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Governing Committees

SWAN board and board-appointed committee information.

See our user groups for information on member working and networking groups. User groups provide feedback to the SWAN Executive Director, and as such they are not board appointed. 

Current officers of the SWAN Board.

Members

  • President, Zach Musil
  • Vice-President, Jennifer Cottrill
  • Treasurer, Dawn Bussey
  • Secretary/OMA officer, Samantha Johnson

This committee evaluates and reports to the SWAN Board on matters concerning management performance, employee compensation and personnel policies, management development and continuity plans, and approves (but does not administer or manage) employee compensation and benefit programs.

Members

  • Dawn Bussey
  • Ben Weseloh

The Finance Committee reviews interim and annual financial results and the annual budget plan, the approval of capital expenditures, dispositions and special expenditures. This committee also reviews long-term investment policy and banking resolutions and recommends action by the Board.

Members

  • Zach Musil
  • Dawn Bussey
  • Ben Weseloh

Representatives are appointed when the Board determines the organization policies require review and/or revision.

Members

  • Zach Musil
  • Laura Van Cleve

Members

  • Jennifer Cottrill
  • Zach Musil
  • Ridgeway Burns

Members

  • Aaron Skog
  • Laura Van Cleve (Alternate)

An official SWAN Board meeting held as an information sharing meeting for SWAN member library directors & administrators.

See the calendar for upcoming meetings.

The SWAN Board appointed a Fees Committee in 2012 & 2016 to develop an updated fee structure to reflect our new software and the always-changing library world.

SWAN Fees Committee (2016)

This group first met in June of 2016 and work continues through early 2017 to develop this new model. A recommendation of a new fee structure will likely me made to the SWAN board in early 2017. This new fee structure would go into effect for a FY19 (July 2018) start, if approved.

2016 committee members

  • Jim Deiters, SWAN Board Treasurer
  • Doug Losey, SWAN Board Member
  • Anne Slaughter, RAILS Director of Technology/Interim Director of MAGIC (replaced by Dawne Tortorella, Director of MAGIC)
  • Aaron Skog, Executive Director of SWAN
  • Carol Dawe, Executive Director of LINC
  • Susan Westgate, MAGIC Board Treasurer
  • Tim Jarzemsky, LINC Board Treasurer

Committee Charge 2016 (PDF)

Final Recommendation Report 2017 (PDF)

SWAN Fees Committee (2012)

The SWAN Fees Committee originally met from October 2011 through August 2012 and researched how to restructure SWAN's Membership Fees. It made a recommendation to SWAN Board regarding models in which to assess membership fees, and presented its final report to the SWAN member library directors at the SWAN Quarterly meeting in September 2012. 

2012 committee members

  • Sheila Sosnicki, SWAN Council liaison, Palos Park Public Library
  • Dee Brennan, Oak Park Public Library
  • Doug Losey, Hillside Public Library
  • Christine Kuhn, Westmont Public Library
  • Kathy McSwain, Chicago Ridge Public Library

Committee Charge 2012 (PDF)

Final Recommendation Report 2015 (PDF)