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LaSoMi
Organization Documents:
Governing Documents:
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LaSoMi Governing Document:
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Governing Document Memorandum from SLA - details
the change from Chapter Bylaws to new Governing Document:
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LaSoMi Chapter Guidelines (to be created)
Annual Reports:
Explanation
of the new Governing Documents:
"Following
the Association Bylaws revision in 2003, units within SLA are no longer
required to have Bylaws, but rather Governing Documents. SLA's Executive
Board has approved a new model Governing Document for both Divisions
and Chapters. The new Governing Document will replace all existing
Division and Chapter Bylaws. The point of this revision is to help
simplify the administration of SLA units. These documents
have been streamlined to allow for greater
flexibility in governing Divisions and Chapters,
such that these documents should need no amending. However, defining
precisely how this Governing Document will play out in practice will
be done within the scope of a new Recommended Practices document to be
created by each Division and Chapter which will, in
effect, become the procedures manual for that
unit. The advantage of this separate procedures manual,
is that a unit can revise and edit this at any time, whereas the governing
document must go through a more formal amendment process with final
approval by the Executive Board. Again, this should not be necessary,
however, due to the broad, streamlined nature of the
Governing Document and the built-in flexibility
for operating within its stipulations.
A model Recommended Practices is, as
of this writing, still under development by the
SLA Governance Task Force, but they expect to have a copy
in our hands by the end of March. This will provide a basis from which
we can work as we create our own policies and procedures,
applicable to our particular practices and
circumstances. Creation of this supplementary procedures
manual will be a priority in the coming months." (03/17/04)
Bill
Armstrong
LaSoMi
President
notwwa@lsu.edu
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