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NASIG Working Calendar

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November   

Board
  • Contact assigned committees to share Board decisions from Fall Board meeting and discuss action agenda items for midwinter meeting
  • Attend Fall Board meeting (scheduled for October or November)
  • Review PPC proposals and provide comment
President
  • Chair Board meeting (may be held in October)
  • Review minutes
  • Begin follow up on action items from Board meeting
  • Review Strategic Plan for items to be discussed at January Board meeting
Vice President
  • Review minutes
  • Revise the volunteer form and send changes to NASIG webspinner to update
Past President
  • Review minutes
Secretary
  • Prepare minutes of the Board meeting, send 1st draft to President, Past President, Vice President for review; second draft to Board for review and final copy to Newsletter Editor-in-Chief (Feb. 1 deadline)
  • Send key action items and due dates to Board list ASAP
  • Keep track of any Board decisions made via board-l; these will be added to next minutes
  • Update NASIG Working Calendar
Treasurer
  • Prepare final budget after Board meeting and submit copy to Newsletter Editor-in-Chief (Feb. 1 deadline)
Conference
Coordinato
r
  • Complete any remaining contract issues for confirmed conference sites
  • Any signed contracts should be sent to President and Treasurer
COMMITTEES
All Committees
  • LSOC begins to assist A & R in announcing/promoting the awards/grants via
    library school ambassadors
CPC
  • After Board meeting, obtain final conference schedule from PPC
  • Consult with  Pub/PR on conference PR
  • Work with PPC to get final conference schedule posted to website
D&D
  • Send out renewal reminders in early January
ECC
  • Work with A&R on mounting of grant and award applications and announcements on blast messaging, What's New, NASIG blog and NASIG-L
Newsletter
  • Gather and prepare submissions for Dec. issue
  • Work on December issue
N&E
  • Nominee position statements and CVs are due. Chair places nominee documents on secure web venue for committee review (Nov. 16)
  • Review candidate profile sheets
PPC
  • Review all submitted proposals from the Second Call for Proposals
  • Create a potential program depending on speaker contact
  • Assign speaker liaisons
  • Confirm with speakers on their willingness to present a program
  • Estimate speaker reimbursement needs for Board liaison and Treasurer
  • Submit final schedule and program to the Board by end of November
  • Check with Proceedings Editors on due date for papers
  • Update speaker letters and forms
  • Submit Newsletter article to Editor
Proceedings
  • Continue the editing process, referring to the Proceedings Editors' Manual as needed
  • Remind Board Liaison to send out the call for a new Proceedings editor. The suggested application deadline is mid-December or early January