composition of library board committees
Hi all-- Happy Friday! I have a question about board committees. Those here at Lapeer have traditionally had a staff member on them and currently, that process is causing some headaches. For me. Is staff involvement in a board committee--personnel, facilities--usual, or is the staff usually represented by the library director only? Thank you for your input. melissa -- Melissa A. Malcolm Director Lapeer District Library 201 Village West Dr S Lapeer, MI 48446 810.664.9521 extension 3113 810.664.8527 facsimile melissa@lib.lapeer.org "If liberty and justice mean anything, then access means everything." --Charles Ogletree
We rarely have any Board committees, but when we do they are just Board members (with me ex officio). Frederick J. Kirby, Library Director Benton Harbor Public Library 213 East Wall St. Benton Harbor, MI 49022 269-926-6139 (voice) 269-926-1674 (fax) libraryfjk@yahoo.com ________________________________ From: Melissa Malcolm <melissa@lib.lapeer.org> To: michlib-l@mail.mcls.org Sent: Friday, August 9, 2013 4:32 PM Subject: [Michlib-l] composition of library board committees Hi all-- Happy Friday! I have a question about board committees. Those here at Lapeer have traditionally had a staff member on them and currently, that process is causing some headaches. For me. Is staff involvement in a board committee--personnel, facilities--usual, or is the staff usually represented by the library director only? Thank you for your input. melissa -- Melissa A. Malcolm Director Lapeer District Library 201 Village West Dr S Lapeer, MI 48446 810.664.9521 extension 3113 810.664.8527 facsimile melissa@lib.lapeer.org "If liberty and justice mean anything, then access means everything." --Charles Ogletree _______________________________________________ Michlib-l mailing list Michlib-l@lists.mcls.org http://lists.mlcnet.org/mailman/listinfo/michlib-l
Hi, Melissa, We don't have staff on Board committees, and in fact I don't think it would be appropriate to do so. We do have outside community members on Board committees but never staff. And the Director is never a voting member of the Board committees. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Kay Schwartz Director Flint Public Library, 1026 E. Kearsley St., Flint, MI 48502 Phone: 810-249-2038 Fax: 810-249-2633 Email: kschwartz@fpl.info From: Melissa Malcolm [mailto:melissa@lib.lapeer.org] Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 4:33 PM To: michlib-l@mail.mcls.org Subject: [Michlib-l] composition of library board committees Hi all-- Happy Friday! I have a question about board committees. Those here at Lapeer have traditionally had a staff member on them and currently, that process is causing some headaches. For me. Is staff involvement in a board committee--personnel, facilities--usual, or is the staff usually represented by the library director only? Thank you for your input. melissa -- Melissa A. Malcolm Director Lapeer District Library 201 Village West Dr S Lapeer, MI 48446 810.664.9521 extension 3113 <tel:810.664.9521%C2%A0%20extension%203113> 810.664.8527 facsimile melissa@lib.lapeer.org "If liberty and justice mean anything, then access means everything." --Charles Ogletree
Hi Melissa, At our public library board committee meetings We have staff (besides the director) attend meetings when they have something pertinent to add. Our main example would be the Financial Committee when we have the library's finance director attend. This works out good. We don't have any staff (besides the director) automatically attending meetings of a particular committee. Alan ________________________________ From: Kay Schwartz <kschwartz@fpl.info> To: Melissa Malcolm <melissa@lib.lapeer.org>; michlib-l@mail.mcls.org Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 10:20 AM Subject: Re: [Michlib-l] composition of library board committees Hi, Melissa, We don’t have staff on Board committees, and in fact I don’t think it would be appropriate to do so. We do have outside community members on Board committees but never staff. And the Director is never a voting member of the Board committees. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Kay Schwartz Director Flint Public Library, 1026 E. Kearsley St., Flint, MI 48502 Phone: 810-249-2038 Fax: 810-249-2633 Email: kschwartz@fpl.info From:Melissa Malcolm [mailto:melissa@lib.lapeer.org] Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 4:33 PM To: michlib-l@mail.mcls.org Subject: [Michlib-l] composition of library board committees Hi all-- Happy Friday! I have a question about board committees. Those here at Lapeer have traditionally had a staff member on them and currently, that process is causing some headaches. For me. Is staff involvement in a board committee--personnel, facilities--usual, or is the staff usually represented by the library director only? Thank you for your input. melissa -- Melissa A. Malcolm Director Lapeer District Library 201 Village West Dr S Lapeer, MI 48446 810.664.9521 extension 3113 810.664.8527 facsimile melissa@lib.lapeer.org "If liberty and justice mean anything, then access means everything." --Charles Ogletree _______________________________________________ Michlib-l mailing list Michlib-l@lists.mcls.org http://lists.mlcnet.org/mailman/listinfo/michlib-l
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Alan Naldrett -
Frederick J. Kirby -
Kay Schwartz -
Melissa Malcolm