We need to send out a shout of congratulations to Roy Degler. He won the
Oklahoma Library Association: OUTSTANDING NEW LIBRARIAN AWARD.
This award is granted to an individual librarian in recognition of significant contributions to the profession of librarianship and potential for professional development. The recipient of this award must have five or fewer [...]
I arrived yesterday to attend the Oklahoma Conference – my first state that I planned on visiting during my President year.
I thought I would give you some highlights of the conference.
I was greeted at the airport by Barbara Ray and her friend Carla, and that evening was the beginning of their conference – the OLA [...]
I was trying to think of something to blog about – as an MPLA staff member, I should contribute more to MPLA 2.0 than I do. I thought I’d share an interesting story from the conference last week – a story you likely only heard about if you were at the president’s suite party that [...]
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As a general announcement, we’re planning to post handouts for the upcoming KLA/MPLA conference in April, as we have in the past.
Presenters: if you would like to share your presentation materials (power point, word, pfd files) please feel free to pass them along to MPLA Webmaster Dan Chaney at dan.chaney@okstate.edu
There is no deadline, per se. [...]
Do you know a deserving individual in the library field who should be recognized for his/her accomplishments? If so, please nominate him/her for an MPLA Award!!!
Awards will be given at the 2009 MPLA Joint Conference with the Kansas Library Association in Wichita, Kansas, in March 31-April 4, 2009. The MPLA Awards Committee is seeking nominees [...]
The final deadline to submit individual grant requests this year is December 3, 2008. Eligibility requirements:
Resident of a state in the MPLA region
Membership in MPLA (for mini grants of $150 or less the applicant must be a current member of MPLA and must have been a member for the past full calendar year; for regular [...]
MPLA uses MemberClicks, an online membership maintenance service, for its Directory. The information is available only to members, not to the public.
At the MPLA website: www.mpla.us, use the login section at the lower left of the MPLA homepage.
Login with your username and password. If you don’t remember these, click on “Forgot Your Password” (be sure to [...]
Well, I promised our new community portal administrator (CPA? Too bad the pay’s not quite in that same league with other CPAs) I’d draft a blog entry to help make the community portal appear to have some activity, when members begin exploring.
We’re sprucing the MPLA website up in concert with rolling out the new member community – I think we’re going to call the electronic communities MPLA 2.0 –