{"id":21294,"date":"2024-06-13T19:34:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T19:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/?p=21294"},"modified":"2024-06-13T19:34:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T19:34:10","slug":"directors-insights-getting-to-know-region-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/directors-insights-getting-to-know-region-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Director&#8217;s Insights: Getting to Know Region 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been almost ten weeks since I started as <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/hello-from-nnlm-region-5-staff-kathryn-vela\/\">Executive Director for Region 5<\/a>, and at the risk of sounding cliche, the time has been flying by! I have immersed myself in learning about the NNLM, Region 5, and the University of Washington as I work with the Region 5 team to chart a course through the fourth year of our five-year cooperative agreement.<\/p>\n<p>One of my goals for my first year in this position is to get to know <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nnlm.gov\/about\/regions\/region5\">Region 5<\/a> better. We are a vast region covering over 1 million miles and home to over 57 million people. We cover five time zones! Region 5 currently has 831 total members, including\u00a0public libraries, academic libraries, community organizations, health departments, and more; any organization that provides health information or services can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nnlm.gov\/membership\/join\">join as an NNLM member for free<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Region 5 and its members, we are hosting a <strong>virtual meet-and-greet session with me on Wednesday, July 17th, at 3:00 PM PST<\/strong>. This event is an opportunity to get to know me better, share your ideas and feedback about Region 5 programming, and learn more about the initiatives for the upcoming year.<\/p>\n<p>Registration for this event is free and open! Register to attend at\u00a0<span class=\"x_ui-provider\"><a title=\"https:\/\/www.nnlm.gov\/meet-and-greet\" href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/www.nnlm.gov\/meet-and-greet__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!nuEc3eN8T6_1ePIWUl5qz9nZYwqMqoKsNc6smqUl4wUqbvVJ30JoMgIfucWt2vF9BLyzXBoSlQqz6YJL$\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">https:\/\/www.nnlm.gov\/meet-and-greet<\/a>. I hope to see you there!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Kathryn<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been almost ten weeks since I started as Executive Director for Region 5, and at the risk of sounding cliche, the time has been flying by! I have immersed myself in learning about the NNLM, Region 5, and the University of Washington as I work with the Region 5 team to chart a&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/directors-insights-getting-to-know-region-5\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3001,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,315,314],"tags":[422,325,93],"class_list":["post-21294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-new-from-nnlm-region-5","category-news-from-nnlm-region-5","tag-event","tag-nnlm-region-5","tag-outreach"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21294"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21335,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21294\/revisions\/21335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}