support: Charlene Kloos, Charlene Hipes/Clive Jones To complete Annual Report (July) Status/Activities: Staff support: Clive Jones To develop RFP that will lead to assessment of contracting for the collection/maintenance of a set of national database records that would be accessible to AIRS members Status/Activities: Support: Charlene Kloos, Clive Jones, Moayad Zahralddin To promote ABCs to non-members and to members who are outside of the higher membership tiers at a base price of $450 for an electronic/print version, for a total value of $5,500 Status/Activities: support: Charlene Kloos To produce and distribute 9 issues of the newsletter “Connections” and advise on content (focus on news, membership information and human interest stories) Status/Activities: To explore revisions to the design/format of the newsletter to expand readership Status/Activities: To secure newsletter advertising to the value of $1,500 Status/Activities: Standards Committee Chair: Bob McKown Members: Beth Wick, Cathleen Kelly, Anne Fogoros, Fred Koss, Georgia Sales, Randy Nicklaus, Charlotte McHenry, Bridget Wolf, Mary Osborn, Linda Daily Overall objective The Standards Committee shall establish Standards which define the expected practices within the field of I&R and provide guidelines that communities or other jurisdictions can utilize in developing an I&R program. Support: Charlene Hipes To maintain at least 2 non-Board members as volunteers, drawing particularly from the Affiliates Council if possible Status/Activities: Support: Charlene Hipes/ Clive Jones To review the 7.0 version of the AIRS Standards (published in February 2013), and gathering feedback regarding any new work being undertaken or understandings being developed on resource database, outcomes, accreditation and technology, to explore whether an update of 7.0 (e.g. 7.1) is required for 2015 (September) Status/Activities: Staff Support: Clive Jones To complete the projects of two work groups initiated in 2013 – one is looking at I&R outcomes while another is looking at advanced issues for resource specialists Status/Activities:
$8,000 Status/Activities: To secure Conference sponsorship, advertising and exhibit revenue to the total of $30,000 Status/Activities: To review conference evaluations (August) Status/Activities: To secure contract for 2015 conference (April) Status/Activities: To identify site options for 2016 conference Status/Activities: Training Committee Debra Harris, Vice Chair: Shye Louis Members: Barbara Manning, Faed Hendry, Keith Jenne Loffer, John Plonski, Sandra Ray, Judy Whitehurst, Sara Tribe, Kelsey Walter, Lisa Herrera, Suzy Teubner, Erin Goff, Angela Pelegrini, Fran Spadafora Manzella, Helen Michael Overall objective To explore and implement training options for members in to improve the quality and consistency of available I&R training. Support: Clive Jones To maintain at least 2 non-Board members as volunteers, drawing particularly from the Affiliates Council if possible Status/Activities: Staff support: Clive Jones To complete 8 webinars over course of the year Status/Activities: To monitor Online Training through course registrations and evaluations, and make program adjustments as required, with a 2014 target of 3,000 course completions and for each course to have 75% of evaluations clearly stating that they agreed with the statements ‘The material in the course was relevant to my job’ and ‘The course met the learning objectives’ Status/Activities: To create new preparation exams for AIRS Certification Status/Activities: To complete the online course on I&R Chat that was