MLC Board of Directors

Board Calendar

All meetings are held at MLC in the Boardroom, 9:00 AM, except as noted.

  • November 15-16, 2007 Board Retreat (Brook Lodge, Augusta, MI)
  • January 18, 2008
  • March 21, 2008
  • May 16, 2008
  • July 18, 2008
  • September 19, 2008
  • October 2008 Annual Meeting (date and location TBA)
  • November 20-21, 2008 Board Retreat (location TBA)

Board Structure

  • Seven Board Members by type of library:
    • Academic (1)
    • Library of Michigan (1)
    • Public (1)
    • Research (2)
      (Two seats to be filled on a three (3) year rotational basis by designated Representatives from Detroit Public Library, Michigan State University, University of Michigan, and Wayne State University.)
    • School (1)
    • Special (1)
  • Six Board Members elected at-large
  • Senior OCLC Members Council Delegate
  • Executive Director (Ex-officio and non-voting)

Board Position Descriptions

Excerpted from the Michigan Library Consortium ByLaws and Board Policy Manual.

Board Member
Specific job outputs of the board, as an informed agent of the ownership, are those that ensure appropriate organizational performance.

Accordingly, the board has direct responsibility to create:

  1. The link between the ownership and the operational organization.
  2. Written governing policies that address the broadest levels of all organizational decisions and situations.
    • Ends: Organizational products, impacts, benefits, outcomes, recipients, and their relative worth (what good for which recipients at what cost).
    • Executive Limitations: Constraints on executive authority that establish the prudence and ethics boundaries within which all executive activity and decisions must take place.
    • Governance Process: Specification of how the board conceives, carries out and monitors its own task.
    • Board- Executive Director Linkage: How power is delegated and its proper use monitored; the Executive Director role, authority and accountability.
  3. Assurance of successful Executive Director performance.

Chair
The Chair shall:

  • Establish the agenda for, and preside at all meetings of the Board of Directors and annual and special meetings of the membership;
  • Report on Board of Directors actions at the annual membership meeting;
  • Designate a parliamentarian as needed;
  • Have and exercise such additional powers and duties as shall from time to time be conferred upon the office by the Board of Directors or membership;
  • Appoint chair and members of committees and task forces as provided in Article VI;
  • Fill vacancies on the Board of Directors as provided in Article IV Section 4.04 (B) and Article V. Section 5.04 [of MLC Bylaws].

Vice Chair
The Vice Chair shall:

  • Assist the Chair in the performance of that office's duties;
  • Assume and exercise, in the absence or incapacity of the Chair, all the powers and duties of the office of Chair;
  • Assume the office of Chair in the event of the Chair’s resignation;
  • Chair the Nominating and Leadership Development Committee.

Secretary
The Secretary shall:

  • Review and ensure that all official minutes of the Board of Directors meetings and of the annual and/or special membership meetings are recorded accurately, distributed, and made part of the official record.
  • Determine the presence or absence of a quorum at each membership and Board of Directors meeting;
  • Regularly review and ensure that the Board Policy Manual accurately reflects current Board policy.
  • Maintain a permanent record of the Board’s proceedings and official documents.