{"id":5561,"date":"2014-10-30T15:12:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T22:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/?p=5561"},"modified":"2014-10-30T15:12:23","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T22:12:23","slug":"nancy-olmos-wins-mlgsca-paraprofessional-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/?p=5561","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Olmos wins MLGSCA Paraprofessional of the Year Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5563\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Nancy-Olmos.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5563\" class=\"wp-image-5563 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Nancy-Olmos-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Nancy-Olmos\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Nancy-Olmos-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Nancy-Olmos.jpg 341w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5563\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">L to R: USC Libraries Dean Catherine Quinlan, Nancy Olmos, Annie Hughes Thompson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Nancy has worked for the Wilson Dental Library (WDL) at the University of Southern California for 7 years as a Technical Services Assistant.\u00a0 Nancy continually goes above and beyond her daily work to improve the service and quality of the library.\u00a0 Customer service is key in any library however; Nancy has taken it to the next level.\u00a0 She even presented a paper at the 2013 MLGSCA\/NCNMLG Joint Meeting in La Jolla, CA titled: \u201cTraining Library Staff to Provide Excellent Customer Service: Opportunities for Collaboration and Leadership.\u201d\u00a0 At the same meeting, she also presented a poster titled: \u201cOne Wave at a Time: Embracing Change to Increase the Efficiency of Library Services.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cShe has worked very hard processing books, ordering items from Rittenhouse, processing gifts\/donations, supervising students, managing over dues and manning the circulation desk.\u00a0 Each of these tasks was given great attention and she still managed to go beyond and think of innovative ideas to improve the library and its services\u201d said Annie Hughes Thompson in her nomination of Nancy.\u00a0 Nancy recently completed her MSLS and will begin a new position on November 3<sup>rd<\/sup> with the Norris Medical Library, University of Southern California as Head, Metadata &amp; Content Management Librarian. Congratulations Nancy on all 3 counts: your degree, your award and your new position!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy has worked for the Wilson Dental Library (WDL) at the University of Southern California for 7 years as a Technical Services Assistant.\u00a0 Nancy continually goes above and beyond her daily work to improve the service and quality of the library.\u00a0 Customer service is key in any library however; Nancy has taken it to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,103],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5561"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5564,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5561\/revisions\/5564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}