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All Member Business Meeting for October 19, 2020
Location: Zoom (Check your e-mail for the link)
Time: 2:00 PM CDT

1. Call to order
2. Approve agenda – motions/voice vote (See e-mail)
3. Approval of ILA/ACRL Meeting minutes: October Business Meeting
4. Treasurer’s Report
a. A message from Sec/Treasurer Lindsay Healy
5. Committee and Representative Reports
● Awards
o A message from committee chair Julia Salting

● College & Career Readiness
o A message from committee chair Katie Hassman

The latest installment of "Keeping Up in Iowa With..." from the Professional Development Committee features Amandajean Freking Nolte, Information Literacy Librarian at Wartburg College, talking about online instruction (during a period of global crisis).

The Iowa chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries stands with the Iowa Library Association in support and solidarity with those demonstrating for racial justice. Black Lives Matter, and it is incumbent upon on all of us to work to create an equitable and explicitly anti-racist society. Let us also remember to center Black voices and concerns, both at this moment and as this work continues into the future. Libraries and higher education, as formal social institutions, have historically often reinforced inequity and oppression in spite of our stated values of access and inclusion. Below you will find the ILA letter of support for Black Lives Matter and social and racial justice, and the organization's diversity statment.

Back in February (a.k.a. Pre-COVID times), the Spring Conference Committee solicited feedback on the future of the ILA/ACRL and IPAL Spring Joint Conference for 2021 and beyond. Thank you to all who participated! Your input helps our organizations to serve members more meaningfully.