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ALTA Board Nominations

Your opportunity to make an impact in the Alberta library community is here.

The Alberta Library Trustees’ Association is accepting nominations for candidates to serve in the roles of President and Area Directors.  Your keen spirit and dedication to the success of libraries across Alberta means you have the right stuff for the job.

The details:

  • Area Directors serve on the ALTA Board for a 2 year term.
  • The President serves on the ALTA Board for a 2 year term, and an additional year as Past President.
  • The nomination form is here: 2012 ALTA Board Nomination Form.
  • Nominations will be accepted until January 31, 2012.
  • Nominations can be made by any 2012 ALTA member in good standing. To renew your membership for 2012, click on the Join Us button in the top right of this page.

Positions open for election in 2012:

  • Area 2 Director
  • Area 4 Director
  • Area 6 Director
  • Area 7 Director (This is only a 1 year term due to a mid-term resignation.)
  • Area 8 Director
  • President

(Refer here for information regarding Areas.)

If you have any questions please send us an email or call the office at 780-761-ALTA.

President’s Notes: Call To Serve

One of the hallmarks of a healthy nonprofit/voluntary sector organization is its ability to transform itself every few years attracting new board members. I have served my two year term as President and the position is open for nominations. I am not offering my name for a second term as I have accomplished what I said I would do. In the last twenty months, the board addressed the need to bring a heightened sense of financial accountability to ALTA’s membership and public grant revenue, create new agendas to reasonably and effectively occupy the time of the Board, revamped outmoded communication strategies to be more interesting, timely and effective, updated ALTA bylaws, policies and regulatory reporting requirements , and deliver on long ago agreed upon deliverables in new partnerships with the provincial government. We shared advocacy strategies for municipal elections, and two provincial leadership campaigns. Professional staff are now in place to provide leadership and expertise to ALTA. And finally and by no means the least – created a provincial Trustee Education Project which attracts national attention and high regard across Alberta’s diverse library boards.

Nominations close January 31, 2012. So start thinking about your role in leading Alberta’s Trustees.

Karen Lynch,  2010-12 ALTA President