Monthly Archive for April, 2009

Follow up on the Annual Meeting from our presenter, Josh Goldstein

Philadelphia Inquirer health and science reporter Josh Goldstein sends along his thanks for our invitation to speak at our Annual Meeting. He got lots of good feedback and ideas from the folks he met at the reception. He would like to get contact information from those who are willing to share it (phone and email) so that he could share that information with his colleagues at the paper as a potential resources on various health stories.
If interested, contact Josh:
(215) 854-4774 office
(215) 694-6033 cell

Congratulations to the 2009 award winners!

Anne Seymour receives the Chapter Achievement Award

Anne Seymour receives the Chapter Achievement Award

At last week’s annual meeting the Chapter awarded its 2009 honorees, who join in a proud tradition.

Robert Preston Lee Memorial Award
Carlos Rodriguez

Beatrice Davis Education Award
Sharon K. Fischer

Chapter Achievement Award
Anne Seymour

Certificate of Appreciation
Stephanie Ferreti
Barbara Henry
Gina Kaiser
Jackie Knuckle
Laura Koepfler
Rachel Resnick
Betty Warner

Last call for annual meeting registrations




Registration for the MLA-Phil Annual Meeting closes Saturday, April 11.

The annual meeting will be held Wednesday, April 15, 5pm – 8:30pm at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. The featured speaker will be Josh Goldstein, health and sciences reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer. The reception following our Annual Meeting and Speaker will feature food stations, wine, beer, and sodas.
Several folks have inquired about the menu which follows:

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NAHSL Blog

Our MLA chapter colleagues at the North Atlantic Health Sciences Libraries launched the NAHSL Blog. Looks great!

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New Resource Guide to Online Continuing Education

Please see the new listing of links to external online continuing education resources, which includes online NLM resources, Evidence-based Medicine courses, MLA resources, hedges (based on research), and useful hyperlinks. This list has been compiled by Jeanette de Richemond; please send your additions and suggestions to jderichemond@gmail.com.