{"id":101,"date":"2013-05-07T15:57:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T22:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henare.org\/libblog\/?p=101"},"modified":"2013-05-07T16:31:35","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T23:31:35","slug":"on-committee-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henare.org\/libblog\/2013\/05\/07\/on-committee-service\/","title":{"rendered":"on committee service …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many months ago … sometime last year … I saw an announcement (I think it was through ACRL<\/a> but can’t be sure) calling for volunteers for committee service. I had never served on any ALA committee and am new to librarianship so I figured that, while I’d try, I wouldn’t expect much.<\/p>\n

I went to the online form–while I belong to ACRL, NMRT, and GLBTRT only ACRL and the Association itself was looking for volunteers for committees. There were a fair number of questions concerning one’s prior committee experience, etc., and these discouraged me since I didn’t yet have any. I did discuss briefly my professional experience (more than 25 years’ experience in progressively responsible positions in information technology serving both academia and industry), and then I pressed the button and pretty much forgot about it. Some weeks later I had heard that ACRL had something like 9000 volunteers for committee positions and so I assumed I wasn’t a good match and left it at that. I never did hear back from ACRL either way (sounds like applying for a job, right?).<\/p>\n

While I had also wanted to be considered for other ALA committee opportunities I hadn’t heard anything and assumed there just wasn’t good match.<\/p>\n

So it was a surprise to get an email in March reminding me of an email I had received in February but had overlooked … it was a committee appointment: “I hope you will accept a 2 year appointment as a Intern of the Information Technology Policy Committee.” In fact, I had missed an earlier email asking that I accept this appointment–this was a followup!<\/p>\n

The committee to which I was appointed is the Office for Information Technology Advisory Committee<\/a>\u00a0…\u00a0this committee supports the Office for Information Technology Policy<\/a> at the ALA. I was appointed as an intern<\/a>, which is something I didn’t realize existed for ALA committees. My term on the committee doesn’t start until after ALA Annual, so I’m looking forward to what this has in store for me.<\/p>\n

Combined with my other volunteer effort with the IT division of the SLA<\/a>, my remaining schoolwork, my internship, oh, and that day job, I think I’m fully subscribed for the moment.<\/p>\n

The takeaway from this is\u00a0“it takes all kinds” and “all you have to do is raise your hand.” Not so bad, is it?<\/p>\n

Tell me about your committee work! I’m interested to hear more about what I’ve signed up for …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many months ago … sometime last year … I saw an announcement (I think it was through ACRL but can’t be sure) calling for volunteers for committee service. I had never served on any ALA committee and am new to librarianship so I figured that, while I’d try, I wouldn’t expect much. I went to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[25,28,26,27],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-professional","tag-ala","tag-bite","tag-service","tag-sla"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henare.org\/libblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henare.org\/libblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henare.org\/libblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henare.org\/libblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henare.org\/libblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.henare.org\/libblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/www.henare.org\/libblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henare.org\/libblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henare.org\/libblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henare.org\/libblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}