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Message from the President re: CLA Restructuring
Greetings
Everyone,
Firstly
I would like to thank everyone who contributed
to our fantastic Annual General Meeting earlier this month at the Arts and
Letters club, particularly the executive who organized the event. It was a
great evening with lots of shared memories and
insight about the importance of CASLIS
and CASLIS Toronto in our professional community.
With that
in mind, I would like to take this opportunity to look to the future of
the chapter. Having just taken on
the presidency of the organization, I am about
to step into some uncharted waters. In March, the CLA
issued a press release indicating financial
challenges at the national level, and informing its membership of a
significant restructuring in reaction to this. At the time, the local
chapters and divisions were told to pursue
“business as usual” until the June 30, 2010.
With this deadline fast approaching, it would appear that we are soon to
begin conducting business as unusual.
In short, it is highly likely that CASLIS
Toronto, in its current form, will likely be no more as a result of this
restructuring.
The full
CLA press release can be seen on our
blog at:
http://caslistoronto.blogspot.com/2010/03/message-to-cla-members-cla-presidents.html
Details
from CLA have been slow to
emerge, but many of these changes
will likely come to a head at the 2010 Annual
General Meeting in Edmonton next week.
I, along with my colleagues Maggie Weaver and Lily Mac will be attending
the conference,
as well as
both the CASLIS and CLA AGMs as representatives of our Toronto Chapter.
As I stressed at our AGM, my current priority as President is
communication with the
membership. This message will be cross posted
to our blog, listserv and website, as will all further information as we
receive it; expect extra activity on the blog and listserv in the coming
weeks. Additionally, I invite members to contact me directly
with have questions or comments which they
would like to see represented by us in
Edmonton next month. My email and telephone number
can be found below.
Regards,
Eileen Lewis President CASLIS Toronto (t) 416-325-6294
(e) eileen_lewis@ontla.ola.org
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Fred Stoss,
Associate Librarian at the University at Buffalo, green libraries
presentation (April 15, 2010) available (sustainable/green
and
collaboration).
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Kelly Lyons,
Associate Professor, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
"Project Management 101"
presentation (March 10, 2010)
available.
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Vicki Whitmell,
Legislative Assembly of Ontario “Leadership, Skills and Knowledge: How We
Can Prepare Ourselves and Our Staff for the Future”
presentation (November 4, 2009)
available.
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Silverton,
Toronto Web Design & SEO Company,
"What does the future of the Web hold?"
presentation (October 15, 2009)
available.
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