MAALL Standing Committees: 2024-2025
Bylaws Committee
Charge: Propose and submit changes, additions, and deletions to MAALL Bylaws
Board Liaison: Deanne Fix
Chair: Janet McKinney
Members: Creighton Miller 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: Matt Timko Chair: Gail Wechsler Members: Laura Dixon Caldwell Matt Timko
Charge: Prepare the upcoming Annual Meeting program and recommend other educational possibilities for MAALL.
Board Liaison and Chair: Lexi Brennan 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: Jennifer Mart-Rice Chair: Miriam Murphy Members: Philip Johnson Janet McKinney Creighton Miller Tamara Lakeisha Rogers Library School Liaison Board Liaison: Deb Grimm Members: Allison Reeve Davis Austin Hankins Shannon Kemen Ashley Russell | Local Arrangements Committee Board Liaison: Matt Timko Chair: Joe Custer Members: TBA Membership Committee Board Liaison: Jennifer Mart-Rice Vivian Eldridge Rebecca Lutkenhaus Nominating Committee Board Liaison: Le'Shawn Turner Chair: Le'Shawn Turner Members: Debbie Mayfield Franky Newcomb 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: Ashley Russell Members: Tamara Lakeisha Rogers Franky Young 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: Karen Wallace
Members:
Vivian Eldridge
Joe Custer
Cross-Institutional Task Force
Co-chairs: Allison Reeve Davis & Eugene Giudice
Task Force: Vision Planning
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: Lexi Brennan
Chair: Benjamin Keele
Members:
Laura Dixon-Caldwell
Sarah Maxwell Leckband
Allison Reeve-Davis
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: Hyla Bondareff
State Member News Liaisons:
Melissa Serfass (AR), Rebecca Lutkenhaus (IA), Lindsey Carpino (IL), Pam Crawford (KS), Stefanie Pearlman (NE), Deanne Fix (MO), Susan Urban (OK), Sarah Kammer (SD), Leslie Behroozi (IN, ND, OH, TN, & WI)
Columnists: Gail Wechsler, Matt Timko, Autumn Collier
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.