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Committees

SLSA members serve on numerous committees within the organization and in other professional organizations as a representative of SLSA as shown below. Contact information for these members can be found in the directory.

Our Bylaws last updated 2015.

SLSA Committees

  • Advocacy  (formed 2020)
    • Members: Susan LeBlanc, Kerrie Burch, Jim Belair, Katie Bertrand, and Melissa Jacobs

 

  • Distinguished Service Award 
    • Chair: J’aimé Pfeiffer
      • Members: Sara Kardasz, Lynn Miller, and Lynn Smith
      • President, President-Elect and Past President

 

  • Nominating 
    • Chair: Susan LeBlanc
      • Members: Melissa Jacobs and TBD
      • President-Elect

 

  • SLS Consortium of Online Resources for Education (SCORE) ending June 2021 
    • Co-Chairs – Alicia Thompson and Jim Belair
      • Regional Representatives: Carl Vitevitch, Susan LeBlanc, J’aime Pfeiffer, Lynn Miller, Meghan Gartland and Nicole Waskie Laura
      • Eileen Coryat, Outside consultant

 

  • SLSA Institute Registrar
    • Katie Bertrand

 

  • Sunshine Fund contact
    • Elizabeth Hartnett

 

  • Web Site Committee (Ad hoc)
    • Chair: Carl Vitevitch
      • Members:  Cece Fuoco,  J’aime Pfeiffer, and Jim Belair
      • TBD, Outside consultant

 

 

Representatives to outside organizations

New York Alliance of Library Systems (NYALS) – Katie Bertrand, Susan LeBlanc and Colleen Sadowski

New York State Council of Educational Associations – Cecelia Fuoco

New York State Division of Library Development – J’aime Pfeiffer and TBD

New York State Education Department Regents Advisory Council on Libraries – Alicia Thompson (2024)

New York Library Association / Section of School Librarians – Colleen Sadowski

Staff/Curriculum Development Network of New York State (SCDN) – Katie Bertrand and Kerrie Burch

 

 

 

Last Updated April 14, 2021

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