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a) Chair. The presiding officer of the MAB annual meeting is the Chair. The MAB shall elect the Chair from among the current Voting Board Members. arXiv Program Director.
b) Other Officers. The Board may elect other officers as it deems necessary.
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5.1.2 Every two years after the initial election, the MAB Chair or the Chair’s designee will submit for the Board’s approval a list of members to serve on the Election Committee. This list will contain no less than three and no more than five individuals and representatives from Contributing Organizations that do not currently have a representative serving on the Board. The Board Chair will be a voting ex officio member of the Election Committee.
5.1.3 The Elections Committee will determine the voting process, gather nominations, review the candidates proposed by the member institutions, and oversee voting.
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Within the confinement of arXiv principles, these Bylaws may be amended and new articles may be adopted by the consensual agreement of all Board members then in office. Depending on the assessment of the Board ChairarXiv Program Director, the changes may need to be reviewed by the SAB, Cornell’s University Librarian, or the Cornell Counsel.
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Posted on October 4, 2012
Revisions on October 9, 2012, minor typos
Revision on October 6, 2014 (corrected number of 2-year terms)
Revision on December 17, 2014 (corrected a typo in 2.3.2)
Revision on December 17, 2014 (reset the number of 2- and 4-year appointments to correct the October 6, 2012 revision)
Revision on August 4, 2015 (The initial idea of 2-4 year staggering terms did not take into consideration the time needed for the group to come together as a team around a common set of goals and identify productive ways of contributing to arXiv. Given the fact that MAB is a new governance unit, we feel that the first couple of years were spent in clarifying and better formulating the actual role of MAB in arXiv's governance. MAB unanimously decided to modify 2.3.1: Elected Elected members of MAB will serve staggered four-year terms. Board members will be divided into two types of approximately equal size. The first MAB appointments during December 2012 will include seven voting members with six-year four-year appointments and six voting members with four-year two-year appointments.)
Revision on May 26, 2016 (corrected a typo, missing space)
Revision on Revision on May 26, 2016, Chair position added as Jim Mullins, MAB Member and Dean of Libraries, Purdue University Libraries volunteered to assume the role, which was approved by MAB as a pilot implementation.
Revision on January 5, 2017 to correct 1.3 as arXiv team titles have changed
Revision on December 4, 2017, references to Chair have been modified as a decision was made during the 2017 MAB Annual Meeting for the arXiv Program Director to play the role, as originally included in the Bylaws.