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Friends of WMRLS meeting October 8

Friends of WMRLS Annual Meeting, is having a meeting October 8, 2010, at the Whately facility of the Massachusetts Library System.

From the news release:

Now that WMRLS is no more, we must redefine our mission and our focus as an organization. We have many options. We need your input, imagination and inspiration.

Join us at the Friends of WMRLS Annual Meeting, October 8, 2010, in Whately at the former WMRLS Headquarters (coffee 9:30, meeting 10 – 12).

Help us determine our organization’s future direction.We have many choices:

• Continue to build and maintain a cohesive, motivated, western Mass library community.
• Continue to inform legislators of the needs of the western Mass library community.
• Continue to advocate with the new Massachusetts Library System for the needs of western Mass libraries.
• Provide leadership within the local library community.
• Maintain a relationship with the wider library community in the Commonwealth.
• All of the above
• None of the above; disband the organization.
• Other ideas that you bring to the discussion.

We hope to see you on October 8!

See directions to the Whately facility.

Agenda for Friday September 24, 2010

Western Massachusetts Health Information Consortium

September 24, 2010 9:00am-12:00pm

Massachusetts Library System, Whately Facility

4 Sandy Lane, Whately, MA 01093

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM Coffee and catching up

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Business meeting

News and updates:

• · Officer reports (treasurer report attached)
• · Upcoming meetings and conferences

Other business:

• · Mailing list for WMHIC
• · Future of WMHIC

10:30 AM - 10:45 AM Coffee break

10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Lauri Fennell, Outreach and Education Coordinator from NN/LM NER

We're looking forward to a beautiful day, a great location, and an engaging meeting this Friday. Please join us!

Ethics Day at UMass Amherst October 8, 2010

The UMass Amherst Libraries will host "Ethics Day: Engaging Librarians in the Responsible Conduct of Research," professional development program for New England area librarians, on Friday, October 8, 2010, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., on Floor 26, Du Bois Library, UMass Amherst. For more information and to register for the free program by October 1, visit http://guides.library.umass.edu/ethicsday. Lunch and other refreshments will be provided.

Registration is filling up quickly, so please hurry if you'd like to sign up for those last few spots!

NAHSL fall meeting October 24-26 2010

The North Atlantic Health Sciences Libraries 2010 conference will be held in Newport, Rhode Island, October 24-26, 2010. This year's theme is:

Libraries in Balance:
Preserving our Roots, Growing our Future

"Storing, preserving and accessing knowledge and information by blending the best of library traditions with the technology tools of the future."

Join your fellow health information librarians for speakers, continuing education classes, poster sessions, and networking. Registration materials are only available online this year, and registration costs are lower if you register by October 1, 2010.

ACRL New England October Conference Registration Open!

The fourteenth annual October Conference for New England academic librarians, sponsored by the Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries, will take place Friday, October 15, 2010, in Alumni Hall, Hopkins Center, at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.

This year's theme is:

"Tools to Support Teaching and Outreach: A Mix of the New and the Tried-and-True"

The conference begins at 8 AM with continental breakfast and registration, and this year's speakers include Jessamyn West of librarian.net and Andy Burkhardt of Information Tyrannosaur. Topics include: use of social tools and Web 2.0 tools in libraries; use of clickers, polling and new media tools in library instruction; and delivering library instruction through online and distance learning tools.

See the full program for the 2010 October Conference, with links to registration information. Be sure to register by October 1st!

Meeting Scheduled for Sept 24

The Western Massachusetts Health Information Consortium (WMHIC) is going through a metamorphosis in 2010/2011. In the past several years, many of our members retired or lost their jobs. Those that remain, and those who are new, have big aspirations.

We hope to engage you in our quarterly meetings. These meetings are an opportunity to network with librarians working in Berkshire, Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin counties—the counties struggling with some of the most daunting health disparities in the Commonwealth. We are academic librarians and hospital librarians working together to improve biomedical education and clinical care for our neighbors.

And, we need an opportunity to share our struggles and our triumphs.

We invite you to join us in our quarterly meetings (September, December, March, and June). Join our face2face community of health sciences librarians. Each meeting is a time to share what we are doing at our institutions and an opportunity to learn about issues relevant to our field. We are here to support your work as you make a positive impact on those who work, study and reside in Western Massachusetts.

Our next meeting is:

Friday, September 24, 2010
Western Mass Regional Library facility
4 Sandy Lane
Whately, MA
9:00am-12:00pm

Special Guest: Lauri Fennell, Outreach and Education Coordinator from NN/LM NER

We always welcome your ideas on how to improve WMHIC. Please forward to other health sciences librarians!

March 26 WMHIC Meeting

Spring is (sort of) here! us! We will be meeting at the Holyoke Medical Center Auxiliary Conference Center, located at 575 Beech St., Holyoke, MA 01040.

Directions to the Auxiliary Conference Center are located here: http://www.holyokehealth.com/Patient.aspx?id=440

Arrival/refreshments will begin at 9:00. A more complete agenda will follow sometime next week. If you have something you'd like to see on the agenda, please let me know.

I hope to see you all next Friday,

--Rob


Robert DiFazio, MLS
Librarian
Austen Riggs Center
25 Main St., P.O. Box 962
Stockbridge, MA 01262-0962
(413) 931-5259
robert.difazio@austenriggs.net