| What is the name of your committee? | Member Engagement Coordination Committee |
| Your Name | Jacqueline Toce |
| Your Email | tocej1@southernct.edu |
| If your committee is part of a section, please select it (if applicable) | |
| Which report are you submitting? | May |
| How many times did your group meet during this reporting period? | 4-6 |
| First Activity | |
| Please summarize work accomplished, decisions made, and follow-up actions determined during the past 6 months. Your summary can be a narrative or bullet points, see below for reporting on specific areas. |
Our committee planned the Volunteer Fair that took place online on March 19. We believe around 30 people attended a total of around 60 signed up and received the recording. Our committee had a slow start this year because of the problems with the Connect earlier in the year and some difficulty recruiting members to the committee. Including the chair, we have four members on our committee. During our meetings we discussed goals for the committee that could be accomplished with such a small committee. One of which is to have at least one engagement activity online this year. |
| Second Activity | |
| If your committee has a specific strategic goal assigned, update any progress made on this goal. |
I see in the strategic plan there are four goals for our committee. This is actually the first time I am seeing these goals. So, I will bring them back to the committee. We did discuss the member survey in one of our meetings and didn’t feel that it would be feasible with such low membership on the committee. |
| Third Activity | |
| Deliverables (Fill in bullet point and progress made) |
Plan Happy Hour at ALA Conference – The Core Anniversary Gala is replacing the Happy Hour this year. |
| Ongoing Work (Fill in bullet point and progress made) |
Run member survey – didn’t run survey this year, will plan for next year |
| Fourth Activity | |
| What will your group be working on for the next 6 months? Write these goals in SMART goal format. |
We hope to work on the member survey and the other items in the strategic plan. It is essential that we build the committee to more members so we can achieve any goals. |
| Fifth Activity | |
| How did your work contribute to diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, or belonging within Core or the library profession? What areas of improvement do you see for your committee or Core in these areas? |
Our Volunteer Fair was open and hopefully inspired new and current members to become involved with Core. |
| Is there anything Core could have provided during this time that would have helped your group with its work? | We are desperate for more members on our committee. It doesn't seem to me that we will be able to accomplish our charge if we don't have at least 8 or more members. We currently have 4 and one person is on leave. |
| Please provide suggestions for future education topics, initiatives, publications, resources, or other activities that could be developed based on your group’s work. | |
| Please describe anything you need to bring to the Core Board or section leadership for discussion or action at their next meeting. | I feel like we need a little more orientation for new chairs. This is the first time I'm learning of the strategic plan items that we were supposed to accomplish. |
| Please share any additional comments, concerns, or suggestions you have. | |
| Today’s Date | 05/07/2025 |