NCASL Section has awarded a scholarship to a practicing school librarian to attend the NCLA Leadership Institute. The scholarship recipient is Robin Boltz, a school librarian in Granville County and a master's student in library science at East Carolina University. I hope that she will agree to serve the remainder of the 2001-2003 biennium as Vice Chair and work with me to plan exciting programs for school librarians to be presented at the 2003 NCLA Biennial Conference and agree to service as Chair of the section during the 2003-2005 biennium.

Diane Kester and I will continue to serve as representatives of NCASL at the American Association of School Librarians Affiliate Assembly meetings to be held at the midwinter and summer conferences of the American Library Association. NCASL is a recognized state chapter of AASL.

To continue to be represented in the AASL Affiliate Assembly, it is required that all chapters have at least ten percent of current NCASL membership who are also members of AASL. Diane Kester and I have filled out the AASL Affiliate Assembly survey that shows that we have 21 out of 86 NCASL members who are also AASL members. This represents 24.4% so we are in great shape. We encourage more NCASL members to join AASL also so that we continue to have a voice in the Affiliate Assembly.

Al Jones, Chair, NCASL Section