ALIA Board Blog

The ALIA Board last met on 4 December, and will meet again on Sunday 18 January for a planning session, just ahead of Information Online 2009. What did we get up to then, and what’s next?

The main take home messages from the December meeting were

• The member survey has been completed. We were all delighted to be able to take home over 600 pages of results to look at over Christmas.
• The Board discussed the 2009 budget, and a presentation was made by the Association’s investment advisor, from ANZ. Despite the global economic climate, ALIA investments have fared reasonably well.
• Amendments to By-law 4 were agreed, in time to facilitate our first online voting, in 2009.
• The ALIA Public Libraries Summit 2009 was a major topic - plans are going well, and a particularly valuable preparation was the Public Library Associations meeting in November.
• ALIA is developing a publishing action plan, and progress on that was reported; recommendations will be presented at the March Board meeting.

At the planning session soon, the key input will be the member survey, which provides a huge amount of input to the Board on what our members think their association should be doing. There’s always room for more input, of course.

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