- Attend council meetings (5 meetings each year, including the annual conference)
- Submit Campus Updates on the forum for each council meeting
- Stay informed about SUNYLA
- Join the SUNYLA-L listserv and encourage your colleagues to do the same. You do not have to be a SUNYLA member to join the listserv.
- Solicit & gather information for the newsletter and send to the Publications Chair. Some suggestions for content include:
- Highlight faculty and staff achievements (publications, presentations, awards, tenure, etc.)
- Library personnel hires and departures
- Fun and/or interesting events happening in or sponsored by the library
- Share information about what is going on in SUNYLA with your library
- Report back to your library anything of interest from council meetings
- Publicize SUNYLA conferences and committee workshops
- Put out calls for volunteers for SUNYLA committees, especially at the beginning of the academic year when conference planning committees are forming. See the Committees list for contact information for anyone interested in joining a SUNYLA committee.
- Encourage library personnel to join SUNYLA
- Send out a welcome email to new employees with information about what SUNYLA is, the benefits of membership, and how to join.
If you have a tip to add, please send it to web@sunyla.org.