Volume 25, Supplement No. 1, Summer 2008

 

Co-Editors: Marlys Brunsting, UW-Green Bay and Karen Dunn, UW-Madison

 

In this issue:

 

WAAL Board Candidates for 2009 Calendar of Meetings & Events
Submitting Your Ballot Education & Enrichment Opportunities

 

 


WAAL Board Candidates for 2009

 

--Karen Jander, Nominations Committee Chair

 

I would like to thank the 2009 candidates for running for WAAL Vice Chair/Chair Elect and WAAL Secretary.  It has become increasingly difficult to find people to run for WAAL offices despite going to an open nomination process.  The Nomination Committee would like to encourage WAAL members to think about running for office and serving on the WAAL Board.  We need your commitment and leadership to remain a vital organization.

 

Vice Chair/Chair Elect

Secretary

 

 

Vice Chair/Chair Elect Candidate: Jim Buckett

 

Jim Buckett is Head of Collections Access and Technical Services at Steenbock Memorial on the UW-Madison campus. Jim recently served as a Co-Chair for the 2006/2007 WAAL Conference Planning Committee. He followed up his conference planning experience by participating in a session called Library Conference Planning 101: Backs to the WAAL at the WLA 2007 conference. He has had several presentations and/or poster sessions at WLA and WAAL over the last several years.  Jim has served on numerous library committees and was Co-chair of the ALA RUSA.STARS Cooperative Collection Development Committee in 2006/2007.

 

Vice Chair/Chair Elect Candidate
Jim Buckett

I'm honored to have my name placed in nomination for the position of WAAL Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect in 2009. Most of my library career was spent working at the Wisconsin Historical Society Library after graduating from UW-Madison in 1977. Moving to the General Library System on the Madison campus in the year 2000 coincides with my initial involvement in WAAL and WLA, and has provided me with broader opportunities to meet and interact with my colleagues across the state. Giving back to WAAL what it has provided me in terms of professionalism, collaboration and learning is why I would like to serve in this position. Increasing WAAL membership is one of several objectives I'd like to see accomplished if elected. Surveying the WAAL membership itself to hear what they want from their professional organization is also worth investigating. Can we increase the level of networking, learning and resource sharing outside of our excellent annual conference?  What do members see as the advantages (or limitations) to WAAL membership?  WAAL is an active community of librarians that provides for a diversity of interests and needs; technology, collection management, information literacy, public services, outreach, liaison and marketing. Facilitating this organization's dynamic existence would be a challenge and a privilege.
J. Buckett, photo

 

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Secretary Candidates: Teresa Grimm and Rita Mitchell

 

Teresa Grimm is a Senior Library Technician at the Waukesha County Technical College. She has been the WLA Support Staff Section Secretary and Newsletter Editor from 2004 through 2008. She has assisted with the annual support staff conferences. From 2002-2005, she served as the Waukesha County Education Support Personnel President. In this position she served on numerous college-wide committees providing direction for strategic planning and accreditation among other things.   

 

Rita Mitchell is a Distance Learning/Reference Librarian at Cardinal Stritch University.  She is a member of ALA, ACRL, WLA, and WAAL.  She participated in the WLA: Library User Education Roundtable as the Member-at-Large in 2006.

 

Secretary Candidate

Teresa Grimm

Secretary Candidate

Rita Mitchell
T. Grimm, photo
R. Mitchell, photo

“Thank you for the opportunity to be a candidate for WAAL secretary. I believe the experience I have gained as Secretary of WLA's Support Staff Section will help me be a strong addition to the WAAL leadership team. I have worked in an academic library for over thirteen years, and I am eager to share my time and abilities to continue WAAL's tradition of being a strong advocate for academic library personnel. I have an MLS degree from UW-Milwaukee. My work in a small academic library has given me experience and insight into many facets of librarianship. My work background includes library instruction, cataloging, circulation, reference and serials management. I am especially interested in continuing to enhance the number of support personnel participating in WAAL. I would appreciate your vote.”

“As an academic librarian with less than five years of professional experience, I welcome the opportunity to serve as WAAL secretary. Membership in WAAL has been very beneficial to my personal and professional growth and I value the collaboration and exchange of ideas WAAL offers through programming and committees. I look forward to encouraging other new academic librarians to utilize all that WAAL offers and opening the door to be more active in a vital professional organization.”

 

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Submitting Your Ballot

 

DEADLINE: Return ballots must be postmarked no later than October 1, 2008
           
RETURN YOUR BALLOT TO: 

Nominations/Elections Committee,
Wisconsin Library Association,
5250 East Terrace Drive, Suite A1,
Madison, WI 53718-8345

 

Members of the 2008 WAAL Nominations Committee are Linda Hartig and Karen Jander

 

Although ballots have been mailed to members by the WLA Office, a ballot can be printed from this site, if needed:

Print Ballot (PDF)

 

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Calendar of Meetings & Events

 

WLA Annual Conference November 4-8, 2008, Madison Marriott West, Middleton
ACRL 14th National Conference March 12-15, 2009, Seattle

 

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Education & Enrichment Opportunities

 

CCBC Calendar & Events SOIS Podcasts
e-Learning from ACRL SOIS Professional Development Institute
SLIS Continuing Education, Online Short Courses Wisconsin State Law Library Classes and Tours

 

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