{"id":2290,"date":"2010-11-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2010\/11\/09\/slagell-elected-councilor-for-american-library-association\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:07:31","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:07:31","slug":"slagell-elected-councilor-for-american-library-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2010\/11\/slagell-elected-councilor-for-american-library-association\/","title":{"rendered":"Slagell elected councilor for American Library Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"246\" align=\"left\" width=\"219\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/2010Releases\/Slagell.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff Slagell\" class=\"caption\" \/>Jeff Slagell, dean of Library Services at Delta State University, has been elected American Library Association Councilor for the state of Mississippi. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Slagell will serve as a liaison between the Mississippi Library Association and the American Library Association and vote on behalf of the state of Mississippi at national meetings.<\/p>\n<p>The American Library Association was established in 1876 and has over 60,000 members which include public, school, college, university, and special librarians.&nbsp; As the nation&rsquo;s largest and oldest library organization, it provides leadership for the development, promotion, and improvement of library and information services. The association&rsquo;s council serves as its governing body and determines all policies for divisions to carry out programs and activities across the country. <\/p>\n<p>Slagell also serves as chair of the Mississippi University Library Directors&rsquo; Council and as a member of the Mississippi Alliance for Gaining New Opportunities through Library Information Access (MAGNOLIA) steering committee. He has previously served as president and vice president of the Mississippi Library Association. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Slagell, dean of Library Services at Delta State University, has been elected&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41346,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions\/41346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}