Handbook
Administrative Committees: Membership Committee
The Membership Committee is appointed annually (August-July) to facilitate member recruitment, retention and involvement. The committee chair is appointed by the TS-SIS Chair soon after taking office. The committee chair appoints at least four other members. Committee members may be reappointed for more than one year.
The chair:
- Assigns committee members to obtain a list of new section members and to send them welcome materials by post and/or email. Each new section member should receive a welcome letter, a TS-SIS brochure, and a volunteer form.
- Assigns committee members to contact technical services librarians who are members of AALL, but not of TS-SIS, and encourage them to join the section.
- Prepares the volunteer request form and sends it to the webmaster to be posted on the TS-SIS website by February 1. Sends out an announcement on the online discussion forum (ts-sis@aallnet.org) encouraging members to volunteer by completing and submitting the form on the website. Forward copies of submitted volunteer forms to the appropriate committee chairs and/or officers.
- Assists the TS-SIS Chair in answering inquiries about membership in the section.
- Maintains the section's supply of TS-SIS brochures.
- With assistance from the TS-SIS Chair, revises and updates the TS-SIS brochure as deemed appropriate by the Executive Board.
- Represents TS-SIS at the CONELL Marketplace.
- Serves as liaison to the AALL Mentorship Project. Assign a committee member to solicit TS-SIS members as mentors and mentees in the AALL Mentorship Project.
- Signs up to spend at least 1 hour at the TS-SIS table in the exhibit hall at the annual meeting, and asks committee members who are attending the meeting to do likewise.
- Submits an article to TSLL at least once a year.
- Reports briefly on the committee's activities at the TS-SIS business meeting.
- Submits a written report to the TS-SIS Chair detailing the committee's activities according to the deadline set by the Chair each year.
Revised March 2006