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ASCLA Board of Directors and Executive Committee

The Executive Committee is comprised of the past president, the president and the vice-president/president-elect, and the ALA divisional councilor. The executive committee is responsible for management of the Association between annual and midwinter meetings of ALA. The Division Executive Director is an ex officio member of the committee. All decisions of the committee shall be reported to the Board of Directors at its next regular meeting.

The Board of Directors has general responsibility for the affairs of the Association. Per the blylaws: "It shall consider and make all decisions pertaining to the Association as a whole at annual and other meetings, or between such meetings. This will include decisions on budget, programs, projects, and adoption of rules and regulations for the conduct of the Association and its subordinate units, such rules and regulations not to contravene the Constitution and Bylaws of the American Library Association and these bylaws. The Board of Directors is authorized and directed to create such sections, membership activity groups, discussion groups, committees, and other subordinate units as may be required to discharge properly the responsibilities and functions of the Association, and to disestablish any such group when its usefulness or reason for being has ceased."

Executive Committee roster  Board of Directors roster

ASCLA Board

ASCLA Board of Directors
Front, L-R: Marilyn Irwin (Past President), Barbara Mates (President), Sara Laughlin, Carol Ann Desch (President-Elect)
Back, L-R: Glennor Shirley, Jonathan Reynolds, Rayhe Puckett, Kathleen O'Connor, Linda Lord, Kendall Wiggin, Jean Porter



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