President’s Column – Message from Incoming President
Posted on August 23, 2010 by kcarlson | No Comments
By Eileen Wakiji, California 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, engaging MLGSCA’s Financial Advisor to conduct a financial review and discussing the future of Joint Meetings. MLGSCA’s membership is based on a calendar year (January to December), however the “workings” of the organization go from July to June.
The 2010-11 AC members can be found at this link and I would also like to highlight the MLGSCA Benchmarking Liaison position. MLA headquarters has indicated 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 held the last MLA Benchmarking Liaison position and describes the benchmarking effort as very important role for librarians to know the status of other libraries and librarians because of the need for evidence based information. At the August 6th Budget Meeting, the AC approved the name change from MLA Benchmarking Liaison to MLGSCA Benchmarking Liaison and offered the role to Charlotte who has accepted.
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. 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’s time again to get ready for the fall semester to start the academic cycle all over again.
As the 2010-11 MLGSCA President, I would like to extend my best wishes to the membership for a Happy New Year!
*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’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” in 365 days. Don’t worry I am not going to overtake the MLGSCA Link blog and turn it into a project.
Posted 8/23/10
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