Selection Committee Appointments Update
Selection Committee Appointments Update
As YALSA’s President-Elect, I’m responsible for committee/jury/taskforce appointments. This fall I’ve been working on appointments for the 2011 selection committees. I’m pleased to report that I received many Committee Volunteer Forms from people who are interested in sharing their time and talents on these committees. As of right now, all the chairs to these committees have been appointed. They are as follows: Candice Mack, Great Graphic Novels Chair; Jamie Mayo, Amazing Audio Books Chair; Beth Gallaway, ALEX, Chair; Summer Hayes, Morris Chair; and Terri Snethen, BBYA Chair. Over the next two weeks I will be reviewing the remaining Committee Volunteer Forms and sending out email invitations for individuals to serve as members on these committees. Unfortunately, I have more volunteers than available spots on the committees, so not everyone will be appointed this time around. I will finish selection committee appointments by the end of November. In the mean time, if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me at kimpatton@kclibrary.org or call me at 816-701-3656.
who will be the Quick Picks Chair?
Thanks for asking Lisa, I’ll let everyone know as soon as I get confirmation.
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I am DELIGHTED to hear that Beth Gallaway will be the chair of the Alex committee next year! I have tremendous respect for her book evaluation skills after working with her on the Alex this year, and plus: she’s fun! And, you know: tactful and well-organized and enthusiastic…all those good chair-y things.
That has been true of the previous three Alex chairs, too, by the way, and this seems as good a place as any to share my gratitude with the world. Next year will be my fourth and final year on the Alex committee. The Alex was my first national committee of any kind. I knew that I would learn a lot about book evaluation and book appreciation by accepting the appointment, but I did not realize how much I would also learn from, and enjoy, the consistently good leadership of this committee. Thanks, Angela Carstensen, Priscille Dando, and Sarah Hill!
Congratulations and “yay!” and good luck, again, to Beth Gallaway, and to all of the new YALSA committee chairs!