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ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE / KEY COMMITTEES / NATIONAL, REGIONAL & LODGE EDITORS
Following is some information about each of the committees:
Standards Committee (Tracy Mesler): A committee of eight individuals, each with several decades of cataloging experience, have agreed to serve on the committee. The committee has identified a number of 'issues' that need to be addressed, dissected and then decisions made (i.e.: how to handle lodges that elect to not choose a lodge number), but before the priorities are established, the Standards Committee wants to hear from collectors. As we start to review, tweak, revise, and hopefully clarify the cataloging standards originally developed by the Blue Book, we want to have full involvement. We are in the process of setting up a Standards blog page accessible from the ISCA website, with various topics for discussion. A set time period for comment will be listed, typically 30 days for major topics, possibly shorter for minor topics. After comments are received, then the Standards Committee will review the comments and suggestions and then will revise and/or create a standard -- actually a series of standards -- which will be used by the lodge and section editors in their cataloging and approval. The current standards and the procedure used to change the standards are listed on the ISCA website. If you have any comments for the standards committee or want to suggest topics now, just send an email to Tracy Mesler (tracymesler@yahoo.com).
Editors Committee : The Editors Committee consists of a National Editor Coordinator, four Regional Coordinators, an undetermined number of Area Coordinators and of course lots of lodge Editors.
In particular, we need people to volunteer to be Area Coordinators and lodge Editors for both current and past lodges – every lodge needs to be covered in some manner. Interested individuals (do not have to be a member of ISCA) need to contact the respective Area Coordinator or Regional Editor to volunteer and/or to ask questions. To see a little bit about what the job involves, see the Blue book procedure and/or job descriptions for Blue Book in section 9.
The Regional Coordinators are listed above in the organization chart along with their emails.
All of the confirmed area coordinators and lodge editors are listed below in the appropriate Regional listing as follows:
OA Lodge Editors and Area Coordinators PDF's
Western Region
Last Modified:
2/25/2017
Northeast Region
Last Modified:
2/25/2017
Southern Region
Last Modified:
2/25/2017
Central Region
Last Modified:
2/25/2017
Appeals Committee (Dave Thomas): Five individuals with years of OA and cataloging experience have agreed to sit on the Appeals Committee. It is in the process of developing its procedures for handling cataloging disagreements that aren't resolved within either the Standards or Editors Committees. This gives an open, expert review process that did not exist in prior OA cataloging efforts. We still need to generate the procedures yet, but present thoughts are that once an item has been entered into the on-line database and has been approved by a local Editor, that then everyone will have six months to file a written dispute if they disagree with the decision. If unresolved by the Editors Committee (involving the local Editor, Area Editor, Regional Editor, and the National Editor), then it will be referred to the Appeals Committee. The person filing the dispute will need to present real documentary evidence (minimum criteria will be defined) to support the position about an item and the Appeals Committee will arbitrate the matter similar to general arbitration with documents, lodge histories, etc. This will be the ongoing process for new items added. We will develop a special procedure and timing to address items that are currently listed in previous Blue Book volumes.
Note: This organizational structure is maintained on the ISCA website (www.ScoutTrader.org) in Section 8, “Organizational Structure / Key Committees / Lodge Editors – Assignments & Contact Information”.
