{"id":6426,"date":"2013-02-19T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/?p=6426"},"modified":"2013-03-05T13:38:20","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T18:38:20","slug":"nominating-committe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/2013\/02\/19\/nominating-committe\/","title":{"rendered":"DPLA Nominating Committee soliciting recommendations for Board candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DPLA Nominating Committee was established by the DPLA <a title=\"Board of Directors\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/about\/board\/\">Board of Directors<\/a> during a <a title=\"[December 17, 2012] Board of Directors call\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/about\/board\/december-17-2012-board-of-directors-call\/\">December 2012 meeting<\/a> to\u00a0recommend two additional members for the DPLA Board of Directors.\u00a0The Nominating Committee is composed of the following individuals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><\/em>Cathy Casserly, <em>DPLA Board of Directors (Treasurer)<br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><\/em>Luis Herrera, <em>DPLA Board of Directors<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The purpose of the DPLA Nominating Committee is to identify a set of qualified candidates, to be elected by the current Board of Directors, for two DPLA Board positions. The committee\u2019s guiding principle is to propose two qualified and professionally diverse individuals who will seek to fulfill the DPLA\u2019s strategic goal of creating a free and open national digital library resource.<\/p>\n<p>Toward that end, the Nominating Committee will endeavor:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>to propose a geographically, professionally, and racially\/ethnically diverse group of candidates;<\/li>\n<li>to propose candidates who possess a broad view of the library and information technology landscape and can claim experience in a variety of professional contexts;<\/li>\n<li>to propose a set of candidates that can inspire an actionable, enthusiastic response in the wider library and information technology community; and<\/li>\n<li>to propose a set of candidates who will seek to fulfill the DPLA\u2019s broad commitment to openness, inclusiveness, and accessibility.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Board of Directors guiding terms and principles, including the key responsibilities required of new Directors, can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/files\/2013\/01\/DPLABoardPrinciplesAndResponsibilities_01-10-13.pdf\">here<\/a>. The Nominating Committee encourages you to share the document with your networks and anyone interested in serving.<\/p>\n<p>The Nominating Committee thanks everyone who submitted nominations and self-nominations to serve on the DPLA Board of Directors. The Nominating Committee looks forward to announcing the Board new members in April 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DPLA Nominating Committee was formed in December 2012 to find candidates for two spots on the Board of Directors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4454,"featured_media":6709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1781,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-get-involved","category-governance"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/files\/2013\/01\/dplawesttwodudes1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6426"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7043,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6426\/revisions\/7043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}