Welcome to the Philadelphia Regional Chapter of the Medical Library Association, promoting medical librarianship in the area since 1951. Learn more about who we are and what we do in the pages on the left. Locate upcoming events using the calendar on the right. Stay connected with the latest news. And grab an account to add your own voice.

Seeking Award Nominations and Educational Grant Applications
Recommend an admired colleague or your deserving self by March 15. Details>>

The Chronicle
Read the Fall ‘09 issue of the Chronicle (HTML | PDF)

2010 Membership
Member registration/renewal for 2010 is now available.

Continuing Education

Self-paced online course: Understanding Evidence-based Healthcare: A Foundation for Action

Follow-up on November events:

11/18 (live) and on-demand through 12/23 –  Cut the Cord: Connecting to our Mobile Users

• Comments from live session held at Penn’s Van Pelt library:
  —”Thank you for the great webinar!”
  —”Through the discussions and presentations, I gained greater insight into the current challenges facing the medical librarian when evaluating, selecting, implementing, distributing technology and content throughout the institution.”
  —”Many thanks for organizing the session. We both found it extremely informative.”
• On-demand viewing of MLA’s Cut the Cord: Connecting to Our Mobile Users webcast is now available for one month. For $20.00, MLA Philadelphia Regional Chapter will provide members with user name, password, manual, and viewing instructions. For information, contact jderichemond@gmail.com.
• Do you have a mobile website? Please share your views on what’s coming next in our libraries.
• Do you use an on-line reference manager? Please share your views on what’s coming next in our libraries.

11/30 – Free CE at Drexel Health Sciences Library

• Morning session : PubMed Clinics of North America: A Problem-based Approach to PubMed Searching. 22 attendees.
• Comments on Free CE: I attended the morning Pubmed Clinics session. Arpita Bose was the presenter. She was very informative and held my attention throughout the presentation. I was able to gain new insight into the redesigned Pubmed interface and gain a new respect for the indexers at NLM/NCBI. If NNLM decided to offer an indexing course for librarians I would certainly attend. The 3 hours seemed to fly by. I wish there was more time to cover more in depth search topics and complete the My NCBI exercises. Thank you to Arpita Bose, Jeanette deRichmond, Steve Bogel and DUCOM for sponsoring and hosting this event. . Overall I give this course 2 thumbs up and an A+. Michael Ratti
• Is anyone interested in attending the six-hour version of PubMed Clinics? Please write jderichemond@gmail.com.

• Afternoon session: NLM’s Consumer Health Databases Registrations. 15 attendees.

Three by the Sea
Presentation slides and posters are available for some 3 by the Sea sessions. Presenters will find instructions on how to share theirs.

For the Public
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