Fall Meeting next week!

Our fall meeting will take place next Friday. Join us!

 Day: Fri, Sept 13
Time: 9:00am-12:00noon
Place: American International College, Shea Library
Directions: http://www.aic.edu/visitors/directions 
Parking: street parking on State Street, Wilbraham Road or Concord Terrace

Agenda
9:00-10:30: checking in, institution updates
10:30-12noon: topic discussion, library tour

Topic: We will have the director for the Public Health program at AIC come speak. If time allows, we may hear about the Desmond Tutu Public Health Lecture Series and take a tour of the library.

Berkshire Medical Center hosts summer meeting

The most recent WMHIC meeting took place this summer at Berkshire Medical Center. After the business meeting, Diana Davis from the Massachusetts Library System discussed the Massachusetts broadband initiative. Full meeting minutes here.

UMass Amherst hosts Spring Meeting

The W. E. B. Du Bois Library at UMass Amherst was the location of WHMIC's 2013 Spring meeting. We met to discuss our institutions and to hear a very interesting presentation from Full of Grace Farm, home to an equine-assisted psychotherapy program. For the full minutes, visit here.

GCC hosts winter meeting

Our most recent quarterly meeting happened at Greenfield Community College's Nahman-Watson Library this past Friday, where we heard from Tim Moriarty, Manager of Interpreter and Translation Services at Baystate Health. Full meeting minutes from December 7th available here.

Bay Path hosts WMHIC fall meeting

Our most recent quarterly meeting happened at Bay Path College this past Friday, where we heard about their new and developing Physician's Assistant program. Full meeting minutes from September 21st available here.

WMHIC Meeting September 21

WMHIC's fall meeting will be held Friday, September 21, from 9:30 AM to 12 Noon at Bay Path College, Hatch Library. (The address of the library is 539 Longmeadow St., Longmeadow, MA.)

At this meeting, we'll hear from Jennifer Hixon, the director of Bay Path's new Physicians Assistant program. The agenda: 

9:30 - 10:00 Arrival and coffee

10:00 - 11:00 Business meeting and reports from member libraries

11:00 - 12:00 (approx.) Speaker's presentation

Hope to see you there! 

Insider's Tour of the Library of the Commonwealth

Wow.  Here's a great opportunity to go behind the scenes at the Boston Public Library.  The Massachusetts Library System arranges Insiders Tours for librarians and library staff.  I attended the July 18th event.  First up: Social Sciences.  This department manages family/local history, law, grant resources and government documents.  Next: the Leventhal Map Center.  The current exhibit is America Votes: Mapping the Political Landscape.  Third stop: Rare Books & Special Collections.  In Boston vernacular, wicked awesome.  The library of John Adams and other treasures.  An hour break for lunch.  Many of us took advantage of the on-site cafe and the gorgeous courtyard. 

After lunch, a tour of Microtext and Newspapers (tip--friend them on Facebook, you will not be disappointed!!!), Reference & Readers Advisory and the Interlibrary Loan.  Yes, this is a librarian tour.  Lots of librarian-speak.  We finished with the digitization lab of Digital Commonwealth.  Learn how your library can participate in this exciting project.

The best part of the Insider's Tour is that our tour guides are so enthusiastic about their work.  Want to get pumped up about being a librarian?  Keep an eye out for the next opportunity on the MLS Calendar of Events.