Philadelphia Regional Chapter / Medical Library Association
The MLA-Phil chapter members thank our most recent sponsors.
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Congratulations to chapter members Karen Albert and Anne Seymour, who were elected to the MLA national Nominating Committee. Their term will begin at the conclusion of the 2009 Hawaii conference.
Ruth Holst will be President-elect.
Greetings,
We of the Virtual Learning Commons for Nurses (Eastern University) are planning an in-world meeting to discuss the use of immersive technologies (Second Life) for nursing education and library services. The meeting will be held sometime in January. However, we do not have a specific date set.
There are several universities in the USA and UK already implementing nursing programs in SL. We hope some of you will join us in Second Life and contribute your insights to our discussion of the technologies emerging for nursing distance education and reference.
When we have a specific date, I will post here.
Until then come visit us in Second Life (Teching 10 Island) or join us on the wiki (http://vlcn.wetpaint.com/).
Take care,
Mark
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The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Advisory Committee to the Director convened for its 97th meeting, the final meeting of 2008. Following Dr. Elias Zerhouni’s resignation as NIH Director at the end of October, Dr. Raynard Kington, the Deputy NIH Director, assumed the role of Acting Director until a new Director is named. In this capacity, Dr. Kington called the meeting to order; however, he stopped short of presenting the comprehensive Director’s Report.
The meeting was in large part a recap of initiatives that the NIH prioritized this past year. Of particular interest were the presentations on NIH’s ongoing effort to enhance the peer review system and NIH’s development of recommendations to avoid conflicts of interest by its affiliated researchers. Dr. Lawrence Tabak’s presentation is entitled Enhancing Peer Review: Implementation of Recommended Actions and Dr. Sally Rockey’s presentation is Assuring Objectivity in Research: NIH and Financial Conflict of Interest.
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