The Chapter Manual, with guidance from SLA HQ, was first written in 1953 as an aide for officers and committee chairs. SLA Illinois is a living and breathing organization and things change. The Chapter Manual has changed along with our processes and procedures over the years, most recently with an overhaul that included a name change to Recommended Practices.

 

Jan Chindlund and Carol Berger and the SLA Illinois Executive Board began a herculean effort in 2004-2005 to review and revise the existing SLA Illinois Chapter Manual in accourdance with revised guidance from SLA HQ. Reviews and edits continued in 2005-2006 with Bobbie Goering, Jan Chindlund, Carol Berger and the Executive Board. In Spring 2006, Marcella Dulka received a 100 page document that had been edited, re-edited, revised, re-revised, and otherwise marked up and turned it into a finished product with consistent fonts, headings, and style.

Chapter offices, committee chairs, all interested parties: this is your cookbook. A section has been included for all activities listing responsibilities and procedures, expected reports, expenses, and due dates.

Next steps: Those of us who have lived through the revision and approval process of all 100 pages at one time are determined that history shall not repeat itself. Bonnie Sebby & Marcella Dulka have volunteered to staff the Recommended Practices Committee (see page 27) which continually updates the document throughout the year and requests review and suggestions for change from the committees once a year. The 2005-2006 SLA Illinois Executive Board has not approved commandments that live on in stone; this is our guide, our knowledge, that we are managing and passing from committee chair to committee chair.

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