{"id":788,"date":"2008-06-02T10:19:49","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T10:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2008\/06\/02\/delta-states-slagell-elected-president-of-the-mississippi-library-association\/"},"modified":"2013-09-03T12:55:41","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T12:55:41","slug":"delta-states-slagell-elected-president-of-the-mississippi-library-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2008\/06\/delta-states-slagell-elected-president-of-the-mississippi-library-association\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State&#8217;s Slagell elected President of the Mississippi Library Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"216\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/01Slagell.jpg\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Jeff Slagell, director of Library Services at Delta State University, has been elected president of the Mississippi Library Association.&nbsp; Slagell will lead the multifaceted organization whose members include public, school, college, university, and special librarians from throughout Mississippi.<\/font> <\/p>\n<div><span>The Mississippi Library Association provides professional development opportunities for librarians and works to improve library services and library support for the benefit of all Mississippians.&nbsp; The organization was established in 1909 and is an official state chapter of the American Library Association. <\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span>During the past year Slagell served the Association as its vice president.&nbsp; His responsibilities included planning and coordinating the association&rsquo;s annual meeting.&nbsp; The October 2007 conference in Vicksburg drew in excess of 500 attendees who participated in 50 program sessions and events.&nbsp; Pauline La Rooy from the National Library of New Zealand served as the keynote speaker and numerous authors from across the country were featured on the program.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span>Previously Slagell served the Mississippi Library Association in various other capacities including Chair of the Association of College and Research Libraries section.&nbsp; He also serves on the Executive Board of the North American Serials Interest Group, Mississippi University Library Director&rsquo;s Council, and MAGNOLIA (Mississippi Alliance for Gaining New Opportunities through Library Information Access) Steering Committee.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Slagell, director of Library Services at Delta State University, has been elected president of the Mississippi Library Association.&nbsp; Slagell will lead the multifaceted organization whose members include public, school,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788","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\/788","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=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41860,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/41860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}