The Central organisation of the Association consists of a President, two Vice-Presidents and the Executive Board all elected annually. For a list and brief biographies of members of the Executive Board please follow this link.
Executive Board The Executive Board is the governing body of the Association and consists of an Honorary Treasurer, Honorary Secretary and twenty-one other members. For details of the members of the Executive Board please click here The Executive Board appoints a Finance and General Purposes Committee and an Education Committee each year, and nominates members to a range of other committees in which it participates. The Executive Board meets six or seven times a year and each Group/Section is entitled to send a non-voting observer to the meetings. The schedule of Executive Board meetings for 2011/2012 is available here.
Finance & General Purposes Committee. The Finance & General Purposes Committee is the administrative Committee dealing with finance, membership, and publications. The Committee meets six times a year and its activities are described in the Annual Report.
Education Committee The role of Education Committee is to maintain standards of professional education within Ireland and to work towards the continual raising of standards of professional education in line with best practice internationally [ ... read more on the role of the Education Committee]
North-South Liaison Committee The Association has strong links with the Chartered Institute of Library and Informaiton Professionals (CILIP) in Ireland and the North-South Liaison Committee, consisting of representatives of both Associations, meets several times a year. The Committee publishes the quarterly journal An Leabharlann, and organises the Annual Joint Conference. The Conference is held in Northern Ireland every third year.
The Association nominates representatives to a range of Committees, including: COMMITTEE ON LIBRARY CO-OPERATION IN IRELAND (COLICO) NEWSPLAN
As a means of greatly improving the way the Association prepares and carries through policy, it was proposed, in 1998, that the existing Executive Board Committees be replaced with a small number of panels or working groups charged with the tasks of: looking ahead at the issues that will, or may arise, in the future; preparing policy options/recommendations for the consideration of the Board and Association; preparing policy positions at the request of the Board.
The following committees, panels, task forces and representative were appointed at the Executive Board meeting of 19 May 2011:
Communications Committee 1 – Policy and Procedures: Bernadette Fennell, Fionnuala Hanrahan, Pat Lonergan, Mary Stuart (Convenor).
Terms of Reference of Communications Committee 1 – Policy and Procedure
Communications Committee 2 – An Leabharlann Editorial Board: Kate Kelly, Terry O’Brien, Marjory Sliney.
Communications Committee 3- Task Force on LAI Website: Louise Farragher, Jessica Eustace-Cook, Gillian Kerins, Zoe Melling, Emer O’Brien, Mary Stuart, Kieran Swords (Convenor), Brendan Teeling.
Terms of Reference of the Task Force on The Library Association Website
Education Committee – CPD: Jane Cantwell [Convenor], Áine Carey, Deirdre Ellis-King, Margaret Hayes, Kate Kelly, Gillian Kerins, Mary Murphy, Terry O’Brien, Marjory Sliney.
Education Committee – Professional Standards: Philip Cohen, Deirdre Ellis-King, Siobhán Fitzpatrick [Convenor], Seán Hughes (to September 2011), Gillian Kerins, Mary Murphy (to September 2011), Terry O’Brien, Marjory Sliney, Professor Diane Sonnenwald.
Terms of reference of the Education Committee: Professional Standards
European & International Affairs Panel: Jenny Aston, Joseph Donnelly, Siobhán Fitzpatrick, Gillian Kerins, Terry O’Brien, Liam Ronayne, Marjory Sliney (Convenor), Brendan Teeling.
Finances & General Purposes Committee: Jane Cantwell, Philip Cohen, Catherine Gallagher, Fionnuala Hanrahan, Seán Hughes (to September 2011), Hazel Percival, Kieran Swords.
Leabharlann-e: Aisling Donnelly (compiler and editor); Fionnuala Hanrahan, Jane Cantwell, Philip Cohen, Catherine Gallagher, Kieran Swords.
North-South Liaison Committee: Jane Cantwell, Philip Cohen, Catherine Gallagher, Fionnuala Hanrahan, Mary Murphy (to September 2011), Hazel Percival, Marjory Sliney, Kieran Swords.
Task Force on Employment Support: Áine Carey, Marie G. Cullen, Margaret Hayes (Convenor), Miriam Leonard, Mary Murphy (Secretary) (to September 2011), Ann O’Sullivan.
Terms of Reference of the Task Force on Employment Support
Task Force on Information Literacy: Philip Cohen, Kate Kelly, Sinéad Ó’Gorman.
Terms of Reference for the Task Force on Information Literacy
Task Force on Library Association of Ireland Business Development Plan: Jane Cantwell, Aisling Donnelly (Secretary), Louise Farragher, Bernadette Fennell, Siobhán Fitzpatrick , Catherine Gallagher, Fionnuala Hanrahan, Seán Hughes (to September 2011), Kieran Swords.
Terms of Reference for task Force on Business Development Plan
Task Force on Library Association of Ireland Website: Jane Clavin, Áine O’Connor, Kieran Swords (Convener), Brendan Teeling. Terms of Reference of the Task Force on The Library Association Website
Task Force on Library Ireland Week: Jane Burns, Georgina Byrne, Jane Cantwell (Convenor), Louise Farragher, Bernadette Fennell, Catherine Gallagher, Conor McCabe, Mary Murphy (to September 2011), Emer O’Brien.
Terms of Reference of the Task Force on Library Ireland Week
Task Force on Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Library Association of Ireland: Jane Cantwell, Philip Cohen, Joseph Donnelly, Siobhán Fitzpatrick (Convenor), Catherine Gallagher, Fionnuala Hanrahan, Seán Hughes (to September 2011), Hazel Percival, Liam Ronayne, Marjory Sliney, Kieran Swords.
Terms of Reference of the Task Force on the Memorandum and Articles of Association
Taskforce to respond to the Department of Education and Skills’ Literacy and Numeracy for Learning and Life Report, 2011: Emer O’Brien (Chair), Laura Joyce, Mary Reynolds, Orla Níc Aodha, Karyn Deegan, Catherine Gallagher.
Policy and Guidelines document and Terms of Reference of Task Forces