MAALL Standing Committees: 2025-2026
Bylaws Committee
Charge: Propose and submit changes, additions, and deletions to MAALL Bylaws
Board Liaison: Deanne Fix
Chair: TBD
Members: Kristen Wolek Lee Little Steve Probst DEI Committee
Charge: Responsible for ensuring that MAALL is fulfilling the responsibilities to promote and foster diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) among the membership and leadership within the organization and the profession.
Board Liaison: Deb Grimm Chair: Gail Wechsler Members: Le'Shawn Turner Matt Timko
Charge: Prepare the upcoming Annual Meeting program and recommend other educational possibilities for MAALL.
Board Liaison and Chair: Ariel Newman Members: Rebecca Lutkenhaus Grants Committee Charge: Establish criteria for award of grants, publicize availability, and select recipients. (Note: Members of the committee cannot apply for MAALL grants.) Board Liaison: Heidi Frostestad Chair: Tamara Rogers Members: Library School Liaison Board Liaison: Deb Grimm Members: Franky Newcomb Susan Urban Lauren Yaple | Local Arrangements Committee Board Liaison: Lexi Brennan Chair: Barbara Ginzburg Members: Thomas Sneed Lauren Yaple Charge: Encourage law librarians, law library staff, and library school students in our region to join MAALL in coordination with the Public Relations Committee; welcome new members; ensure that the MAALL directory and discussion list are accurate; and contact members who fail to renew. Board Liaison: Heidi Frostestad Vivian Eldridge Nominating Committee Board Liaison and Chair: Matt Timko Members: Franky Newcomb Rachel Ford Steve Probst Public Relations Committee Charge: Submit announcements for inclusion in AALL Spectrum and prepare MAALL display for AALL exhibit hall. Board Liaison: Crystal Bauer Chair: Shannon Kemen Members: Website Committee Board Liaison: Crystal Bauer Chair: Rachel Ford Members: |
MAALL History Committee (ad hoc)
Charge: Review list of MAALL officers and posted MAALL history.
Board Liaison: Matt Timko
Chair: Sarajean Petite
Members:
Karen Wallace
Laura Dixon Caldwell
Lee Little
Macy Love
Cross-Institutional Task Force
Co-chairs:Allison Reeve Davis & Eugene Giudice
Vision/Strategic Planning Committee
Charge: Develop goals that MAALL can accomplish over the next three years. Working from the 2016-19 Strategic Plan, the Task Force created the 2020-2023 Plan.
Board Liaison: Ariel Newman
Chair: Paul Callister
Members:
Laura Dixon-Caldwell
Matt Timko
MAALL Markings Editorial Board and Columnists
Charge: Publish the quarterly newsletter, MAALL Markings, on the Web and explore ways of expanding its content.
Board Liaison: Matt Timko
Editor-in-Chief: Therese Clarke Arado
Associate Editor: Sarah Kammer
Layout Editor: Amy Backes
State Member News Editor: Rachel Ford
State Member News Liaisons:
Melissa Serfass (AR), Rebecca Lutkenhaus (IA), Lindsey Carpino (IL), Arfa Kaiser (NE), Deanne Fix (MO), Susan Urban (OK), Sarah Kammer (SD), Leslie Behroozi (IN, ND, OH, TN, & WI)
Columnists: Gail Wechsler, Eugene Giudice
Task Force: MAALL Technology (on hiatus)
Task Force: UELMA Passage in MAALL States (on hiatus)
Charge: Monitor and advocate for UELMA passage in MAALL states.