Other professional activities include the Midwest Archives Council, Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board, Council of State Historical Records Coordinators, Kansas Records Board, and Academy of Certified Archivists. I strongly endorse planning and an evolving structure as the keys to an effective and well managed professional association. Most importantly, having served on the recent task force on continuing education, I know from first-hand experience that Council empowers and listens to these task forces. It must continue to appoint task forces of the members to be its eyes and ears. Then it must act on the recommendations of the task forces. . . .
Strategic planning is a good way to review recommendations and set priorities.
The work of the task forces must be integrated into the planning process. She is the former president of the New England Archivists and is a member of the Academy of Certified Archivists and Massachusetts Historical Records Advisory Board. It is critical for Council to help devise ways to follow-up on the hard work of members. . . . For example, Council must assure that the organization is doing all it can to share broadly the results of task force work easily and in a timely manner. Council can and should assist and cajole those who worked so hard to bring results to fruition to effectively pass-off information to as wide an audience as possible.