{"id":1619,"date":"2025-05-27T08:24:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T13:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nmrt.ala.org\/notes\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2025-05-27T08:24:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T13:24:06","slug":"nmrt-annual-conference-professional-development-attendance-award-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nmrt.ala.org\/notes\/nmrt-annual-conference-professional-development-attendance-award-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"NMRT Annual Conference Professional Development Attendance Award\u00a02025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Congratulations to the winners of NMRT&#8217;s Annual Conference Professional Development Attendance award! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NMRT Annual Conference Professional Development Attendance Award fosters active involvement in ALA through various special events at the Annual Conference. The Annual Conference Professional Development Attendance Award is presented to two NMRT members each year. The award provides professional development and networking opportunities to NMRT members by providing a ticket to attend the event of their choice at the ALA Annual Conference.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please join us in congratulating:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Brittany Boggess<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nmrt.ala.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Brittany-Boggess-1-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"headshot of brittany boggess\" class=\"wp-image-1626 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nmrt.ala.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Brittany-Boggess-1-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.nmrt.ala.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Brittany-Boggess-1-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.nmrt.ala.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Brittany-Boggess-1-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nmrt.ala.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Brittany-Boggess-1-864x1536.jpg 864w, https:\/\/www.nmrt.ala.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Brittany-Boggess-1.jpg 1008w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Brittany Boggess is a first-year graduate student at Texas Woman&#8217;s University in Denton, Texas. She is a wife and proud mother of three.\u00a0 She enjoys reading and taking nature walks. Brittany is incredibly excited and grateful to have won the Annual Professional Development Attendance Award.\u00a0 Attending her first ALA Conference is a dream come true and this opportunity will allow her to fully engage, learn, and grow as she takes the next steps in her journey.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zachary &#8220;Zac&#8221; Grisham<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nmrt.ala.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/thumbnail_Grisham-Zac-Headshot-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"headshot of zac grisham\" class=\"wp-image-1627 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nmrt.ala.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/thumbnail_Grisham-Zac-Headshot-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.nmrt.ala.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/thumbnail_Grisham-Zac-Headshot-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.nmrt.ala.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/thumbnail_Grisham-Zac-Headshot-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nmrt.ala.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/thumbnail_Grisham-Zac-Headshot-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nmrt.ala.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/thumbnail_Grisham-Zac-Headshot-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/www.nmrt.ala.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/thumbnail_Grisham-Zac-Headshot-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Zac Grisham is the Business Librarian at Kansas State University. He holds degrees in economics, business administration, and library information studies. His research interests include librarian salaries and exploring new ways to apply business practices and ideas to librarianship.<br><br>Currently he serves on two national committees within ALA, the NMRT Mentorship Committee, where he also serves as a mentor, and the BRASS Membership Committee.\u00a0 Throughout his six years as a professional librarian he has supported multiple business schools within higher education.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to the winners of NMRT&#8217;s Annual Conference Professional Development Attendance award! The NMRT Annual Conference Professional Development Attendance Award fosters active involvement in ALA through various special events at the Annual Conference. The Annual Conference Professional Development Attendance Award &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nmrt.ala.org\/notes\/nmrt-annual-conference-professional-development-attendance-award-2025\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[13,295,339],"tags":[4,29,56],"class_list":["post-1619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annual","category-awards","category-professional-development-attendance-award","tag-annual-conference","tag-award","tag-new-members-round-table"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbhMj7-q7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nmrt.ala.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nmrt.ala.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nmrt.ala.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nmrt.ala.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nmrt.ala.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nmrt.ala.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nmrt.ala.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nmrt.ala.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nmrt.ala.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}