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.

Boston Biomedical Library Consortium is happy to welcome all Massachusetts Health Science librarians to their first joint educational meeting, with a topic in support of the upcoming MAHSLIN Annual Meeting theme of marketing. (MAHSLIN Annual Meeting will be Friday, April 20th, 2012.)

WHEN:

Friday, March 23, 2012 (9:00 – 2:00)

WHERE:

Olin College, Needham, Crescent Room in the Campus Center

Directions to the college: http://www.olin.edu/campus/directions.aspx )

Campus Map: http://www.olin.edu/campus/images/CampusMap071217_800px.png

LIBRARY MARKETING: THE NUTS AND BOLTS

9:00 – 9:30      Coffee

9:30 – 10:30    The Marketing Biz: Knowing Your Customers.

10:30 – 12:15  Communicate with Clarity and Impact.

12:15 – 12:30  The 20-Minute “Message”.

12:30 – 2:00    BBLC/NECHI/SEMCO Business Meetings

Thanks to Olin College for providing the meeting space and to MAHSLIN for financial support of a speaker.

TO REGISTER:

Please email the following information to Alison Clapp of Children's Hospital Boston:

Your Name:

Your Institution:

Your Email:

Your Consortium (only if you are a BBLC/NECHI/SEMCO member)

Meeting scheduled for March 2, 2012 at WNEU

Friday, March 2, 2012
Western New England University 

9:00-10:30am –Coffee and business meeting
o Updates from our institutions/conferences/related organizations
o Reports from officers
o New officers for June—let the arm-twisting begin!
o Decide next meeting:  date, location, topic

10:30am-12noon
WNE’s Pharmacy program/facilities

Please notify Margot Malachowski, President, of any additional agenda items or nominations for VP for the June 2012-June 2013 term. 

From Margot: "For those of you who are considering getting more involved, this is a very low-key commitment.  We meet quarterly.  Half of the meeting is devoted to checking in and discussing any relevant conferences, etc. The other half of the meeting is topic-related.  Currently, we are touring our members’ libraries.  Officers hold it all together, more or less.  Join us!"