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ILA Executive Board

NAME / TITLE	COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS	TERM
President
Pamela Van Kirk 708 N. I St. Monmouth, IL 61462 phone: (309) 734-3922 e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it	Advocacy Committee Conference Program Committee 2012 Executive Committee Finance Committee Public Policy Committee Ex officio, Illinois State Library Advisory Committee	2011-2014
Vice President/President-Elect
Su Erickson Robert Morris University 905 Meridian Lake Dr. Aurora, IL 60504 phone: 630-375-8209 fax: 630-375-8193 e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it	Advocacy Committee Conference Program Committee 2013 Executive Committee Finance Committee Public Policy Committee	2012-2015
Immediate Past President
Lynn Elam Algonquin Area Public Library District 2600 Harnish Dr. Algonquin, IL 60102 phone: (847) 458-6069 fax: (847) 458-9370 e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it	Advocacy Committee Conference Program Committee 2011 Executive Committee Finance Committee Public Policy Committee Ex officio, Illinois State Library Advisory Committee	2010-2013
Treasurer
Leslie Warren American Bar Association Division of Public Education321 N. Clark St. Chicago, IL 60654-7598 phone: 312-988-5737 fax: 312-988-5494 e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it	Executive Committee Finance Committee Fundraising Committee	2010-2013
Directors-at-Large
Laura Barnes Illinois Sustainable Technology Center 1 E. Hazelwood Dr. Champaign, IL 61820 phone: (217) 333-8957 fax: (217) 333-8944 e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it	ILA Reporter Advisory Committee GODORT	2010-2013
Cynthia L. Fuerst Vernon Area Public Library District 300 Olde Half Day Rd. Lincolnshire, IL 60069 phone: 847-634-3650 fax: 847-634-8449 e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it	Finance Committee Reaching Forward Forum for Library Support Staff	2009-2012
Kate Hall New Lenox Public Library District 120 Veterans Pkwy. New Lenox, IL 60451-2390 phone: (815) 485-2605 fax: (815) 485-2548 e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it	Finance Committee Leadership Forum Youth Services Forum	2011-2014
Jeanne Hamilton Charleston Carnegie Public Library 712 Sixth St. Charleston, IL 61920 phone: 217-345-4913 fax: 217-348-5616 e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it	Intellectual Freedom Committee Young Adult Services Forum	2011-2014
Amanda McKay Helen Matthes Library 100 E. Market Effingham, IL 62401 phone: 217-342-2464 fax: 217-342-2413 e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it	Librarians for Social Responsibility Forum Membership Committee	2010-2013
Jeanne Hamilton Charleston Carnegie Public Library 712 Sixth St. Charleston, IL 61920 phone: (217) 345-4913 fax: (217) 348-5616 e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it	iREAD Committee	2011-2014
Scott E. Pointon 2011-2014 White Oak Library District Romeoville Branch Library 201 W. Normantown Rd. Romeoville, IL 60446-4226 phone: 815-552-4226 fax: 815-552-4297 e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it	Resources & Technical Services Forum	2011-2014
Carol E. Reid Heartland Community College Library 1500 W. Raab Rd. Normal, IL 61761 phone: 309-268-8279 fax: 309-268-7989 e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it	Awards Committee Public Library Forum	2012-2015
Becky Robinson Galesburg High School 1135 W. Fremont St. Galesburg, IL 61401-2499 phone: 309-343-4146 fax: 309-343-8896 e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it	iREAD	2012-2015
Leora Siegel Chicago Botanic Garden Lenhardt Library 1000 Lake Cook Rd. Glencoe, IL 60022 phone: 847-835-8202 fax: 847-835-6885 e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it	Cultural and Racial Diversity Committee Finance Committee	2012-2015
Ellen Sutton College of DuPage Library 425 Fawell Blvd. Glen Ellyn, IL 60137 phone: 630-942-2659 fax: 630-858-8757 e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it	Illinois Association of College & Research Libraries Forum Marketing Committee	2011-2014
Susan L. Westgate Carol Stream Public Library 616 Hiawatha Dr. Carol Stream, IL 60188 phone: 630-213-5024 fax: 630-344-6101 e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it	Best Practices Committee Reference Services Forum	2012-2015
ALA Councilor
Denise Zielinski Joliet Public Library, Black Road Branch 3395 Black Rd. Joliet, IL 60431 phone: 815-846-6500 fax: 815-744-7208 e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it	Advocacy Committee Library Trustee Forum	2012-2015
Ex Officio
Anne B. Craig Illinois State Library 300 S. Second St. Springfield, IL 62701-1796 phone: (217) 782-2994 phone: 800-665-5576 fax: (217) 785-4326 e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Robert P. Doyle Illinois Library Association 33 W. Grand Ave., Ste. 401 Chicago, IL 60654-6799 phone: (312) 644-1896 fax: (312) 644-1899 e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

ILA Executive Board members should:

1. Understand and support the association's mission.
2. Employ the executive director, work in cooperation with him/her, and participate in his/her evaluation.
3. Prepare for and attend board meetings regularly; actively participate, including service on committees, as an officer, and as a board liaison to assigned units within the association.
4. Engage in development of goals and plans for the association, review progress, and evaluate outcomes.
5. Act as a trustee of the association's money, working to provide adequate resources and overseeing responsible expenditure of funds.
6. Participate in the ILA fundraising activities and personally support those activities.
7. Represent the association as a whole and communicate regularly with membership from various constituencies.
8. Set policies which further the association's mission, while ensuring legal and ethical integrity and accountability to membership.
9. Share expertise, contribute to decision-making, and support decisions of the board.
10. Complete assignments in a timely fashion.
11. Enhance the association's public standing.

Each ILA Executive Board member has a liaison relationship with several ILA committees and/or forums. The purpose of the liaison relationship is to facilitate communication and to give each ILA unit an informed voice at the board level to represent its activities, issues, and viewpoints. It is mutually beneficial that the liaison relationship be actively cultivated between the board member and the forum or committee leaders. The following suggestions are advanced to establish a strong relationship:

Committee/Forum Leader
• Put the board liaison on your roster so meeting reminders, agendas, and documents will be sent automatically to the liaison.
• Call the board liaison with questions that involve ILA policies, goals, and finances. (Procedural questions are probably best answered by the ILA staff.)
• Send the board liaison a copy of the unit’s activity report three weeks before ILA Executive Board meetings. (Send a copy to the ILA office as well for distribution to other board members.)
• Discuss upcoming plans with the board liaison in the early stages of development to benefit from useful advice about policy issues that may affect the activity.
• Invite your board liaison to your meetings.
• At the end of the term of office, turn over minutes and other significant documents to the new committee/forum leader.

Board Liaisons
• Keep informed of ILA policies, goals, and financial guidelines to serve as a resource to units.
• Stay on top of ILA activities across-the-board to assist units in planning, avoiding overlap activities and date conflicts.
• Attend unit meetings (in person or electronically) if possible, but especially if the unit leader seeks the liaison’s assistance to work on a specific issue.
• Ensure that committee chair or forum manager submit the report of their activities in a timely manner (schedule is listed on the report form).
• Monitor, encourage, and assist the committee or forum to meet both their goals and those goals assigned within the ILA Strategic Plan.
• Be an informed voice for the unit at ILA Executive Board meetings. Share board documents and news with units.

Financial expectations
Board members are responsible for their own travel, meals, and lodging. Meetings are held in various cities around the state and frequently in the following locations: Bloomington, Springfield, Joliet, Shorewood, and Chicago. For the July orientation meeting, the board members should expect to stay for up to two nights in a nearby motel unless they are within a short driving distance of the meeting location. Board meetings generally last from 10:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. but may start earlier and last longer if there is an overly full agenda.

Directors on non-profit boards are usually expected to contribute financially to the organization as a show of their support. As leaders of the association, ILA Executive Board members are encouraged, whenever financially able, to make a minimum annual donation of $100 to the ILA Endowment Fund. Donations can be made directly, contributed from fundraisers or honoraria, or solicited from other sources.

Conflict of interest
All board members are required to sign a ‘Non-Conflict of Interest’ statement at the beginning of each year of their term.

Meetings
The ILA Executive Board meets five times each fiscal year. Meeting schedules for the ILA Executive and Finance Committees and for other committees and forums vary.