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- The arXiv Program Director, who will serve as the Board’s Chair. The Chair may vote to break a tie.
- The CUL arXiv IT manager and the CUL arXiv User Support manager, or other CUL staff as appointed by Cornell’s University Librarian. The role of these members is to provide information and participate in Board discussions.
- Two SAB representatives. The SAB and MAB operate in parallel, complementing each other and providing essential input for CUL. To this end, the SAB appoints two members to serve as non-voting ex officio members of MAB; MAB appoints two members to serve as non-voting ex officio members of the SAB.
2.1.3 Board Officers
a) ChairChair. The presiding officer of the MAB annual meeting is the Chair. The MAB shall elect the Chair from among the current Voting Board Members.
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3.1 MAB represents participating institutions’ interests and advises CUL on issues related to repository management and development, standards implementation, interoperability, development priorities, business planning, and outreach and advocacy. MAB also reviews and comments on arXiv budgets proposed by CUL. For agenda items that require decisions, MAB will review and comment on proposals submitted by CUL and may request additional information in support of their deliberations. MAB members can propose agenda items for discussion on topics within the scope of the group’s role. Some topics will require open discussion, and some matters with action items will necessitate decision-making. When the Chair determines that all Voting Board Members present are generally united in their judgment, he or she shall attempt to state clearly the “sense of the Board.”
3.2 A quorum requires the participation of a minimum eight voting Board members out of 13 (not including ex officio members).
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5. Committees
5.1 Elections Committee
5.1.1 The arXiv Program Director will initially appoint an Elections Committee of between three and five representatives from Contributing Organizations. The purpose of the first Elections Committee is to oversee the initial elections process.
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