originally posted 1-30-01 to hlib-nw
The MLA Continuing Education (CE) Committee would like you to submit your ideas for exciting courses to be offered at MLA 2002 in Dallas, TX. Please send any course topics you would like to see, and if you know of any instructors or colleagues that are sufficiently proficient in an area and could teach courses, please include their names and contact information, if known. We would also like to know of any classes from past meetings that you would like to see offered again.
If you are an instructor with a course or an idea for a course that you would like to offer to your MLA colleagues, we would like to hear from you as well. For more information on how to teach your course at a MLA annual meeting, see MLANET or contact Kathleen Gaydoes Combs via email.
Please send your course ideas to Linda Azen Martin, 2002 National
Program Committee CE Liaison, Health Care Informatics Consultant,
330 Regatta Way, Seal Beach, CA 90740, 562-598-1813 (phone), 714-564-4200
(fax), Martin_Linda@rsccd.org
(please do NOT use the email address published in the MLA 2000/2001
Directory, it is no longer in service).
MLA is now accepting proposals for symposia at the 2002 Annual Meeting in Dallas, TX. MLA considers a symposium to be "a learning opportunity organized for the purpose of providing a forum for discussion of a well-defined topic." A symposium typically consists of a series of presentations by experts, followed by an exchange of opinions among symposium participants.
The MLA Continuing Education Committee will be meeting January 19-21, 2001, to begin discussing the 2002 annual meeting continuing education roster. If your section is interested in hosting a symposium, please send your ideas to the professional development department at MLA headquarters by January 2, 2001.
Official proposals for MLA 2002 symposia are due to the professional development department at MLA headquarters by May 1, 2002. Proposals are evaluated by the Continuing Education Committee according to the importance and uniqueness of the subject and content; the timeliness, appeal and marketability of the topic; and the availability and adequacy of funding.
Proposals should include:
NLM's new Gateway was made available on August 16. The NLM Gateway is a web-based system that lets users use one interface to search across multiple NLM resources. The target audience is the Internet user who comes to NLM not knowing exactly what is available or how to search for it. In the first stage of development, resources searched will include PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, Locatorplus, AIDS Conference abstracts, HSRProj and MEDLINEplus. In future stages, DIRLINE, TOXNET and ClinicalTrials.gov will be added.
The URL for this new product is http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov. Please watch for the article "NLM Gateway: Your entrance to the Knowledge Resources of the National Library of Medicine" to be published soon in the NLM Technical Bulletin.
From: National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest
Region
University of Washington nnlm@u.washington.edu
NN/LM PNR 800-338-7657
Box 357155
Seattle, Washington 98195-7155
206/543-8262 *** FAX: 206/543-2469
originally posted to hlib-nw 10-17-00
Nancy Griffin and Laurel Egan were recognized
by NLM during National Medical Librarians Month, http://www.nlm.nih.gov/lo/profiles00/medlibnsmonth00.html
originally submitted 10-30-00 to hlib-nw
by Linda
Milgrom
The 2001 election ballot counting, chaired by MLA member Pat Pinkowski, took place at MLA headquarters in Chicago on January 9, 2001. The successful candidates are:
MLA thanks all candidates who ran for office and the volunteer group who counted ballots.