Book Club Specialist Responsibilites

Book Club Specialist Responsibilities

1. The Book Club Specialist will call the Relief Society Secretary by the end of each month to ask her to publish the book to be read for the following month in “Keeping Posted” and will also ask her to announce it in Relief Society and/or to post it on the Relief Society clipboard. (When possible, try to give her a tentative list of about six months in advance instead of calling her each month)

2. A member of the book club will volunteer, or be chosen, to serve as Book Club Specialist for a period of one year – January to December, in an annual business meeting. The Book Club Specialist will choose a date and time when nearly everyone can attend this annual business meeting. It can be held at any book review that has previously been scheduled (it usually takes about 20 minutes). At this meeting members will choose the books they most want to review from the Book Club Wish List, and they will sign up for a month when they can serve as a hostess. The Book Club Bylaws may be circulated and read at this meeting.

3. The Book Club Specialist will keep a folder or binder with the following current information:

1. A Calling List of Attendees

2. A list of the books previously reviewed in Book Club

3. A list of recommended books for the current year; this will include a month-by-month list of both books to be reviewed and hostesses for the books being reviewed

4. A “Wish List” of books to be considered for the following year – Members will want to add their ideas and recommendations to this list from time to time so I find it helpful to bring this binder to each book club I am able to attend

5. The “Book Club Bylaws” for the current year. This will probably need to be adjusted and amended by the Book Club Specialist on an annual basis or as the needs and desires of the group change.