consuming.
37	*mid winter and annual meeting may be subject to change as ALA Midwinter has changed and Annual has been remote due to the pandemic. There may be ability to change process to best suite the membership with ALA approval.
38	**pre pandemic this was held in person only at ALA Annual meeting. With the future unknown, it may offer opportunities to schedule/hold meetings in a different way that best suites membership.
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