ALA-APA Governance Task Force
Committees

Prepared by Kay Cassell
May 8, 2002

COMMITTEES

1. Overview of topic assigned

   • To investigate the committees needed by APA. This includes appointments, transferred committees, and new committees.

2. Issues related to the topic

   • One of the main issues is what committee work will be transferred to APA. This may be a portion of the work of a committee so that there is a committee in each association, a new committee or the transfer of a committee from ALA to APA.

3. Recommendations

   • Committees to be transferred — Pay Equity

   • New Committees — Certification Review Committee — This committee will develop standards for certification and develop program assessment.

   • Procedural Committees that may be needed in APA — Committee on Organization, Budget Analysis and Review Committee, Membership, Constitution and Bylaws

   • Committee work that might be transferred to APA at some future date

     • Legislation—especially work related to human resource issues such as labor law, retirement law and other human resource issues

     • Publishing—Moving parts of publishin