President’s column
Posted on March 7, 2011 by kcarlson | No Comments
By Eileen Wakiji, 2010-11 MLGSCA President
The 2011 Joint Meeting and Update!
I was pleased to see the number of MLGSCA members at the 2011 Joint Meeting, February 23 to 26th, in San Francisco. NCNMLG members, however, outnumbered MLGSCA members but that is to be expected since NCNMLG hosted the meeting. For those MLGSCA members who were unable to make the Joint Meeting, you did miss a good meeting: San Francisco, Parc55 Hotel, plenary speakers, CE courses, exhibitors, presenters, wine & food were all excellent. San Francisco was abuzz with the possibility of snow for the first time in 35 years, but I guess NCNMLG could not make it snow for the Joint Meeting although they did everything else!
In previous posts of the MLGSCA Link (HOT OFF THE PRESS – JM POSTERS and HOT OFF THE PRESS – JM PAPERS ), you can see how many MLGSCA members actively participated. Yay!
At the MLGSCA Business Meeting on February 24th, I gave a President’s Update which I will briefly summarize here. With the 2011 Spring CE and Business Meeting, MLGSCA will have used MLA’s MegaMeeting for the third time. Since MLGSCA is the first MLA Chapter to use MegaMeeting Becky Birr, Lisa Marks, and I participated in a conference call with Julia Shaw-Kokot, Chapter Council Chair; wrote an article for the MLA News Chapter Council Column; and presented a poster, Professional Development Opportunities for ALL: Using MLA’s MegaMeeting, at the Joint Meeting.
MLGSCA changed its registration service to Cvent and the 2011 membership is the first registration event with Cvent. The MLGSCA BYLAWS are being updated and will ultimately be sent to the membership for their approval. The Advisory Council will be meeting to discuss whether or not to host a 2013 Joint Meeting after receiving MLGSCA’s CPA (Vavrinek, Trine, Day & Co.) financial review.
Since the MLA Annual Meeting is in Seattle in 2012, MLGSCA will not be sponsoring a 2012 Joint Meeting. The Awards Committee will be announcing the winners of the various awards including student scholarship winners at the Spring Business Meeting. In addition to the Spring CE on April 8th, please consider attending the Spring Business Meeting in person at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank or at your office desktop via MegaMeeting.
And of course the big news which I did not know at the Joint Meeting was that MLGSCA is the recipient of the 2011 Majors/MLA Chapter Project of the Year Award. Lisa Marks and I submitted the application for the award describing MLGSCA’s project, Using MLA’s MegaMeeting for MLGSCA’s 2010 Spring CE and Business Meeting. The following description of the award is taken from the mlanet website.
This general award, sponsored by J.A. Majors, recognizes excellence, innovation and contribution to the profession of health sciences librarianship. These attributes must be shown through special projects beyond the normal operational programming of the chapter.
All that MLGSCA achieves as a chapter should be credited to its amazing members and celebrated!
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