Do you have a relative who is also a librarian? A couple of our members do: for example, Gina Kaiser’s mother and my sister are also in the field; and Jeannette de Richemond’s mother used to be a librarian at the old MCP. How about you? Contact Gina with your librarian connections and this little bit of MLA-Phil trivia will appear in an upcoming issue of the Chronicle.
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PubMed Alerts from the U.S. National Library of Medicine will notify subscribers of major system problems with PubMed, its two companion databases, MeSH and Journals, and the NLM Catalog. If these databases have a significant service disruption affecting all or most users for a considerable amount of time, an alert will be issued. Alerts providing update and resolution information about a problem will be sent if warranted.To subscribe, send an e-mail to listserv@list.nih.gov. Leave the subject line blank and enter SUBSCRIBE pubmed-alerts Firstname Lastname in the body of the message.
March 11, 2008: Senators Arlen Specter (R-PA) and Tom Harkin (D-IA) announced they will offer an amendment to the Senate FY09 Budget Resolution (Senate Resolution 70) which would provide significant new funding for NIH. Their amendment would authorize an additional $2.1 billion for the NIH in FY09, bringing the agency’s total funding level up to $32.2 billion. The House and Senate appropriations committees would still have to provide this additional funding, but including it in the budget resolution is a significant first step. A vote on the Specter/Harken amendment could occur anytime within the next few days - PLEASE contact your two U.S. Senators and do the following:
1 - Identify yourself as a constituent and ask to speak with your Senator’s health legislative assistant;
2 - Make the case for addititonal funding - remind your Senators that NIH has been flat-funded in recent years;
3 - Ask your Senators to vote YES on the Specter/Harken amendment to increase funding for the NIH in the FY09 budget resolution.
4 - Give the aide your contact information and ask t be kept informed of your Senator’s actions.
If you do not know who your two U.S. Senators are, please visit: http://www.senate.gov or call the Senate switchboard at 202-224-3121.
Learn to develop Web-based Instruction — Submit Your Application Today!
The Medical Library Association is hosting its 2nd institute to teach the skills need to develop web-based instruction. MLA is currently accepting applications to this Institute. The deadline date for submissions is Friday, March 21st.
The MLA CE Institute 2008: Developing Web-Based Instruction
Who: Based on a competitive process, twenty MLA-approved continuing education (CE) instructors and NN/LM coordinators will be selected for this learning opportunity.
What: At the MLA CE Institute, instructors will participate in intensive training and spend time in course development to transfer their existing face-to-face classes into Web-based mentored courses.
Where: Downtown Chicago
When: May 13-16, 2008
The Mid-Atlantic Chapter’s (MAC) annual meeting “Almost Heaven: Exploring New Vistas,” will be held October 20 - 22, 2008 in Morgantown, WV. Check out their website for the call for papers and posters (the deadline for abstracts is June, 16) and their mentoring program for first-time presenters.
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