Mt. Holyoke hosts an Affordable Care Act Information Session

This past Friday, WMHIC members gathered at the Mt. Holyoke College Library to admire their Chihuly statue and learn about the Affordable Care Act. Heather Goodhind, MPH (Navigator Coordinator at Caring Health Center), and Christie Hager, the regional director for region 1 of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, presented. The full text of our minutes available here.

STCC library hosts a PubMed refresher

For our winter quarterly meeting, the library at Springfield Technical Community College hosted WMHIC for a business meeting, followed by a refresher on PubMed and PubMed Health by Stephanie Friree, Outreach Coordinator for NN/LM NER. See our full minutes here and the slides from the presentation here.

AIC hosts fall meeting

This September, members of WMHIC met at American International College's Shea Library to discuss the college's new public health program, their Tutu Lecture Series, and receive a tour of the library. To see our institutional updates and read the full minutes from the meeting, continue here.

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.