Library Trustees Association Interest Group
The objective of this association is to promote and foster the development of libraries and library service and to provide for the exchange of ideas and experience among library board members.
The officers are President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer, each elected for a term of two years. Elections are held at an annual meeting of the Association.
The Executive Committee consists of seven members, four of whom are the officers of the Association and three of whom are Members-at-large who are also elected or a term of two years. The Executive Secretary of MLA and the President of the Maine Library Association and the State Librarian are non-voting, ex-officio members of the Executive Committee.
The annual meeting of the Association is held at the time and place of the annual meeting of the Maine Library Association.
Membership in the Association is open to any person who is a member of the Maine Library Association and an application designates affiliation with MLTA. Two dollars of dues money for each MLTA member is collected by the Treasurer o MLA. The President of MLTA is advised of the total number of MLTA members by the Chairman of the Membership Committee of MLA and requests that the appropriate amount of dues money be submitted to the Treasurer of MLTA yearly in October.
The President of MLTA is a voting member of the Executive Council of the Maine Library Association and is expected to attend all Council meetings and to report on MLTA activities. The President is also a member of the MLA Conference Planning Committee and attends and participates in Committee meetings.
The Maine Library Trustees Association is responsible for the yearly presentation of one or more programs or workshops dealing with trusteeship, to be held at the Annual Spring Conference. All arrangements for speakers or presentations are the responsibility of the Trustee Association although costs incurred are paid for by the Conference Planning Committee with prior approval.