SLA Drops Organizational Memberships
From a small list that made it onto a larger list:
Members of the SLA Technical Standards Committee:
As your Board liaison, I am sorry to inform you that due to budget cuts, SLA's FY 2005 budget does not include funding for membership in such organizations as NISO and CNI. The only paid membership we will be retaining is in IFLA. The current memberships will expire at the end of this year.
The FY 2005 budget was a particularly challenging one, and many items (and positions) remained unfunded. We have expectations for a better budget year in FY 2006, and may be able to reconsider some of our memberships at that time.
Your mission remains unchanged in monitoring, reviewing and commenting upon standards that affect special libraries and information centers, and serving to assist SLA members in understanding the changing world of technical standards that affect library and information services. For instance, your work in assembling the upcoming Toronto session on Unicode is an excellent example of fulfilling your mission.