{"id":277,"date":"2012-12-04T12:05:03","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T20:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncnmlg.mlanet.org\/connections\/?p=277"},"modified":"2013-01-10T18:12:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T02:12:49","slug":"spotlight-julia-kochi-mla-nominating-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnmlg.mlanet.org\/connections\/?p=277","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight: Julia Kochi & MLA Nominating Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kochi-Julia\"<\/a>Julia Kochi, Director of Collections and User Services at the UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management sat down with our bloggers (Bijan Esfahani and Chezire Aclimandos) to discuss her nomination for the MLA Nominating Committee.\u00a0 Here is Julia from the Nov. 30th conversation.<\/p>\n

Can you please tell us a little bit about the position for which you are running?<\/em>
\nI am running for the MLA nominating committee, which is the group that comes up with the names for the president and the board elections for next year.<\/p>\n

Had you run for this post in the past?
\n<\/em>Yes, I have.\u00a0 I served on the nominating committee a number of years ago.\u00a0 At the time I had run and won the seat, I had run as part of NCNMLG (the nominee to the MLA nominating committee).
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\nAre there some particular reasons that have drawn you back to this position?
\n<\/em>It\u2019s a great opportunity for identifying people who are interested in helping MLA move forward and bring new people into leadership positions.\u00a0 It\u2019s a group of people that are nominated by other groups.\u00a0 It\u2019s also a great opportunity to interact with other colleagues with whom I don\u2019t normally have an opportunity to interact.<\/p>\n

Do you think that MLA should be defending small libraries that are closing their doors?\u00a0 Should the MLA try to support them in some way?
\n<\/em>MLA does provide support to these libraries.\u00a0 I served on the board a couple of years ago, and the board will write letters in support of small libraries (hospital libraries or otherwise).\u00a0 If a hospital library faces a position or their funding is in jeopardy, they may ask MLA to write on their behalf.\u00a0 MLA does support small hospital libraries this way.<\/p>\n

What would you like to achieve in your role in the nominating committee?
\n<\/em>For the nominating committee, it\u2019s a very short term appointment.\u00a0 We meet once and we nominate the candidate.\u00a0 What I would like to accomplish is to identify quality, qualified, and interested candidates who are broad representations of the types of libraries supported by MLA.\u00a0 We don\u2019t have a long-term charge.<\/p>\n

Are there any changes in the approach and mechanism that the nominating committee will undertake next year?\u00a0 <\/em>
\nYes, the committee is trying to be more inclusive.\u00a0 It used to be more based on the network (i.e. who you knew, and who knew you).\u00a0 In the past couple of years, the committee has put out a call to the community and solicited input and feedback on identifying individuals that would be a good match for\u00a0 the positions.\u00a0 And also to self-nominate themselves.\u00a0 There is a potential\u00a0 concern that if we nominate based on those we know, then the same names will enter the ballot again and again.\u00a0 In the past several years we have seen more people participating in the organization.\u00a0 Looking for additional opportunities to obtain names for the ballot is very important.\u00a0 Perhaps we can use some of the social networking tools that we have available.\u00a0 If I am elected, I will further explore this possibility.<\/p>\n

Is there a particular way you would like NCMLG members to connect with you?
\n<\/em>If I am elected, I will reach out to the group via a message and solicit their participation as well as recommendations for names to contact.<\/p>\n

Would you be interested in writing for the NCNMLG blog?
\nYes, if I am elected I would write an article for the blog.<\/p>\n

Looking back at the last few years of the work of the nominating committee, have you felt that the voice of the Pacific Southwest Region has been well represented?
\n<\/em>I think it\u2019s difficult because we are a small group.\u00a0 All of the groups are fairly small.\u00a0 In the past few years, our nominee to the nominating committee has not been elected.\u00a0 The nomination process is complex.\u00a0 Nominees can come through the chapter council. \u00a0Or going through the sections and the section council puts forth names.\u00a0 And the board also puts forth names of nominees.\u00a0 All of these channels provide the slate of the candidates.\u00a0 We are a very small chapter, and a lot of the chapter members are not necessarily members of MLA so it\u2019s difficult to get individuals from our region to get elected through chapter council because they don\u2019t have the votes.\u00a0 And also their names may not be recognized as much as the other regions.\u00a0 I would like to see better west coast representation (both the Pacific Northwest and the Southwest).<\/p>\n

Are there any changes in the voting process for next year?
\n<\/em>Not that I am aware.<\/p>\n

Any other issues you would like to address with our readers?
\n<\/em>If I am elected, I very much encourage people to contact me with names and suggestions for nominees.\u00a0 And I will do my best to support our chapter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Julia Kochi, Director of Collections and User Services at the UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management sat down with our bloggers (Bijan Esfahani and Chezire Aclimandos) to discuss her nomination for the MLA Nominating Committee.\u00a0 Here is Julia from … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnmlg.mlanet.org\/connections\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnmlg.mlanet.org\/connections\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnmlg.mlanet.org\/connections\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnmlg.mlanet.org\/connections\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnmlg.mlanet.org\/connections\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ncnmlg.mlanet.org\/connections\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"https:\/\/ncnmlg.mlanet.org\/connections\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnmlg.mlanet.org\/connections\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnmlg.mlanet.org\/connections\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnmlg.mlanet.org\/connections\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}