<div dir="ltr">Greetings SOA Members,<div><br></div><div>The SOA Council recently decided to form a task force that is charged with providing SOA Council recommendations on possible updates to the <a href="https://ohioarchivists.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/SOA-Constitution-and-Bylaws-2019.pdf">SOA Bylaws</a>. More specifically the task force has been asked to look at how the Bylaws can better support:</div><div><ol><li>Increased democratization of organizational decision-making.</li><li>The improved efficiency of Council administration.</li><li>The identification, and where practical, reconciliation of differences between the SOA Council Manual and the SOA Constitution & Bylaws.</li></ol><div>Our goal for the task force membership is to have representatives from SOA Council, Committee co-chairs, and the general membership. <b>Consequently, if you are interested in serving on this task force as a representative of the general membership please contact me with your interest by Wednesday, September 20th.</b></div><div><br></div><div><u>Additional information</u></div><div><u><br></u></div><div><i style="">Timeline - </i>We will work to get recommendations to SOA Council during the Spring of 2024 in order to support Council bringing any suggested revisions to the membership at the 2024 Annual Meeting.</div><div><br></div><div><i>Time Commitment - </i>In support of trying to allow as much flexibility for volunteers as possible, my goal is that after an initial virtual kick-off meeting most of our work will be accomplished through email and Google Docs. That said, if/as needed we will look to schedule additional virtual meetings.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you everyone for your consideration and please let me know if you have any questions about the opportunity.</div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes.</div><div><br></div><div>-Matt</div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><table border="0" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";border-collapse:collapse;min-width:450px;width:auto"><tbody><tr><td style="width:131px;vertical-align:middle"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://onu.edu&source=gmail-html&ust=1674825356087000&usg=AOvVaw0UJR4pQLPAsHCSLb2YV55e" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="Ohio Northern University" target="_blank"><img src="https://my.onu.edu/sites/default/files/images/onu3.png" width="126" height="auto" alt="" style="margin:0px 0px 10px 5px"></a> <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.instagram.com/ohionorthern/?hl%3Den&source=gmail-html&ust=1674825356087000&usg=AOvVaw08cqCXsnU8KAdouaEm2YvK" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="ONU Instagram" target="_blank"><img src="https://my.onu.edu/sites/default/files/images/insta.png" width="23" height="23" alt="" style="margin-left:10px;margin-right:2px;width:23px;height:23px"></a><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.facebook.com/OhioNorthern/&source=gmail-html&ust=1674825356087000&usg=AOvVaw0XBB0C_fTKpA2VGhNVE9rY" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="ONU Facebook" target="_blank"><img src="https://my.onu.edu/sites/default/files/images/facebook.png" width="23" height="23" alt="" style="margin-left:5px;margin-right:2px;width:23px;height:23px"></a><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://twitter.com/ohionorthern?ref_src%3Dtwsrc%255Egoogle%257Ctwcamp%255Eserp%257Ctwgr%255Eauthor&source=gmail-html&ust=1674825356087000&usg=AOvVaw1XbB7oIuTelHjYSMfEvW6B" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="ONU Twitter" target="_blank"><img src="https://my.onu.edu/sites/default/files/images/twitter.png" width="23" height="23" alt="" style="margin-left:5px;margin-right:2px;width:23px;height:23px"></a><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvdGjbOWVUkVJZVm0l-px7g&source=gmail-html&ust=1674825356087000&usg=AOvVaw39LHQTRhAMOakLRdoLmQaK" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="ONU Youtube" target="_blank"><img src="https://my.onu.edu/sites/default/files/images/youtube_0.png" width="23" height="23" alt="" style="margin-left:5px;margin-right:2px;width:23px;height:23px"></a></td><td style="min-width:350px;width:auto"><div style="border-left:2px solid rgb(237,99,47);padding:10px;margin:10px 0px 0px 5px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><strong>Matt Francis (he/him/his)</strong><br>Archivist<br>Heterick Memorial Library<br>Archives Reading Room - Heterick 301<br>419-772-1925<br><a href="mailto:r-legge@onu.edu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">m-francis.1@onu.edu</a></font></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>