She was elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1999 provincial election, defeating incumbent Progressive Conservative MLA Shirley Render in the central Winnipeg riding of St. Vital by 5218 votes to 3699.

The most recent action by MLA occurred in April 1995, when the MLA Board of Directors appointed members to the Task Force to Review the Academy of Health Information Professionals.

The MLA's official website features the MLA Language Map, which presents overviews and detailed data from the United States 2000 Census about the locations and numbers of speakers of thirty languages and seven groups of less commonly spoken languages in the United States.

Founded in 1896, it has been the national social science library of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth and all its collections have been recognised for their outstanding national and international importance and awarded ' Designation ' status by the Museums Libraries and Archives Council ( MLA ).

In 2010 the Museum gained Accredited status under the MLA scheme to improve standards in museums.

Despite her perceived frontrunner status, backbench MLA Harry Bloy was the only sitting member of BC Liberal caucus to endorse her candidacy for leader.

In February 2011 the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council ( MLA ) announced that it had awarded Designated status to Derby Museum and Art Gallery for its nationally significant holdings of paintings and drawings by Joseph Wright.

Advocacy efforts for librarians and the library profession take many forms within MLA: Resources are provided to help hospital librarians communicate with other leaders in their institutions about the true value of librarians and library services, including Advocacy Toolbox: A Practical Guide to Communicating Your Value.

Founded on May 2, 1898, by four librarians and four physicians, the Association of Medical Librarians, as it was known until 1907, was founded “ to encourage the improvement and increase of public medical libraries .” MLA is the second oldest special library association in the United States.

MLA believes that key elements in improved health for all peoples are the ability of each nation to strengthen and build health sciences information capacity through qualified health sciences librarians, implementation of supporting technological infrastructure, and access to quality information.

Gavin Short MLA announced that the Falkland Islanders will vote on a referendum over the archipelago's sovereignty in 2013 in an attempt to end the ongoing dispute with Argentina.

Madhuri Dixit was a Guest of Honour along with her husband Dr. Shriram Nene to promote a Blood Donation Camp organised by the MLA Anil Bhosale on the occassion of the birthday of Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Sunday at Sambhaji garden on JM Road at Pune, Mumbai. Madhuri also tweeted post her short appearance: Enjoyed spending time in Pune.

In 1993, she famously appeared on The Late Show with colleague David White, MLA, in a musical skit performing Joan Jett's " I Love Rock ' n ' Roll ".

For instance, the 15th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style permits the use of both in-text citation systems and / or footnotes or endnotes, including use of " content notes "; it gives information about in-text citation by page number ( like MLA style ) or by year of publication ( like APA style ); it even provides for variations in styles of footnotes and endnotes, depending on whether the paper includes a full bibliography at the end.

Bourassa was first elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec ( MLA ) for the riding of Mercier in 1966, then won the Quebec Liberal Party leadership election on January 17, 1970.

The party was reduced to three seats on the city school board and two on the parks board, newcomer Spencer Herbert ( who was elected an NDP MLA in Vancouver-Burrard at a by-election in 2008 ), and Loretta Woodcock.

There was a series of public blunders and further controversy in February 2008 following scrutiny on the employment of family members by politicians after the Derek Conway scandal when it emerged that Mr Paisley was on his father's payroll as a researcher in the constituency of North Antrim in addition to his roles as an MLA and a Junior Minister.

The decision was deferred by a request of the Finance Minister, and it was decided when they met again on 15 July 2010, and selected the symbol created by D. Udaya Kumar son of N. Dharmalingam, a former DMK MLA.

Greenfield went on to name the seven member cabinet he had intended, including Labour MLA Alex Ross as Minister of Public Works, Parlby as Minister Without Portfolio, and Greenfield himself as Provincial Treasurer.

They believed that the role of an MLA was to represent the views of his or her constituents directly on the floor of the legislature.

In 1910, however, Liberal MLA Alwyn Bramley-Moore ( who was a staunch provincial rights advocate and who many years later would be called " Alberta's first separatist " by the Edmonton Journal ) moved a resolution calling on the Sifton government to " take such steps as may be deemed necessary to acquire the control of all such natural resources as are of purely local concern ".

Citation styles in which book titles are italicized differ on how to deal with a book title within a book title ; for example, MLA style specifies a switch back to roman type, whereas The Chicago Manual of Style ( 8. 184 ) specifies the use of quotation marks ( A Key to Whitehead ’ s " Process and Reality ").

Vancouver Sun legislative columnist Vaughn Palmer commented at the time on the irony of Kelowna, centre of the Bennett dynasty from 1952 to 1986, now being represented by two fringe party MLAs: Serwa and Progressive Democratic Alliance MLA Judi Tyabji.

There is a statue to commemorate Ney — dressed in his pirate costume — and the bathtub races at Swy-a-Lana Lagoon, which is on the Nanaimo waterfront ; Ney was also an MLA for the Social Credit party while he was also mayor.

On 14 September 2010, the NF publicity officer, Tom Linden, shared a debate with the Social Democratic and Labour Party MLA, John Dallat, on BBC Radio Foyle about the support the NF had in Coleraine.

The turnabout in his life was rapid and profound: Lead Belly was released from prison on August 1, 1934 ; his schedule for the last week of December that year included performances for the MLA gathering in Philadelphia, for an afternoon tea in Bryn Mawr, and for an informal gathering of professors from Columbia and NYU.

The president for 2011 is Russell A. Berman, Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution ; the first vice president is Michael Bérubé, Paterno Family Professor in Literature and Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Pennsylvania State University, who assumes the MLA presidency in 2012 ; and the second vice president is Marianne Hirsch, William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and Professor in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, who will advance to first vice president in 2012 and to the presidency in 2013.

Leader McCartney personally stood in six constituencies and former Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP ) MLA George Ennis also stood on the UKUP ticket.

Scott insisted on Regina, though, and his caucus eventually fell in line – when the Liberal MLA from Saskatoon, W. C. Sutherland, introduced a resolution to move the capital to Saskatoon on May 23, 1906, the motion was defeated by a vote of 21 – 02 in the legislature.

On 18 December 2003 Donaldson, Norah Beare MLA and Arlene Foster announced their resignation from the UUP and on 5 January 2004 they announced that they had joined the Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP ).

Penal Codes of some member countries of the Organization of American States may be found in the public portion of the OAS website, through links from http :// www. oas. org / juridico / MLA / en / index. html.

Dan Miller, the longest-serving member of the legislature stepped-in as interim premier and party leader during an acrimonious leadership race between Dosanjh, maverick West Kootenay MLA Corky Evans and Wilson, who had been persuaded to fold his stalled PDA in 1998 and join Clark's cabinet.

Even before 1934, several candidates ran and were elected under the Liberal-Progressive banner ( Frederick Sandy of Victoria South was first elected as a UFO MLA in 1919, was defeated in 1923 and returned to serve as a Liberal-Progressive from 1926-1929 ; Merton Elvin Scott of Oxford South served as a Liberal-Progressive MLA from 1926 to 1929 and UFO MLA David Munroe Ross of Oxford North was re-elected as a Liberal-Progressive in 1926 and 1929 ), however it was only in the 1934 election that a formal alliance between the Progressives and Liberals began, returning four Liberal-Progressive MLAs ( Nixon, Douglas Campbell of Kent East, Roland Patterson of Grey North and James Francis Kelly of Muskoka ).

Rodmond P. Roblin was the dominant Conservative MLA between 1890 and 1892, but he does not seem to have been recognized as an official leader.

He was the province's only Social Credit MLA between 1959 and 1973, and was the party's leader for most if not all of the period from 1959 to 1977.

Sveinson crossed the floor in 1983 and was, for a time, the only Member of the Legislative Assembly ( MLA ) for the Saskatchewan Liberal Party, but he was ousted from the party in 1985 as a result of apparent disagreements between Sveinson and Ralph Goodale ( then leader of the Saskatchewan Liberal party ) over legislative questioning tactics.

Although Rossmere's first MLA was New Democratic Party premier Edward Schreyer, it was historically a swing seat between the NDP and the Progressive Conservatives.

* MLA Treaty ( full text ) drafted between the U. S. and Japan in 2003

The MLA Exchange was one of the founders ’ earliest and most important projects, helping build medical libraries in the United States and many other countries by exchanging duplicate publications.

The MLA Governmental Relations Committee is charged with developing consistency in the Association's position on information policy issues, and on governmental actions affecting medical libraries.

The award provides for attendance at the MLA annual meeting and observation and supervised work in one or more medical libraries in the United States or Canada.