WMHIC Meeting June 1

WMHIC's summer meeting will be held Friday, June 1, from 9 AM to 12 Noon at Baystate Health Sciences Library at Baystate Medical Center. (The address of the library is 759 Chestnut Street, Springfield, MA 01199.)

Our discussion topic will be mobile apps and mobile devices: please bring any devices you have access to, and we'll do a session of hands-on sharing and learning. See you there!

Registration is open for MLA Annual Meeting in 2012 to be held in Seattle, Washington on May 18-23.

Check out the Annual Meeting Blog, preliminary program information (the official program will be available in May), and the feed of tweets with the hashtag #mlanet12 for more information on what's new and what's happening. This year's Plenary Session speakers are Steven Johnson, Mark E. Funk, AHIP, FMLA, and T. R. Reid.

Metadata Day May 9

National Networks of Libraries of Medicine/New England announces its Metadata Day, a professional development event for New England librarians, to be held May 9.

The event will be held at Hoagland-Pincus Conference Center in Shrewsbury, MA, and will feature speaker Diane Hillmann, Director of Metadata Initiatives, Information Institute of Syracuse. The day will also feature presentations by local metadata librarians.

Registration information will be forthcoming in April 2012. Stay tuned! 

Register now for March 29 program on healthcare information inequity

From NNLM:

"The National Network of Libraries of Medicine New England Region is sponsoring an all-day program to explore issues related to health equity and health information access. The day will examine the role of health equity, access to care, and wide-spread technology integration. We see the presentation of these themes as setting the stage for discussion of how information providers have engaged with populations affected by health equity and technology divide issues. We will hear from experts in the areas of health equity, the digital divide, and health communication and technology. We’ll hear from information providers and how their outreach projects have encountered these issues."

Speakers will be Janine Anzalota from Boston Public Health Commission, and librarian and blogger Jessamyn West. Learn more and register here.

MAHSLIN Annual Meeting April 20th

The topic for this year's Massachusetts Health Sciences Library Network annual meeting is "You Are Your Library!" This program will discuss marketing, advocacy, and how to choose the best ways to tout your library's assets, in particular their most valuable asset: YOU!

The meeting will take place April 20, 2012, at:

Massachusetts Medical Society
Waltham Woods Corporate Center
860 Winter Street, Waltham, MA
Program & Registration

You can also apply for a 2012 Annual Meeting Scholarship, if you are a current member of MAHSLIN. Application form here.

WNEU hosts Spring Meeting

Western New England University's D'Amour Library welcomed the WMHIC group this past Friday for our quarterly spring meeting. Along with a general business meeting and updates from members' institutions, we were able to tour the brand new pharmacy program facilities with the Pharmacy Librarian at WNEU.

View our full March 2nd meeting minutes here.

Two reminders:

1. WMHIC March meeting is tomorrow, Friday March 2, at Western New England University, in the Mass Mutual Room at the D'Amour Library. (GPS address: 1215 Wilbraham Rd., Springfield 01119 and there will be reserved parking near Herman Hall, otherwise use visitor parking spaces.)  We start at 9 AM with coffee and the business meeting, and we'll be taking a tour of the Pharmacy program and facilities at 10:30 AM. Hope to see you there!  

2. Tomorrow, Friday March 2, is also the last day to sign up for a spot at the joint program on Library Marketing to be held March 23 at Olin College (see previous post for full details). Those who are MAHSLIN/BBLC/NECHI/SEMCO members get priority registration, ahead of those who are not members of any of these groups, but only until tomorrow. Email Alison Clapp of Children's Hospital Boston to sign up.