Committee Work 101
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This presentation, given at the 2015 Virginia Library Association Annual Conference, answers the following questions: How can you use committee work to get hired? What should you expect from committee work? How do I get on a committee? How can serving on committees grow my career? Download slides in order to see speaker notes.
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- Speaker bios: Served on lots of VLA, ALA, and ALA round table/division committees. Have also appointed people to committees as NMRT VP Think-pair-share: why are you interested in getting involved on committees?
- Grow your career Hired at CCPL because of committee work/association involvement High-profile ACRL/other committees The best way to create change Use fresh-out-of-grad-school enthusiasm!
- Pass out sticky notes
- Nominating committees: learn the ins and outs of how to get elected into an office Grant committees: sort of the same thing—learn how to get awarded scholarships, like for conferences Book award committees: really competitive to get on the big-name ones like Carnegie; have to read dozens or hundreds of books! Ask: any other committee types you’ve heard about/worked on/interested in?
- workloads vary by committee you can ask around in advance of volunteering to figure out what the workload will be and decide whether to pursue don’t be afraid to say yes to things even if they’re not 100% your interest; when you’re beginning to build your resume, you can’t be too picky
- do: contact your committee chair don’t think you’re going to bother them! better to keep them in the loop to prevent possible problems don’t: sign up for a committee and then disappear People will remember this and you could be blackballed in the future from serving on other committees/running for office.
- do: resign from the committee No one will hold it against you, though they will if you just stop answering emails. do: go above and beyond (if you’re interested and your workload allows!) by volunteering to lead a subcommittee’s work, take on a particularly onerous task, etc. this will endear you to your committee chair and put you in a really good position to be placed in a leadership position the following year
- can’t figure out how to join? reach out to committee member/chair and ask
- networking opportunities Amanda Liss/Credo NMRT offices – most people running for ALA NMRT office this year are people I knew were good chairs last year