The last day to submit a name to nominate for the Board or President is May 12th.
I always hear on various discussion groups or from people personally that they are fed up with MLA.
- MLA isn’t going in the right direction.
- What has MLA done for me lately?
- What is MLA doing to help hospital librarians, academic librarians, etc.?
- MLA is just an “old boys club” unless you have a name you don’t get on any committees.
- MLA is unresponsive to the needs of the real medical librarian.
You get the idea. My response is: “What have you done to help shape MLA and change things you find to be a problem?”
Well now is the perfect opportunity for you to help shape the future of MLA. The 2014 Nominating Committee is asking YOU, the members, to submit the names of fellow members who you think would be good to serve as a Board member or President and who will lead us for the next three years.
Please read through the process for selecting candidates and electing the MLA president-elect and members of the MLA Board http://www.mlanet.org/members/pdf/2009_bylaws.pdf (pages 2–3 MUST be MLA member and logged in to MLANET to read this document).
The slate will contain at least two candidates for president-elect (president during 2016/17) and at least four candidates for the two vacant board positions (2015–2018).
Job descriptions:
President http://www.mlanet.org/pdf/mla_officer_jobdesc_201002.pdf
Board members http://www.mlanet.org/pdf/mla_bod_jobdesc_200905.pdf
You are responsible for the direction and shape of MLA. You can either actively shape it or you can indirectly shape it through inaction.
Submit your candidates to the MLA 2014/2015 Nominating Committee:
- Jane Blumenthal, Chair – janeblum[at sign] umich [dot]edu
- Amy Blevins – blevinsamy[at sign] gmail [dot] com
- Jonathan Eldredge – jeldredge [at sign] salud.unm [dot] edu
- Susan Fowler – susanfowler.library [at sign] gmail [dot] com
- Mark E. Funk – mefunk [at sign] med.cornell [dot] edu
- Sally Gore – Sally.Gore [at sign] umassmed [dot] edu
- Heather N. Holmes – holmesh [at sign] summahealth [dot] org
- T. Scott Plutchak – tscott [at sign] uab [dot] edu
- James Shedlock – jshedlock [at sign] rcn [dot] com
- Laurie L. Thompson – lauriethompson [at sign] ymail [dot] com