Hammond Public Library trustees recognized
The Board of Trustees of the Hammond Public Library will be recognized at the Nov. 15 annual meeting of the Indiana Library Trustee Association (ILTA). ILTA created the LINK Recognition Program to encourage individual trustees and entire library boards to keep learning and to recognize their continuing education. To earn LINK Recognition, individual trustees must complete continuing education, either through ILTA or other means, and they or their libraries must be ILTA members.
This year, Hammond Public Library trustees Willie Mae Durr, Rosemary Kaplan, Luelle Kutcka, Ronald Sims, Diane Sobota and Paul Taylor have met the requirements to receive Individual Recognition at the annual conference. They join the seventh Hammond Library trustee, Maximiliano Iglesias, who received LINK recognition in 2006. As a result, the Board of Trustees this year has qualified for Full Board Recognition as an Outstanding Board. An Outstanding Board is one in which a majority of trustees have reached Level One.
"I am very pleased our trustees have received recognition from the Indiana Library Trustee Association," said library director, Margaret Evans. "Our library board is knowledgable about the Hammond community and works with library staff to meet the library needs of all our citizens."
Continuing education employs a variety of strategies including conference programs, newsletters, and online learning to assist trustees in broadening their knowledge base regarding effective and efficient governance of public libraries. Areas of focus include policy governance, laws and liability, effective director and staff relationships, budgeting, strategic planning, and local and state-level advocacy. Trustees receive points which accumulate toward individual recognition.
Top row, L to R: Rosemary Kaplan, Paul Taylor, Luelle Kutcka, Maximiliano Iglesias
Bottom row, L to R: Diane Sobota, Willie Mae Durr, Ronald Sims
