{"id":5635,"date":"2015-06-23T20:20:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T03:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/?p=5635"},"modified":"2015-06-23T20:20:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T03:20:05","slug":"nominate-a-colleague-for-the-mlgsca-paraprofessional-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/?p=5635","title":{"rendered":"Nominate a colleague for the MLGSCA Paraprofessional of the Year Award!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know a paraprofessional who deserves to be recognized for the great work she or he does in a medical library? Nominate her or him for the MLGSCA Paraprofessional of the Year Award by July 1!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Purpose<\/strong><br \/>\nThe purpose of the Outstanding Health Sciences Library Paraprofessional of the Year Award is to honor an outstanding library paraprofessional in a health sciences library\u00a0<em><strong>and<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0to recognize the critical role and important contributions library paraprofessionals make to the development and evolution of modern health sciences libraries and librarianship.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Criteria<\/strong><br \/>\nConsiderations\/criteria for nominating a paraprofessional for this award include, but are not limited to, a paraprofessional that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provides consistently, excellent library service.<\/li>\n<li>Continually suggests improvements or innovative ideas and is willing to take the lead in making good suggestions a reality.<\/li>\n<li>Encourages and promotes the library\u2019s mission, facilities and resources.<\/li>\n<li>Enhances the promotion and marketing endeavors of the library through facilitating productive, effective communication between users and the library.<\/li>\n<li>Is professionally curious and is willing to take risks, even if that means moving beyond their comfort zone.<\/li>\n<li>Is a lifelong learner and regularly attends training or other local or regional events to improve their skills and knowledge base.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Nominations<\/strong><br \/>\nNominations can be made by any MLGSCA member and sent to the <a href=\"mailto:laura.stubblefield@sharp.com\" target=\"_blank\">Awards Committee chair<\/a>. Please use the available\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mlgsca.mlanet.org\/forms\/Outstanding_paraprofessional_nomination_form.pdf\">form<\/a>.\u00a0<strong>Nomination deadline is July 1st<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frequency and Number of Awards<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Outstanding Health Sciences Library Paraprofessional of the Year Award is given annually to one outstanding paraprofessional in a health sciences library.\u00a0 If there are no suitable candidates nominated, the award is not given. The award is usually presented by the MLGSCA President during the Fall Meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know a paraprofessional who deserves to be recognized for the great work she or he does in a medical library? Nominate her or him for the MLGSCA Paraprofessional of the Year Award by July 1! Purpose The purpose of the Outstanding Health Sciences Library Paraprofessional of the Year Award is to honor an [&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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635"}],"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=5635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5636,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635\/revisions\/5636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}