Category: Buildings and Operations Leadership Team

We’ve been quite busy:

1. facilitating the ALA program changes in our section, which resulted in three actions: 1) the sunsetting of a committee; 2) the sunsetting of an interest group; 3) investigation in order to improve understanding of one committee (the ACRL/Core Interdivisional Academic Library Facilities Survey Editorial Board). Traci then met with ACRL leadership of the committee to clarify the charge and committee makeup. There are ongoing efforts to identify Core leadership to complement.
2. met with the chairs twice, in our supporting role to their work.
3. fielded several miscellaneous questions from current committee members and prospective members.
4. reviewed and voted on Core Forum 2026 proposals for the building track.
5. attended monthly section leads meetings and disseminated information.
6. updated the Core B&O Handbook.
7. reviewed B&O website information for Core staff and provided edits/feedback.
8. met bi-weekly as a leadership team to facilitate this work.

N/A

We don’t have a charge listed here: https://www.ala.org/core/member-center/sections/buildings-and-operations/leadership-team

But our handbook lists these items:

Section Leadership Team
Charge: Manages the Core Buildings and Operations Section. Reviews and makes recommendations for breakout sessions, poster sessions, and pre-conferences to be included in Core Forum. May add or remove committees and interest groups to the Section. Ensures appointments are made to the B&O Committees. Conducts annual section meetings and quarterly check-ins with committee chairs. Often referred to as “Section Leads”.

Deliverables
Attends monthly Section Leader meetings (1 leadership member is sufficient; however, all may attend). COMPLETE
Ensures B&O Committee Chairs are being provided with Core level information shared by the Board and at Section Leader meetings. COMPLETE
Holds at least 2 B&O Chair Meetings per year COMPLETE
Holds at least 1 all B&O members meeting per year (at ALA Annual) PENDING
Creates annual plan for section content development and projects {ask Core staff: what would this look like?} OUTSTANDING QUESTION TO CORE STAFF
Makes appointments to section committees COMPLETE
Encourages chairs to hold meetings with their committee members COMPLETE
Makes recommendations for representatives to ALA groups and/or external groups, as needed COMPLETE
Reviews Core Forum proposals and makes recommendations to Core Forum Committee. COMPLETE

We will look at the new template and make suggestions when we meet in early June.

We are still working to identify a co-chair for the ACRL/Core Interdivisional Academic Library Facilities Survey Editorial Board, and then to help them line up 2 members, ideally before the Annual meeting. We have reached out to 3 individuals; two declined and one was not responsive.

We are waiting on Core staff input into the questions posted to them about the B&O handbook, and can then finalize the updates and re-publish to committees, ideally right after Annual for the new chairs and committee members.

Solicit Core staff input on the questions posted to them about the B&O handbook and then finalize the updates and re-publish to committee chairs after Annual.