ALIA Board meeting 5 August 2007: key issues

Governance:

The Board of Directors Standing Committees altered Terms of Reference were noted and adopted.

A three year Board Succession and Readiness Plan "Boardroom Bound" was adopted. The program includes development of a web site and a training program for ALIA members.

The review of ALIA Advisory Groups was tabled:

• Decision to cease both the ALIA International Relations Policy Advisory Group and the ALIA Purchasing and Consortia Reference Group as advised by group members. The issue of what ALIA should do in international relations is referred to the Board for further consideration later in the year.
• Decision to alter group names, to now be committees, for naming consistency.
• Decision to appoint a new graduate member to the ALIA Online Content and Regulation Reference Committee.
• Investigation to commence into online communication tools for Committee communication.
• Investigating which Advisory Committees will have direct relationships with ALIA Standing Committees.

The Board finalised preparations for the 2007 National Advisory Congress, including the meeting schedule.

The Board commenced planning for the 2008 draft budget.

The Board endorsed the signing of the ALIA/ Institute for Information Management (IIM) MOU and ALIA/Australian School Library Association (ASLA) MOU.

The Board endorsed the appointment of Jan Gordon and Trevor Wakely to the ALIA By-laws Advisory Committee.

The Board endorsed the re-appointment of Joyce Kirk as ALIA representative on the National Library of Australia's Harold White Fellowship Committee.

The Board requested ALIA Membership and Awards Standing Committee to investigate an ALIA Members skills database.

ABC "The Librarians" set to air in October 2007. ALIA is investigating setting up a related blog which would be linked to from the ABC web site.

The board endorsed $5000 support for the NeXus project for stage 2.

The board endorsed ALIA support for a webpage for the Metadata Advisory Committee for Australian Repositories.

The board endorsed the decision to increase insurance on the ALIA building to $6million based on a report from the Assistant Director, Business Support including information on the value of the building.

The board endorsed the adoption of the ALIA Information Technology Development Plan 2007-2008 and support 'critical' and 'very high' implementations as soon as possible.

The board endorsed the ALIA membership survey proposal from Membership and Awards Standing Committee.

The board endorsed the new ALIA Online Communication Guidelines which address email and web acceptable behaviour and responsibilities.