Call for nominations: IGALA Vice-President & Secretary

[Ana Cristina Ostermann]

Dear IGALA members,

We would like to invite nominations for the following IGALA positions:

1. Vice President/President-Elect
2. Secretary

(Job descriptions are included below.)

Self and other-nominations are encouraged. Both 'nominators' and candidates must be paid-up members of IGALA.

I will be responsible for contacting all nominees to determine whether they are willing to stand. Please
address all responses to me <aco at unisinos.br> rather than to the entire list. The nomination period will close
on Oct 15, 2008.

We take this opportunity to encourage and welcome new IGALA members! The IGALA membership form is available at
<http://www.equinoxpub.com/downloads/igalamember.pdf> and should be sent directly to Equinox (contacts can be
obtained on the form). Information about IGALA can be found at
<http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/organisations/igala/index.htm>.

Best,
Vicky Bergvall, IGALA President
Ana Cristina Ostermann, IGALA Secretary

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Job Descriptions

1. Vice-President (President-elect)

The Vice-President is responsible for

•   supporting the President as appropriate in all the above
•   assuming the duties of the President in the event the President cannot serve, and succeeding to the office
of President at the expiration of the term as President-elect
•   monitoring the IGALA site, identifying new links, documents and information to be posted on it, and
liaising with the Webweaver about this (together with the President and Secretary)
•   chairing the Nominations Committee for Advisory and Executive IGALA committee members
•   running the IGALA (Post)graduate Student Essay Competition (including chairing the committee, one member of
whom will be the Graduate Student Representative)
*The Vice-President is also strongly encouraged to attend the IGALA International conferences.


2. Secretary

The Secretary is responsible for

•   gathering agenda items for meetings
•   producing and distributing agendas
•   keeping Minutes of IGALA Executive and Open meetings
•   maintaining records of meetings and decisions
•   producing and distributing/posting Minutes of the meetings to the IGALA Membership
•   in conjunction with the Vice President/President-elect, organising elections and distributing/posting
results to the IGALA membership
•   monitoring the IGALA site, identifying new links, documents and information to be posted on it, and
liaising with the Webweaver about this (together with the President and President-elect)
*The Secretary is also strongly encouraged to attend the IGALA International conferences.