Membership Development Committee

Membership Development Committee – May 2020 Report

The group met 4-6 times this quarter.

Recent Activities

First Activity
The committee coordinated a joint LITA/LLAMA/ALCTS "happy hour" during Midwinter at Roy Pitz Barrel House, led by Pauline Stacchini. The event was well attended, attendees represented a mix of divisions, and received positive feedback.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Member Engagement, Organizational Stability and Sustainability

Second Activity
The committee's Vice Chair, Anne Pepitone, led a series of LITAchat events beginning in April that covered both lighter-hearted topics, such as favorite zoom backgrounds, more serious topics, such as self care and morale management during alternate operations, and professional development topics, such as tools that aid productivity working from home. Anne's ability to make these social media enabled discussions interactive, fun but also earnest in their tone made them a success.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Education and Professional Development, Member Engagement

Third Activity
The committee hosted a virtual "happy hour" event for LITA/ALCTS/LLAMA divisions in June, alongside ALA's virtual annual conference. The event was held using Zoom and was co-hosted by Anne Pepitone and Ida Joiner, and featured comments by outgoing division presidents, games and a general social/networking time.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Member Engagement, Organizational Stability and Sustainability

What will your group be working on for the next three months?
Under the leadership of Anne Pepitone, the committee will take part in transitional exercises as the divisions comprising the future Core work to align themselves toward a unified, reoriented structure and mission.

Is there anything LITA could have provided during this time that would have helped your group with its work?
This was a difficult, transitional year characterized primarily by uncertainty of the future. As such the committee, with no differing guidance, focused on the already established annual events and items left to it, such as LITAchat and the happy hour events.

Please provide suggestions for future education topics, initiatives, publications, resources, or other activities that could be developed based on your group’s work.
Establishing, during this transitional phase, a series of outreach "touch points" with membership will be vital as Core collectively defines itself to its members. Within LITA this falls across both the MDC and Communications committees. In Core it will be important that whomever owns this responsibility that individual members are communicated with frequently to facilitate a new, group sense of community as Core, not as refugees of LITA.

Submitted by Leland Deeds on 08/02/2020

Membership Development Committee – December 2020 Report

The group met 2-3 times this quarter.

Recent Activities

First Activity
During this period how MDC and CAM will cooperate on future LITAchat events was clarified, whether the committee should target information regarding the proposed CORE division was discussed, and the task of relaunching this initiative within the committee was taken by the Vice Chair.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Member Engagement

Second Activity
Planning for a shared networking opportunity at Midwinter, the "happy hour," between LITA, ACRL and LLAMA is almost concluded. This has been led by the chair with significant aid by our newest member, Pauline Stacchini.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Education and Professional Development

Third Activity
The chair and vice chair attended a joint committee meeting led by Chrishelle Thomas focused on two initiatives, a marketing campaign focused on members' "LITA Journey" and efforts to boost LITA's "content pipeline."
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Education and Professional Development

What will your group be working on for the next three months?
Our minimal goals are: 1) finalize contract with site for Midwinter happy hour, 2) begin scouting sites for Annual's happy hour, 3) relaunch LITAchat; and 4) begin internal discussions regarding the next leadership transition and identifying a potential next vice chair.

Submitted by Leland Deeds on 01/07/2020

Membership Development Committee – September 2019 Report

The group met 0 times this quarter.

Recent Activities

First Activity
Separate phone meetings were held with the past-chair and Vice Chair for planning purposes. Current committee membership were messaged requesting a response to a Doodle poll for establishing a consistent monthly meeting date/time. Committee working documents were updated. The committee's first zoom meeting will be in October. LITA staff were contacted to confirm our committee's "happy hour budget" for the year, and an initial list of locations has been suggested for Philadelphia.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Member Engagement

Second Activity
After follow up with LITA staff and the past chair I will be reaching out to the new leadership of CAM to gauge the level of involvement they desire for moderating LITAchat in the upcoming year.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Education and Professional Development

What will your group be working on for the next three months?
The MDC's immediate work will be: (1) planning for happy hour in Philadelphia, (2) establishing a topics roster for the 2019-2020 LITAchat series, and (3) confirming if and planning the 101 Open House recording for Midwinter.

Is there anything LITA could have provided during this time that would have helped your group with its work?
It would have been nice to receive a confirmed committee roster and budget for the year.

Submitted by Leland Deeds on 10/03/2019

Membership Development Committee – May 2019 Report

The group met 2-3 times this quarter.

Recent Activities

First Activity
ALAAC19 Conference Kickoff – Recorded webinar featuring several folks organizing events at Annual this year.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Education and Professional Development, Member Engagement

Second Activity
March 29 LITAchat – 2 featured LITA members and their projects complete with LITA Blog features thanks to CAM and CAM LITA blog folks.

Twitter stats from CAM on event: âHey Robert, the analytics look pretty good from Marchâs LITAchat. We had 14,920 impressions that day, by far more than the rest of the month. Also, one of the tweetâs from the chat was the third most engaged with LITA tweet that monthâ
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Education and Professional Development, Member Engagement, Organizational Stability and Sustainability

Third Activity
May 31 LITAchat – 2 featured LITA members and their projects complete with LITA Blog features thanks to CAM and CAM LITA blog folks.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Advocacy and Information Policy, Education and Professional Development, Member Engagement

Fourth Activity
ALAAC19 Happy Hour planning – Have contacted a dozen venues to date and pricing for space and minimum expenses/catering requirements are on average 5-10 times our event budget ($1,000 for year or $500 for AC and MW each). Recommend the Happy Hour budget be updated annually to reflect cities in which Annual and Midwinter take place. For example, New Orleans, Seattle, and Denver venues in general were much more accommodating to LITA's preferred Happy Hour format while Chicago, D.C., and to some extent Atlanta venues in our searches seemed to only accommodate more formal reservations for large groups with larger minimums or fees up front.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Member Engagement

Fifth Activity
MDC Brainstorm document:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17UW6Ux34shDkfOL4SY4KpSkSD7CKnRmJou3YEWqr6d8/edit

Still a WIP, but there seems to be a lot of potential in virtual personalized engagement strategies for 1st year members and regional and student engagement activities.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Member Engagement, Organizational Stability and Sustainability

What will your group be working on for the next three months?
Happy Hour for ALAAC over the next few weeks, and continue work on brainstorming document. I suspect this document will serve as a good introduction to the committee for new MDC members.

Additional comments or concerns:
It's been a good and busy 3 years on the committee for me, very different from what I expected, but I'm grateful for the opportunity and for what i've learned.

Submitted by Robert Wilson on 05/30/2019

Membership Development Committee – February 2019 Report

The group met 2-3 times this quarter.

Recent Activities

First Activity
LITA happy hour at ALA Midwinter – Executed happy hour event in Seattle. Attendance count ~50-70 attendees.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Member Engagement

Second Activity
LITA @ ALAMW Conference Kickoff recording – Recorded a short webinar on LITA and LITA's activities at MW for current and prospective LITA members.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Member Engagement

Third Activity
LITAchat on twitter – Two events in November and January with Planning for March Event featuring LITA members and a tech project they're working on. This work has involved CAM and now BLOG subcommittee to feature panelists on LITABlog.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Education and Professional Development, Member Engagement

What will your group be working on for the next three months?
March and May LITAchats, ALA Annual Happy Hour, Brainstorming document Jenny has requested on member engagement, ALA Annual conference kickoff recording.

Submitted by Robert Wilson on 03/29/2019

Membership Development Committee – December 2018 Report

The group met 2-3 times this quarter.

Recent Activities

First Activity
LITAchat events and planning –
planning for continuation of LITAchat on Twitter events was done with two LITAchats being planned.
October 26 LITAchat discussed LITA Forum 2018 with a member of CAM moderating the chat, and
members of the LITA Forum Planning committee discussing what to look forward to.
November 30 LITAchat invited 3 participants to share and discuss an interesting project they’re
currently working on.
January 25 LITAchat has been planned and scheduled to discuss 2 projects peers in the field are currently working on.
March 29 LITAchat is being planned with similar tech project topics
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Education and Professional Development, Member Engagement

Second Activity
Selected a vice-chair of MDC for next year.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Organizational Stability and Sustainability

Third Activity
Planned and recorded a Midwinter Conference Kickoff webinar that will share details about LITA and events planned at MW including TTT, Happy Hour, and Town Hall as part of our virtual engagement efforts.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Member Engagement

Fourth Activity
Planned MW Happy Hour event for prospective and current LITA members attending MW.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Member Engagement

Fifth Activity
Liaison work with NMRT and LITA’s CAM committee have yielded reports and specific to CAM better collaboration in planning and conducting LITAchats and reviewing post-chat analytics.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Member Engagement

What will your group be working on for the next three months?
Continuation of event planning at Midwinter and LITA Forum, continuation of LITAchat events for
March – June. Beginning discussions and planning for ALA Annual events.

Submitted by Robert Wilson on 01/11/2019

Membership Development Committee – September 2018 Report

The group met 2-3 times this quarter.

Recent Activities

First Activity
LITAchat planning –
planning for continuation of LITAchat on Twitter events was done with two LITAchats being planned.
October 26 LITAchat will be discussing LITA Forum 2018 with a member of CAM moderating the chat, and members of the LITA Forum Planning committee discussing what to look forward to.
November 30 LITAchat will be inviting 3 participants to share and discuss an interesting project they're currently working on.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Education and Professional Development, Member Engagement

Second Activity
Member Engagement opportunity at LITA Forum 2018 –
A member of MDC is reaching out to LITA Forum Planning folks to conduct a Post-It note feedback survey regarding LITA membership experience for assessment.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Member Engagement, Organizational Stability and Sustainability

Third Activity
LITA Happy Hour planning –
discussions and planning commencing regarding LITA Happy Hour at Midwinter Seattle. A few venues have already been identified with member of MDC located in Seattle to make contact with venues for planning.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Member Engagement

Fourth Activity
Conference Kickoff Planning –
discussion and planning on the conference kickoff/LITA Open House has begun for Midwinter Seattle. MDC has decided to make a recorded presentation discussing LITA's offerings at Midwinter and of being a LITA member as doing more virtual asynchronous engagement work is becoming more and more important. Depending on how the activity goes, a hybrid live/recorded kickoff event may take place at Annual 2019.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Member Engagement, Organizational Stability and Sustainability

Fifth Activity
LITA Tactical Plan –
Work is continuing slowly in regards to tasks on LITA's Tactical plan designated for Membership Development. To make some of the work and desired outcomes clearer and more succinct, a cleanup process of our Trello workboard has commenced to make action items more discernible and moving items that are more appropriate in Connect or Google Docs to those spaces.
Meets LITA’s strategic goals for Education and Professional Development, Organizational Stability and Sustainability

What will your group be working on for the next three months?
Continuation of event planning at Midwinter and LITA Forum, continuation of LITAchat events for January, February, and March, continuation of work on tactical plan tasks. Beginning discussions and planning for ALA Annual events.

Submitted by Robert Wilson on 10/12/2018