{"id":451,"date":"2015-03-31T16:20:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T21:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmrt.ala.org\/notes\/?p=451"},"modified":"2015-03-31T16:20:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T21:20:47","slug":"councilor-report-welcome-to-our-interim-councilor-margaret-howard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nmrt.ala.org\/notes\/councilor-report-welcome-to-our-interim-councilor-margaret-howard\/","title":{"rendered":"Councilor Report &#038; Welcome to Our Interim Councilor, Margaret Howard!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Jennings, NMRT&#8217;s former councilor, has finished her write-up for Council actions at the 2015 ALA Midwinter meeting. Please see her blog <a title=\"https:\/\/sljsconferenceblog.wordpress.com\/\" href=\"https:\/\/sljsconferenceblog.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for an update on what&#8217;s happening for ALA in the coming year.<\/p>\n<p>While Susan has been an excellent councilor for NMRT, she will no longer be able to perform this function for us. Fortunately, we have a wonderful interim councilor through June 30, 2016, Margaret Howard, who is very excited to work with us! Below is a little about Margaret in her own words.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmrt.ala.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/mhoward-pic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-378\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmrt.ala.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/mhoward-pic-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"mhoward pic\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nmrt.ala.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/mhoward-pic-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/www.nmrt.ala.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/mhoward-pic-757x1024.jpg 757w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am Margaret Howard, your new NMRT Councilor. I am an Assistant Branch Manager at Chesterfield County Public Library, a nine-branch system located in the suburbs of Richmond, VA. I was a member of the 2013 ALA Emerging Leaders class and was sponsored by NMRT. I chaired the NMRT Vice-Presidential Planning Committee 2013-2014 during Megan Hodge?s tenure as Vice President, and I currently serve as Co-Chair of the NMRT Mentoring Committee. I was a member of the NMRT mentoring committee 2013-2014, served as a NMRT Liaison 2012-2013, and the LLAMA Continuing Education Committee 2013-2015. In addition to my participation in ALA I am an active member of the Virginia Library Association (VLA) and currently serve as VLA NMRT Chair. I served as VLA NMRT Chair-Elect 2013-2014 and as VLA Secretary\/Treasurer 2012-2013. I have been on the Library Quarterly Review Board since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>My plan for keeping NMRT members up to date on council is through a blog <a title=\"http:\/\/www.fancylibrarian.wordpress.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fancylibrarian.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">fancylibrarian.wordpress.com<\/a> and notifying members of new posts through NMRT-L and coordinating with NMRT Secretary on NMRT social media outlets. In addition to thorough blog posts I would also include a ?tl;dr? highlighted version of council happenings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks Margaret for stepping up to the plate for NMRT and keeping us so well informed!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Jennings, NMRT&#8217;s former councilor, has finished her write-up for Council actions at the 2015 ALA Midwinter meeting. Please see her blog here for an update on what&#8217;s happening for ALA in the coming year. While Susan has been an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nmrt.ala.org\/notes\/councilor-report-welcome-to-our-interim-councilor-margaret-howard\/\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbhMj7-7h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nmrt.ala.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","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=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nmrt.ala.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nmrt.ala.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nmrt.ala.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nmrt.ala.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}