<div dir="auto">Very happy to hear that a new State Librarian has been chosen.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I just wanted to say that the link for ASGCLA goes to something else entirely. This is a division that was recently dissolved which probably explains the problem with an old link. Here is the information on the ALA site, <div><a href="https://www.ala.org/asgcla/about">https://www.ala.org/asgcla/about</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 10:31 AM HOOVER Nancy * SLO via Libs-Or <<a href="mailto:libs-or@omls.oregon.gov">libs-or@omls.oregon.gov</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">The State Library of Oregon is pleased to announce that Wendy Cornelisen will join us as our new State Librarian effective March 1, 2022. Wendy comes to the State Library with over 15 years of progressive
leadership positions in libraries. Wendy started her library career as a Reference Librarian in a public library outside of Nashville, TN. Her next position was managing the Tennessee Electronic Library, a statewide resource, at the Tennessee State Library
& Archives. In 2014, she became the Assistant State Librarian at the Georgia Public Library Service where, in 2021, Wendy served as the Georgia Library Association President.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(254,254,254)"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Wendy has an MLIS from University of Tennessee, Knoxville and a B.S. in Anthropology from Iowa State University. In 2020, she was
</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,17,17)">awarded both the 2020
</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;letter-spacing:-0.2pt;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background-color:white;color:black">ALA-ASGCLA**</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">
</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,17,17)">Leadership & Professional Achievement Award and the
</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">School of Information Science Alumni Innovator Award. These were awarded in
</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;letter-spacing:-0.2pt;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background-color:white;color:rgb(57,57,57)">recognition of her many years of accomplished service to the libraries of Tennessee and Georgia, and for her dedication
and leadership in building a state-wide eBook service for Georgia’s youngest readers, a service that was heavily used during the pandemic.
<u style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></u><u style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></u></span></p>
<p style="vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(254,254,254)"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;letter-spacing:-0.2pt;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background-color:white;color:rgb(57,57,57)">For those attending the PLA Conference, Wendy is co-presenting
a session titled “The Georgia Approach to EDI: Multiple Agency Initiatives” on Friday March 25 at 3:30. This is part of the session description: “</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41)">Learn how the Georgia Library Association,
Georgia Public Library Service and the Society of Georgia Archivists worked together to develop EDI statements, tools and supports for the public library landscape in our state”.
</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;letter-spacing:-0.2pt;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background-color:white;color:rgb(57,57,57)"><u style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></u><u style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></u></span></p>
<p style="vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(254,254,254)"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;letter-spacing:-0.2pt;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background-color:white;color:rgb(57,57,57)">** The Association for Specialized Government and Cooperative Library
Agencies (ASGCLA), </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://asgcladirect.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;letter-spacing:-0.2pt;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background-color:white;color:rgb(32,57,157)">https://asgcladirect.org/</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;letter-spacing:-0.2pt;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background-color:white;color:rgb(57,57,57)"> <u style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></u><u style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5pt"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Nancy Hoover (she, her, hers)<u style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"></u><u style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"></u></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><a href="mailto:nancy.hoover@slo.oregon.gov" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">nancy.hoover@slo.oregon.gov</span></a>
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</blockquote></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><em><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt">Diedre Conkling</span></em><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt"><br></span></i><a href="mailto:diedre08@gmail.com" target="_blank"><em><span style="color:blue;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt">diedre08@gmail.com</span></em></a></div>
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