Responsibilities of the Advisory Board

Responsibilities of the Advisory Board of the Butler Children's Literature Center at Dominican University

Administered by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the Butler Children's Literature Center is currently located in 340 Rebecca Crown Library at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois. Founding partners at Dominican include the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the School of Education, the Rebecca Crown Library, and the Butler Family Foundation.

As a Sinsinawa sponsored institution, Dominican Unversity prepares students to pursue truth, to give compassionate service, and to participate in the creation of a more just and humane world. The Butler Children's Literature Center at Dominican will carry out its own mission as a reflection of that inspiration. The Butler Children's Literature Center at Dominican University will be an exemplary presence for its collection of children's and young adult literature and for the professional materials that support their use with children and young adults.

The Butler Children's Literature Center Advisory Board is comprised of distinguished education, library, literacy, literature, and youth services professionals and advocates, as well as exemplary university professors, publishers, and media producers. The Advisory Board members represent scores of organizations that serve the needs of the youth services professions and provide essential library, literature, and literacy services and materials to millions of children and youth, both regionally and nationally. The Advisory Board members and their institutional affiliations will be featured prominently on our web site with links to the members' institutional web sties.

Our expectations for Advisory Board members include:

• provide input on our long range plans for the Butler Center, both in person and via electronically-shared documents,
• attending at least one meeting and one program per annum, and
• serving as advocates for our programs, web site, and publications to the Advisory Board members' constituencies through flyers, newsletters, magazines, conferences, web announcements, member listservs, and other approrpirate means.

The inaugural Butler Children's Literature Center Advisory Board will be appointed to a three-year-term, effective January 1, 2009, with individual members eligible for a second one-, two-, or three-year appointment beginning in January, 2012.