January Meeting Photos

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Posted by Cache Valley Library Association on Friday, 22 January 2016

Election Results

The results are in and our 2016 Executive Committee will be:

President: JaDene Denniston (Mountainside Elementary, retired)
Vice President / President Elect: Paul Daybell (North Logan City Library)
Past President: Liz Woolcott (USU Merrill-Cazier Library)
Secretary: Karen Bowling (Smithfield Public Library)
Member at Large (Academic): Jennifer Duncan (USU Merrill-Cazier Library)
Member at Large (Public): Jason Cornelius (Logan Library)
Member at Large (School): Noelle Harrild (Thomas Edison Charter School North)

Please plan to attend our next business meeting on Thursday, January 21 [updated] at 4:30 PM at Mountain Crest High School in Hyrum where our new leaders will be presented to the membership and you'll be able to congratulate them in person.

Thank you to everyone who voted and everyone who was on the ballot. Our organization stands on the participation of its members.

2016 Nominating Committee
Joseph N. Anderson, Chair
Liz Woolcott
JaDene Denniston
Darcy Pumphrey
Melanie Peterson

Jan Brett Visit!

From janbrett.com/index.html

From facebook.com/byjanbrett

We are very excited to be partnering with Penguin Random House and The King's English Bookshop to host beloved children's author Jan Brett in Logan!

When: Friday, December 11 at 6:00 PM
Where: Mount Logan Middle School (875 N 200 E, Logan)

This event is free and open to the public.

Ms. Brett will be on a cross-country tour promoting her latest book, The Turnip. Ms. Brett will give a talk about the book, a demonstration of her illustration techniques, and will sign copies of her books, which will be sold on-site by The King’s English.

We're also very excited that our own Melanie Peterson from Ellis Elementary won Ms. Brett's Lunch on the Bus contest! Congratulations!

Please share this information widely! You can tell your Facebook friends that you are attending here.

Call for Library Hero Award Nominations

Is there someone in the library profession or the Cache Valley community who deserves the title of "Library Hero"? Then now is the time to brag about them!

To nominate someone as the 2016 CVLA Library Hero, click here.

Tell us about your nominee at the link above. The deadline for submissions is Dec. 11, 2015. The award will be presented at the January 14, 2016 meeting of the Cache Valley Library Association.

Please note: nominees do NOT need to be employed by a library to win. There is no limit on the number of people you can nominate.

Examples of library service include:

• working or volunteering in libraries 
• developing new, innovative, pertinent, or effective library programming
• promoting libraries
• standing up for library principles in a challenging situation
• completing library related projects 

and the list doesn't end there!  We look forward to your nominations!