Central Committee
This committee coordinates with other committees, subcommittees, and the Legislative Consultant to promote the awareness of school library programs through internal and external communication and publications.
- As board meetings remain online during the pandemic, schedule regular meetings with your committee members between board meetings.
- Review and, if needed, update your position’s Standard Operating Procedure.
- Utilize your SLC email account for any SLC-related communications.
- Utilize your committee’s folder in the Shared Drive for any SLC-related work.
- Work with social media to promote your committee’s work.
- Work with the Credentials Chair to draft an official SLC response to DOE’s administrative code for certification. Contribute a voice to develop a statewide SLMS job description.
- Work with Advocacy, Professional Outreach Committee, AASL State-Level Leader, and Legislative Consultant to develop a standard presentation featuring importance of school librarians and exemplary library programs that can be shared at stakeholder meetings.
- Communicate with Awards Chair to publicize upcoming SLC award opportunities and winners each year.
Support - TBA (Central Committee)
This subcommittee will work with the Legislative Consultant to identify ways to promote school librarianship, push for legislation, and respond to job threats.
- Review and, if needed, update your position’s Standard Operating Procedure.
- Utilize your SLC email account for any SLC-related communications.
- Utilize your committee’s folder in the Shared Drive for any SLC-related work.
- Work with social media to promote your committee’s work.
- Continue to promote SLC Advocacy and school media specialists, via communication streams, to make our work more visible to the public and stakeholders.
- Share via Public Relations Committees the many ways SLC Advocacy has already impacted job losses across the state.
- Work with Public Relations, Professional Outreach Committee, AASL State-Level Leader, and Legislative Consultant to develop a standard presentation featuring importance of school librarians and exemplary library programs that can be shared at stakeholder meetings.
- Coordinate with Public Relations Social Media subcommittee to identify opportunities to promote library programs.
- Work with the Vice-President, Legislative Representative, Professional Outreach Chair, Every Library and BPCL Liaison to complete SLC’s Advocacy Toolkit and develop a streamlined response to job loss reports.
- Coordinate with Webmaster to publish the Advocacy Toolkit and feature Advocacy initiatives and successes.
School Affiliations - Central Committee
The focus of this subcommittee will be to build partnerships with school districts by connecting with administrators to introduce SLC and the support the organization can bring to their school libraries and school librarians. In addition, it will be the job of the district recruiter to identify districts with few or no librarians and promote the necessity of school librarians.
- Review and, if needed, update your position’s Standard Operating Procedure (this will be developed in 2020-2021, as this position is new this year).
- Utilize your SLC email account for any SLC-related communications.
- Utilize your committee’s folder in the Shared Drive for any SLC-related work.
- Work with social media to promote your committee’s work.
- Work with the Legislative Consultant to identify districts in need of school librarians and point of contact.
- Partner with Advocacy subcommittee to utilize advocacy toolkit to share advocacy resources with district administrators.
- Connect with Membership chair to identify members of each district that will be contacted. Reach out to those members to notify them of administration correspondence and offer continued support.
News Letters - Central Committee
This subcommittee, headed by the Editor and/or Publisher, will prepare a monthly publication, the Bookmark for the Association.
- Review and, if needed, update your position’s Standard Operating Procedure.
- Utilize your SLC email account for any SLC-related communications.
- Utilize your committee’s folder in the Shared Drive for any SLC-related work.
- Work with social media to promote your committee’s work.
- Work with committee chairs to provide information for members and weave advocacy topics into every issue.
- Review Bookmark data to target opportunities for growth.
- Include membership articles, showing value of added membership, in each issue of Bookmark (ex. board and/or member spotlight feature)
- Work with the Webmaster and County Liaison to communicate county information to and from counties.
- Work with AASL, ISTE, AECT affiliate reps to share Bookmark content with these other publications, in print or online.
- Review website to maintain a strict Members Only section to archived Bookmark publications.
- Review all branded SLC documents and online communication to ensure updated branded logo and uniform appearance.
Social Media - Central Committee
This subcommittee will actively participate in forming and carrying out a social media strategy for SLC.
- Review and, if needed, update your position’s Standard Operating Procedure.
- Utilize your SLC email account for any SLC-related communications.
- Utilize your committee’s folder in the Shared Drive for any SLC-related work.
- Develop a schedule of social media communication for 3, 6, 9, 12 months. Include opportunities and events for all participation (Love a Legislator, School Library Month).
- Leverage social media team to continue monthly advocacy challenges to boost job advocacy.
- Work closely with Membership Chair to develop a marketing strategy/social media campaign to target membership.
- Work with committee chairs to promote their committee work through social media. Promote a clear communication of how committees should bring announcements to the team.
- Review all branded SLC documents and online communication to ensure updated branded logo and uniform appearance.
Website - Central Committee
The Webmaster will chair this subcommittee and maintain the SLC website. The subcommittee will post publications, the Board of Trustees minutes and all other information deemed appropriate by the Board on the website. The Webmaster will also be responsible for reporting election results to the Nominations and Election Committee Chair.
- Review and, if needed, update your position’s Standard Operating Procedure.
- Utilize your SLC email account for any SLC-related communications.
- Utilize your committee’s folder in the Shared Drive for any SLC-related work.
- Work with social media to promote your committee’s work.
- Request and edit monthly updates for all pages of SLC website that pertain to each position, committee, affiliate, etc.
- Request Executive board members to update their pictures and biographies.
- Work with the County Affiliate and Bookmark Editor to communicate county information to and from counties.
- Update the webpage and include board biographies and updated contact information (with SLC.org email) for all board members, committee members, county presidents, and affiliates.
- Streamline website content and presentation. Ensure updated appearance is uniform and inline with SLC branding.
Awards - Mr. Vinod Mishra (Chief Mentor)
This committee will oversee the selection of recipients for awards and scholarships designated by the Board of Trustees. This committee will also initiate communication with our affiliates, other organizations, and companies to arrange additional awards. This committee will work with the Conference Committee, the Spring Membership Meeting chair, and the Author/Illustrator Chair to coordinate the presentation of awards.
- As board meetings remain online during the pandemic, schedule regular meetings with your committee members between board meetings.
- Review and, if needed, update your position’s Standard Operating Procedure.
- Utilize your SLC email account for any SLC-related communications.
- Utilize your committee’s folder in the Shared Drive for any SLC-related work.
- nomination committee.
- Lead an ad-hoc committee, including a Standing Conference Committee member and Past-President, to review and revise current award applications and to develop digital applications for each award.
- Work with the Webmaster to ensure that award applications on the SLC website are up-to-date.
- Consult with the following Committee Chairs for awards:
- AECT Affiliate (Villy Award)
- Author/Illustrator Committee (Author/Illustrator of the Year)
- Intellectual Freedom Chair (IF Award)
- ISTE Affiliate (ISTE Make “IT” Happen)
- Student Affiliate (Future Leader)
- Work with the Social Media committee to promote award information to members.
- Work closely with PD Chair to ensure that all award winners turnkey their award opportunity into professional development for SLC.
- Work with the County Affiliates Liaison to promote awards at the County level.
- Review all awards documentation to ensure SLC branding is updated and has correct address.
- Work with SLC-R Chair and Membership Chair to review documentation of past recipients of awards, lifetime membership, and honorary members of SLC. Prepare a complete list to be featured on the website.
- Work with President to send award recognition letters to award recipients’ BOE members and administrators.
Enthusiastic Readers - Central Committee
This subcommittee prepares and distributes information to school and public libraries to select recipients of the Enthusiastic Reader Award.
- Review and, if needed, update your position’s Standard Operating Procedure.
- Utilize your SLC email account for any SLC-related communications.
- Utilize your committee’s folder in the Shared Drive for any SLC-related work.
- Work with Bookmark editor and social media committee to promote the program.
- Explore ways to promote this award outside of the annual conference.
Conferences & Events - Central Committee
This committee will examine, on an ongoing basis, current practices, review the conference manual, and will implement procedures to streamline the conference process in order to aid and support annual conference chairs. The committee will investigate potential conference sites and reserve conference dates. The annual conference chair will serve on this standing committee to facilitate communication.
- Review and, if needed, update your position’s Standard Operating Procedure.
- Utilize your SLC email account for any SLC-related communications.
- Utilize your committee’s folder in the Shared Drive for any SLC-related work.
- Work with social media to promote your committee’s work.
- Increase sponsorship for SLC Fall Conference.
- Work on ad-hoc committee, including Awards Chair and Past-President, to review and revise current award applications and to develop digital applications for each award.
- Work on ad-hoc committee with President-Elect and Treasurer to compare data on recent conferences to prepare a Fall Conference strategy, looking at time of year, days of the week, number of days, and venue that to determine how the conference can best serve our members and help secure our financial stability.
- Review delivery of conference information, including apps, platform, and program.
Author & Illustrators - Central Committee
This subcommittee will coordinate the participation, placement, schedule and set-up of an Authors' & Illustrators' Alley with the Conference Chair; communicate author and illustrator participation in SLC events or other events of interest to SLC members via print and online publications; create and nurture relationships with School Books authors and illustrators; solicit and arrange author and illustrator submissions for inclusion in the SLC newsletter. This committee will work with the Conference Committee, the Spring Membership Meeting chair, and the Scholarship and Awards Chair to coordinate the presentation of awards.
- Review and, if needed, update your position’s Standard Operating Procedure.
- Utilize your SLC email account for any SLC-related communications.
- Utilize your committee’s folder in the Shared Drive for any SLC-related work.
- Work with social media to promote your committee’s work.
- Work with the Bookmark editor to provide Authors for articles and make the newsletter valuable to members.
- Promote Associate Membership to Authors and Illustrators to increase memberships.
- Work with the Awards chair to select the Author/Illustrator of the year award.
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