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Thursday, 11th March 2010

Canadian Library Association Begins Process to Recreate Itself, Organization is No Longer "Financially Viable"

The message offers preliminary details of a CLA meeting that took place on 27-28 February for a facilitated session on strategic budgeting.

The attendees learned that the CLA organization, "is in a situation where our revenues are not sufficient to provide all of the activities and services which our members expect and deserve," and that "structural" changes have to be made.

The message continues with a graph illustrating the CLA budget and actual figures for the past 10 years.

We have projected deficit budgets in each of the past 10 years. While we have always managed to finish each year with a better than predicted outcome, we only were able to realize actual profits in four of those years, most recently in 2006.

The next budget must show that CLA is not only working in the best interests of its members but is also, "indicates that CLA is re-defining itself."

It was further agreed that the main focus of CLA's activities should be to advocate for issues of cross-sectoral interest and national importance. In order to achieve this goal, we recognized that both the organizational structure and the budget need to be realigned to support the mission; maintaining the status quo is not an option.

Two motions were introduced. Both passed.

Number One

Whereas the current organizational structure of the Canadian Library Association is no longer financially viable, and

Whereas, Executive Council of the Canadian Library Association is responsible for the financial viability of the association, and

Whereas, national issues faced by the Canadian library community are of critical importance,

Therefore be it resolved that Executive Council commit itself to recreate CLA as an organization that can more effectively advance national issues critical to the Canadian library community, and

That President John Teskey form and chair a task force charged with developing a proposed structure responsive to the association’s financial and strategic challenges, and

That the task force present its findings and recommendations to the 2010 CLA AGM.

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Number 2

To defer elections for CLA Executive positions and Division Executive positions until a decision is taken regarding the organization’s structure.

Finally,

Please note that CLA activities, including those of Divisions, Interest Groups, Committees, and other units, will be "business as usual" in as much as possible until June 30, 2010. The 2010 CLA National Conference in Edmonton will continue as planned, with a very strong professional program and some new innovations in the schedule of events.

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Source: Canadian Library Association

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