<div dir="ltr"><div>Greetings SOA Members,<br></div><div><br></div><div>Just a quick reminder that the deadline for expressing interest in serving on the SOA Bylaws Revision Task Force is this Wednesday. The original call for volunteers is below, and as always please let me know if you have any questions.</div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes.</div><div><br></div><div>-Matt</div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------</div><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" target="_blank">SOA Bylaws</a>. More specifically the task force has been asked to look at how the Bylaws can better support:</div><div><ol><li style="margin-left:15px">Increased democratization of organizational decision-making.</li><li style="margin-left:15px">The improved efficiency of Council administration.</li><li style="margin-left:15px">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>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><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="mai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