To all members of AJL -- Is it time to remind everyone that this is a volunteer organization and the Board & Council are composed of hard working librarians, who take on the time-consuming burden of managing AJL without any financial remuneration and without any dreams of glory, either? It's difficult enough to find members who are willing to take on the burdens of Board membership and it will soon be impossible if officers are now going to be subject to castigating e-mails from others who view any mistakes as usurpation of power.
The old and new forms of the constitution were posted on the website about the same time members received the notification of changes. All changes are marked in color. These changes are really mostly in the nature of "housekeeping." Several different board members have addressed your questions via HaSafran, several times by now. Yes, the Board should have let members know a few months ago that they were considering updating the constitution and should have included a little more information in the mailing. Yes, an official response to questions should have been posted more speedily on HaSafran. This is hardly criminal neglect. Let's vote to clean up these few issues in the constitution and move on to other issues. Merrily Hart Librarian, Siegal College, Cleveland Ohio (a former officer of AJL who is no longer on Council) Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
