With a print circulation of 1,200 and full-text publication in H. W. Wilson's Omnifile, Virginia Libraries offers librarians an opportunity to publish to an almost unlimited audience. She also introduced next year's Chair of the Legislative Committee, Sam Clay . The minutes from the June 11 meeting were approved. The Treasurer's report was presented by Linda Hahne .
Expenses are very close to budgeted amounts.
Linda Hahne also presented the Executive Director's report. VLA has 1,180 members, which includes 242 new members. When the 287 members who did not renew were contacted, their reasons for not renewing were personal, such as a change of job, a move out of state, or retirement, rather than discontent with the Association. The VLA financial plan will be presented at the October meeting, when the new Council will be in place. The Executive Council reported that they were approached by ALA's Office of Intellectual Freedom about whether VLA wished to join in a potential law suit to challenge HB 748.