{"id":6856,"date":"2020-11-24T14:54:07","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T00:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/?p=6856"},"modified":"2020-11-24T15:26:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T01:26:26","slug":"professor-wertheimer-finishes-decade-on-ala-and-hla-boards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/professor-wertheimer-finishes-decade-on-ala-and-hla-boards\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Wertheimer Finishes Decade on ALA and HLA Boards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Andrew Wertheimer is stepping down as ALA Councilor after a decade of service as an ambassador between the ALA Council and Hawai\u02bbi Library Association. During this time he\u2019s tried to encourage HLA to keep working with students, including the appointment of a student representative on the board. He\u2019s also worked with other leaders to try to make HLA more of a \u201cbig tent\u201d where all information professionals can network, advocate, and learn. At ALA he was active in the Publishing Committee, Diversity Council, and a number of issues. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more on the role of an ALA Councilor, see his article in\u00a0 \u201cThe ALA and You: Membership, Engagement, and Becoming HLA Chapter Councilor.\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1CKl494U0ByknNggjRGum8HFYCaMvvcCI\/view?usp=sharing\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kolekole: The Hawai\u02bbi Library Association Newsletter. Summer 2020: 5.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> He will miss being that bridge, but was happy that our alumna Sharrese Castillo will be taking up that role. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Andrew Wertheimer is stepping down as ALA Councilor after a decade of service as an ambassador between the ALA Council and Hawai\u02bbi Library Association. During this time he\u2019s tried to encourage HLA to keep working with students, including the appointment of a student representative on the board. He\u2019s also worked with other leaders to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-congratulations","category-faculty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6858,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6856\/revisions\/6858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}