{"id":2063,"date":"2010-08-23T11:30:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T18:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/?p=2063"},"modified":"2010-11-04T17:26:46","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T00:26:46","slug":"presidents-column-message-from-incoming-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/?p=2063","title":{"rendered":"President’s Column – Message from Incoming President"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Eileen Wakiji,\u00a0California State University, Long Beach, MLGSCA President<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Happy New Year!*<\/p>\n

A new year has begun and the Advisory Council (AC) is already in motion to accomplish some things,\u00a0 engaging MLGSCA\u2019s Financial Advisor to conduct a financial review and discussing\u00a0 the future of Joint Meetings. MLGSCA\u2019s membership is based on a calendar year (January to December), however\u00a0 the \u201cworkings\u201d of the organization go from July to June.<\/p>\n

The 2010-11 AC members can be found at this link<\/strong><\/a> and I would also like to highlight the MLGSCA Benchmarking Liaison position. MLA headquarters has\u00a0indicated that the MLA benchmarking program is in transition but suggested that if the benchmarking role is useful to our chapter we should keep the position. Charlotte McClamma, Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego \u00a0held the last MLA Benchmarking Liaison position and describes the benchmarking effort as very important role\u00a0for librarians to know the status of other libraries and librarians\u00a0because of the need for evidence based information. At the August 6th Budget Meeting, the AC approved the name change\u00a0from MLA<\/strong> Benchmarking Liaison to MLGSCA<\/strong> Benchmarking Liaison and offered the role to Charlotte who has accepted.<\/p>\n

I know it is not unusual to start anew in the summer since many of us do so every year because of our work, e.g., a fiscal year that goes from July to June or new medical students and residents starting in July.\u00a0 For me, I try to use the summer to catch up and get to those projects I have set aside until I can devote some quality time to them. Now that it is August though, it\u2019s time again to get ready for the fall semester to start the academic cycle all over again.<\/p>\n

As the 2010-11 MLGSCA President, I would like to extend my best wishes to the membership for a Happy New Year!<\/p>\n

*Unfortunately I started this column in July but was finally inspired to finish this column while watching the DVD Julie & Julia. Julie has decided to blog, The Julie\/Julia Project, about her experience of cooking 524 recipes from Julia Child\u2019s \u201cMastering the Art of French Cooking\u201d in 365 days. Don\u2019t worry I am not going to overtake the MLGSCA Link blog and turn it into a project.<\/em><\/p>\n

Posted 8\/23\/10<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Eileen Wakiji,\u00a0California State University, Long Beach, MLGSCA President Happy New Year!* A new year has begun and the Advisory Council (AC) is already in motion to accomplish some things,\u00a0 engaging MLGSCA\u2019s Financial Advisor to conduct a financial review and discussing\u00a0 the future of Joint Meetings. MLGSCA\u2019s membership is based on a calendar year (January […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2063"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2097,"href":"https:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions\/2097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}