Agenda for the 2024 Delegate Assembly Meeting
The upcoming Delegate Assembly meeting (session 507A) will take place at the 2024 MLA Annual Convention in Philadelphia, beginning at 12:30 p.m. EST on Saturday, 6 January. Among the agenda items that delegates will consider are regular staff and committee reports on association activities, the scheduled annual increase of 2.5% in the membership dues amounts, a resolution on divestment, a motion on library access, and any new business that comes before the assembly.
Members who are interested in sharing comments on the resolution with the Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee (DAOC) may post them in the Resolution 2024–1 Group on MLA Commons. (An MLA Commons log-in is required.) Members may also attend the Open Hearing on Resolutions (session 226), which is scheduled for Friday, 5 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m. EST.
Since the 1 September deadline for submitting motions and regular resolutions has passed, only emergency motions may be added to the Delegate Assembly agenda. Members may submit emergency motions to the chair of the DAOC up to twenty-four hours before the start of the assembly meeting (no later than 12:30 p.m. EST on Friday, 5 January). Members may submit a motion by attending the Open Hearing of the Delegate Assembly (session 261), which is scheduled for Friday, 5 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m. EST. They may also email the coordinator of governance the text of their motion by 12:30 p.m. EST on Friday, 5 January. Please include “Emergency Motion” in the subject line of your message. See the two sections on motions on the Motions and Resolutions page for more information.