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ACRL Board of Directors’ actions, July 2000

ACRL Board of Directors’ actions, July 2000

Highlights of the Board’s Annual Conference meetings

During the 2000 ALA Conference in Chicago, the ACRL Board of Directors met on July 8 and 11 and took the following actions.

ACRL structure

Rescinded the action to establish the Academic or Research Librarian of the Year Award Nominations Committee.

Created the Scholarly CommunicationsTask Force with charge and composition.

Disbanded the Professional EnhancementCommittee.

Approved extending invitations toformer Board members and others identified by the ACRL President and immediate Past-President for participation in the ACRL Fellows Program.

ACRL governance

Adopted revised policies for implementing the Strategic Plan.

Upon recommendation from the Professional Development Committee approved a revised charge for the committee.

Extended the life of the InformationLiteracy Competency Standards Task Force with a revised charge to develop a plan for marketing the Standards to the higher education community and for seeking endorsement of the Standards among higher education discipline organizations.

By consent, voted to establish the Information Literacy Advisory Committee and its charge and composition.

Finances

Voted to establish a task force to reviewthe Initiative Fund situation for Chapters and suggest other means for supporting the professional development efforts of Chapters.

Approved a $1,500 allocation to eachsection to be used in 2000-01 for implementing activities that support the new Strategic Plan. Sections are encouraged to be innovative and experimental in the use of these funds.

Adopted FY 2000-01 budgets for ACRLrevenues of $2,764,811 and expenses of $2,728,344 and CHOICE revenues of $2,440,061 and expenses of $2,417,020.

Approved the revised Financial Plan for2001 with changes in the amount of funds being transferred from the ACRL Operating Fund Balance in 2002 and 2003 from $500,000 to $300,000 and from the CHOICE Operating Fund Balance to $100,000 for 2002 and 2003.

Government relations

Endorsed upon recommendation of theGovernment Relations Committee the following resolutions:

ACRL Board 1999-2000 (I to r): (back) Larry Hardesty, Paul E. Dumont, Mary Lee Sweat, Lois Cherepon, Robert F. Rose, William E. Brown, John Popko, Maureen Sullivan; (front) Helen H. Spalding, Betsy Wilson, Barbara Baxter Jenkins, Theresa S. Byrd, Dana C. Rooks. Not pictured; Althea H. Jenkins.

• To encourage libraries and members to study issues of privacy and educate staff and patrons, and to support the ALA Office for Information Technology policy initiatives to enhance and reclaim privacy.

• That state ACRL Chapters be alerted to the existence of the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA); that state chapters notify the Washington Office if their state begins to take action on UCITA; and that state chapters educate their state house representative on this issue and work against the adoption of UCITA in their respective states.

• That the ACRL Board, through the Council of Liaisons, urge the higher education community to promote consideration of the proposed legislation for distance education fair use exemption of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Honors

By consent, voted to submit the Resolution of Appreciation for Richard M. Dougherty to the ALA Council for endorsement.

Intellectual freedomBy consent, voted to accept the recommendation from the ACRL Intellectual Freedom Committee to take the Intellectual Freedom Principles for Academic Libraries to ALA Council for formal adoption as an interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights.

Endorsed the proposed changes to theIntellectual Freedom policies and the Intellectual Freedom manual as proposed by the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee upon recommendation of the Intellectual Freedom Committee.

Partnerships

Voted to form a partnership with the TLTGroup (Teaching, Learning, and Technology) to advance the New (V) TLTC—Virtual Teaching, Learning, and Technology Centers.

Voted to continue its support for ACRL’sliaison activities with higher education organizations.

Professional development

Adopted the Statement on ProfessionalDevelopment upon recommendation of the Professional Development Committee.

Approved programs from 18 ACRL unitsfor presentation during the ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco.

ACRL Board 2000-2001 (I to r): (back) Althea H. Jenkins, Barbara Baxter Jenkins, Mary Lee Sweat, Robert F. Rose, Lois Cheperon, William E. Brown, Deborah Dancik, Paul E. Dumont, Theresa S. Byrd; (front) Mary L. Reichel, Larry Hardesty, Betsy Wilson, Helen H. Spalding, John Popko.

Accepted the ALA Business Plan for the

Web-based CE Programs and approved funding to support the development of course content.

Accepted the final report from the AASL/

ACRL Task Force on the Educational Role of

Libraries and requested that it be posted on the ACRL Web site.

Scholarships

Adopted the proposed policy for

Implementing ACRL’s Scholarship Program. ■