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ACRL Board of Directors’ actions, January 2007: Highlights of the Board’s Midwinter meetings

C&RL News, March 2007
Vol. 68, No. 3

During the 2007 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, the ACRL Board of Directors met on January 20 and 23 and took the following actions.

Strategic Area: Higher Education and Research
Goal Area: Learning—ACRL and its members are recognized as collaborative leaders in teaching lifelong learning skills, improving techniques for assessing learning outcomes, and in creating environments for discovery.

Approved the Council of New Zealand University Librarians’ request to adapt the ACRL statement, “Characteristics of Programs of Information Literacy that Illustrate Best Practices: A Guideline,” for New Zealand universities.

Endorsed, and allowed the ACRL Instruction Section to endorse, the S.O.S. for Information Literacy Project.
(www.informationliteracy.org).

Goal Area: Scholarship—ACRL and its members are recognized as authorities on knowledge management; and the creation, collection, preservation, access, and exchange of information.

Approved $1,000 to support a Public Knowledge Project Conference session.

Endorsed an ALA resolution in support of “orphan works” legislation.

Approved ACRL’s organizational mem-bership in the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.

Goal Area: Advocacy—ACRL has greater influence on the higher education and research environment.

Adopted the 2007 ACRL Legislative Agenda (www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/washingtonwatch).

Added ACRL’s endorsement to the American Association of University Professors’ “1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure.”
(www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/policydocs/1940statement.htm).

Strategic Area: The Profession
Goal Area: Continuous Learning—ACRL provides continuous learning opportunities enabling members to strengthen their effectiveness and achieve recognition as valued contributors to their academic and research communities.

Approved a proposal establishing the University of Virginia as the host and site of the 50th annual RBMS preconference, to be held July 6-9, 2009.

Goal Area: Leadership­­—ACRL members achieve recognition as leaders and advocates for academic and research libraries.

Approved a revision of the “Guidelines for Academic Status of College and University Librarians.”

Endorsed the ALA tribute resolution in honor of Spectrum’s 10th Anniversary and permitted the ACRL Intellectual Freedom Committee to endorse it, as well.

Received the White Paper resulting from the Board’s Diversity Working Group’s efforts, entitled “Achieving Racial and Ethnic Diversity Among Academic and Research Librarians: The Recruitment, Retention, and Advancement of Librarians of Color,” as a document to help inform the Board’s decisions and to direct its actions toward continued implementation of the strategic objectives as outlined in the ACRL Strategic Plan.

Confirmed the ACRL Board’s e-mail votes of August 14–August 25, 2006, approving Richard Clement as nominee to represent ALA on IFLA’s Rare and Precious Books and Manuscripts standing committee and Elizabeth Cooper as nominee for IFLA’s Social Science Librarians standing committee based on the recommendations of the ACRL International Relations Committee. (Note: Richard Clement has since had to withdraw his name from consideration and will not move forward in the process.)

Strategic Area: The Association
Goal Area: Sustainability—ACRL will have the fiscal resources, staff expertise, and organizational structure to advance the association’s strategic plan.

Approved the minutes of the ACRL Board of Directors’ meetings held at the 2006 ALA Annual Conference.

Approved the dissolution of the ACRL Electronic Text Centers Discussion Group.

Approved a policy establishing criteria for section dissolution due to inactivity.
(www.acrl.org/ala/acrl/aboutacrl/resourcesforwork/guidetopolicies/chapter4acrl.htm#4twelve).

Approved a revision to the LPSS Bylaws, adding the position of section Webmaster as a member of the LPSS Executive Committee.

Approved the creation of the Friends of ACRL Review Task Force.

Approved a revision of the CHOICE and ACRL financial policies to allow ACRL to make use of a predetermined portion of CHOICE assets for ACRL operational expenses effective September 1, 2008 (FY 2009).