Happy New Year! I hope everyone enjoyed healthy and happy holidays and had great numbers in your bookstores.

I am honored to serve as your SIBA board president for 2023 and am delighted to introduce to you our two new SIBA board members -- Jamie Anderson and Jamie Fiocco who you can read about below. (No, we didn’t plan to have three Jamies on the board at once. Yes, it is funny.) John Cavalier has completed his board service as of December 31 and last fall, the membership voted to fill that seat with Jamie Anderson. Though we were sad to see Candice Huber leave the board, we are thrilled that they are still serving SIBA in the new role of Membership Coordinator. I am grateful to Jamie Fiocco for stepping in for a one-year term to help us complete Candice’s term and the membership will vote later this year to fill that seat starting in 2024.

There are several exciting things coming to SIBA in 2023! Make sure you’re staying in touch by reading the newsletters and following SIBA on social. I hope you will take advantage of the educational offerings provided throughout the year and please do not hesitate to get in touch with the SIBA staff or board with questions, ideas, problems, comments -- anything! You can reach me at jamie@bookmarksnc.org . I hope to see you in Seattle for Winter Institute.

Jamie Rogers Southern,
Bookmarks Executive Director and SIBA Board President