Greetings! My name is Denise Leyton and I am this year's treasurer. As Rachel Minkin, our past treasurer, reported at the Annual Conference Members Meeting, our budget this year will be steady with last year's budget. In the coming months, I plan to have discussions with the Board about our process of distributing funds to Interest Groups and Committees and how we can continue to act in our members' best interests. If you have questions for me, you are welcome to email me at dmleyton@umich.edu. Looking forward to a great year!

Mercy High School
Martha Kreucher

Ferris State University
Jason Bentley

Kettering University Library
Amy Klebba

University of Michigan - Flint
Jennifer Dean

Library of Michigan
Heather Wood-Gramza

West Shore Community College
Patricia Skinner
Mia Glionna
Tiler Jewell

Oakland Community College
Kyle Ceci

Hope College
Jennifer Bruxvoort
Rachel Burns

Eastern Michigan University
Elizabeth Pepper

Bay de Noc Community College
Mariel Carter

Midwest Collaborative for Library Services
Mary Ruthko

Northern Michigan University
Emera Bridger Wilson

Wayne State University
Sarah Henry Boggs

IASSIST

The MI OER Network Steering Committee invites you to register for the 2022 MI OER Summit, which will be held virtually on September 29-30, 2022. This year's theme is "Looking Back, Looking Froward," focusing on how work in open education has been changed and transformed during the past two years and your plans for a re-imagined future.

We have an excellent line-up of presenters, including keynote speakers Dr. Maha Bali, Associate Professor of Practice at the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo, and Nicole Allen, Director of Open Education for SPARC. 

Registration is free and open to anyone. To register and learn more about the summit, visit the MI OER Virtual Summit.

Special thanks to the Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC) for their support in creating the event registration page and providing our virtual conference platform. Funding for the MI OER Summit is provided in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Library of Michigan. 

• An OER IG hosted watch party followed by a panel discussion for the documentary "Paywall: The Business of Scholarship" the night before.
• Mays Imad's keynote "Bearing Witness as an Act of Love, Resistance, Hope, and Healing," which offered insight into student and patron engagement in a post-COVID world.
• Seventeen engaging presentations over five breakout sessions focused on topics including data storytelling, course adopted textbooks, organizational care, and many more.
• And rounding out the conference, two IDEA Committee sponsored workshops on Anti-Racist practice from Thomas Dickens, the assistant dean for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion and chief diversity officer at The Ohio State University. 

The 2022 issue of Hypothesis: Research Journal for Health Information Professionals has been published and includes:

● A Voices of Experience article on the benefits and actions needed to build a culture of research in academic libraries, by Jenessa McElfresh, K. Megan Sheffield, and Maggie Albro.
● The Introduction of Rebecca Carlson as the new Chair Elect of MLA’s Research Caucus.
● A Failure article on a pilot project to use board games to study student attitudes toward interprofessional education.
● The return of the Research Mentor column with an intro by originator Jon Eldridge.

In addition, we are recruiting for volunteers to help with editing, marketing, etc. We’d also love to hear your ideas for future articles or issues. Follow us on Twitter for the latest updates.

With appreciation, Editorial Team