{"id":519,"date":"2014-01-28T10:04:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T16:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=519"},"modified":"2016-07-17T20:42:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T00:42:59","slug":"glbtrt-midwinter-news-executive-board-and-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/519","title":{"rendered":"GLBTRT Midwinter News: ALA Executive Board and Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GLBTRT Members Elected to Executive Board:<\/strong> GLBT Round Table members Peter Hepburn and Gina Persichini have been elected to the ALA Executive Board. Though they&#8217;re not ones to brag, we&#8217;re very proud on their behalf of the fact that they were elected by the two largest margins among any of the members joining Executive Board. Congratulations to them both! They will begin their three year terms at the last ALA Executive Board meeting of Annual 2014. Mike Marlin, another GLBT Round Table member, was also elected to the ALA Executive Board for a shorter term. (<em>We apologize for this earlier omission! -JMF)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For more information about the ALA Executive Board, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/aboutala\/governance\/officers\">click here<\/a>\u00a0(or view their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/aboutala\/sites\/ala.org.aboutala\/files\/content\/governance\/officers\/eb__info_documents\/ebd_mem_job_descrip.pdf\">official job description<\/a>). Also, you can find a complete list of ALA Executive Board members <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/aboutala\/governance\/officers\/directory\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Awards Season Announcements:\u00a0<\/strong>It&#8217;s awards season, and not just for the Grammy&#8217;s and endless film awards. The GLBTRT has announced its 2014 <a title=\"Rainbow Project Announces the Final 2014 Rainbow List!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/488\">Rainbow List<\/a>, <a title=\"Over The Rainbow Project Announces Its 2014 Book List!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/500\">Over the Rainbow List<\/a>, and <a title=\"2014 Stonewall Book Awards Announced!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/513\">Stonewall Book Awards<\/a> winners. Click on the links to view our news posts about each award. A big thanks to everyone who served on a committee this year. These all look awesome!<\/p>\n<p>Updated: January 29, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GLBTRT Members Elected to Executive Board: GLBT Round Table members Peter Hepburn and Gina Persichini have been elected to the ALA Executive Board. Though they&#8217;re not ones to brag, we&#8217;re very proud on their behalf of the fact that they were elected by the two largest margins among any of the members joining Executive Board. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[763],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","tag-john-mack-freeman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}