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Year one implementation steps 

Report on GLAD Program February 2008     

Global Library Association Development (GLAD) Program

1.  A twinning/mentoring program is implemented.  Janice La Chance, Gillian
Hallam, (ALIA VP/President Elect) and the MLAS Chair agreed to establish a
Twinning/Mentoring Working Group.  The MLAS Chair will also contact Alicia
Ocaso and Sylvia Piggott to invite them to join the working group.
  

Unveiling of the GLAD twinning website at our IFLA 2005 MLAS Open Session
in Oslo, providing instructions and mentor/mentee forms as part of the program. 
The MLAS Chair will work with the Twinning/Mentoring Working Group and
American Library Association staff to develop the guidelines and forms for
the www site.  Jan Ewout van der Putten and Britt Marie Häggström agreed to send
some information on the EBLIDA twinning program.

2. The development of a database of library associations for benchmarking and
planning purposes to include statistical, as well as organizational information.
The MLAS Chair will work with American Library Association staff and Kelly
Moore to implement this.  By the IFLA 2005 MLAS SC meeting in Oslo, a
proposed template of information to be contained in the database will be
presented for discussion and approval.  Data gathering will begin after the Oslo
meeting and Gilliam Hallam offered to provide the assistance of her graduate
students.
  

3.  Work with Kelly Moore to identify library associations that have dropped out
of IFLA and implement outreach activities to encourage them to rejoin IFLA.

4. Work on a communications plan to get information out to library associations
throughout the world.

5. Develop a method for evaluation of the GLAD program.

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