SUNYLA Committees

Membership Development

  • organizes and conducts membership recruitment

Questions? Contact Wendy West (Albany), chair

 

Personnel Policies Committee

  • The Personnel Policies Committee is concerned with the development, coordination and implementation of the policies, procedures, and standards of appointment and other terms of employment of SUNY librarians.
  • The Committee conducts, prints, and distributes a SUNY Library Salary Survey, generally every two years, with the time of the final report distribution being such that the data may be useful in contract negotiations.
  • The Committee conducts exit surveys of librarians leaving SUNY libraries and reports on the responses to this survey back to the Board and Council.

Questions? Contact Pamela O'Sullivan (Brockport), chair

 

Professional Development

  • recommends and develop programs of continuing education for librarians
  • concerns itself with principles and standards for college and university libraries
  • supports professional endeavors in the wider communities

Professional Development Grants Program is part of the Professional Development Committee.

The Professional Development Committee sponsors the following awards at the Annual Conference:

Questions? Contact Darryl Coleman (Fredonia), chair

 

Publications Committee

  • publishes our Newsletter and any other publications of the Association

Questions? Contact Ellen McCabe (Cortland), chair.

 

Technology Users Group (TUG)

  • serves as a focus for the exchange of information about automation and information technology
  • encourages discussion and education within and between interest groups of SUNY librarians and staff
  • maintains formal lines of communication with the SUNY Office of Library and Information Services (OLIS)
  • arranges the LiSUG Conference

Questions? Contact Ken Fujiuchi (Albany), chair

 

Working Group for Information Literacy

  • promote library user instruction and information literacy at SUNY libraries and the exchange of information about library instruction;
  • support the development, coordination, and assessment of information literacy programs;
  • recommend, offer and/or sponsor programs and educational opportunities for professional development and growth in library instruction, information literacy and 21st century information fluency.

SUNYLA's Working Group for Information Literacy (WGIL) has a wiki at http://sunylawgil.wordpress.com/.

Questions? Contact Dana Longley (ESC), chair.

The WGIL Room - an information literacy podcast by Carleen Huxley, Dana Longley, and Mark McBride.