Dear ARLIS/NA members,
I want to let you know that the Board is hearing your very real concerns that the various members and chapter leaders over the course of the last few days about chapter affiliation.
The Board wants to apologize for making a decision about the collection of chapter dues in a manner that has left so many people feeling disenfranchised. The Board has rescinded its vote to collect chapter dues centrally so that we can have a productive and profitable discussion with the leaders and members of the chapters.
We would like to take another couple of days to further review your comments, and to discuss our next steps as a Board and with all of you. We will provide further information about our rationale behind the affiliation agreement, answer the questions about the agreement that have come forward, and begin a process to work through the other issues that you have brought to us.
Thank you all very much for your comments, your concern, and your thoughts on all these issues.
Sincerely,
Ann Whiteside and the ARLIS/NA Board
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Ann Baird Whiteside
Head, Rotch Library of Architecture & Planning
MIT
Room 7-238
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-258-5594
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President, ARLIS/NA
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Editor, Cataloging Cultural Objects
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