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From the Editor

By Rachel R. Resnick. Published on July 10, 2009 in the Chronicle. 0 Comments Tags: , , .
Rachel Resnick

Rachel Resnick

“It was the best of times [several mla-phil members were promoted, published, graduated, and honored; others contributed their first articles to the Chronicle],
It was the worst of times [several members are still looking for work],
It was the age of wisdom [record numbers of the unemployed used their public libraries to discover and apply for jobs],
It was the age of foolishness [legislation was introduced in Pennsylvania to severely cut public library services], …
It was the season of Light [record numbers of articles were submitted to PubMedCentral], It was the season of Darkness [Elsevier published a fake journal for Merck], ….”*

In this issue of the Chronicle, we take a look back our Chapter’s Annual Business Meeting and Reception and at MLA’s Annual Conference.  Read more» » »

Details of the 58th Annual Business Meeting and Reception

By Rachel R. Resnick. Published on July 10, 2009 in Events and the Chronicle. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

by Rachel Resnick

More than fifty attendees enjoyed reconnecting with friends, networking, listening and learning from an entertaining speaker, and sampling wonderful cuisine at the 2009 Annual Business Meeting and Reception of the Medical annmtg2009-1Library Association, Philadelphia Regional Chapter.  The meeting was held on April 15 at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in the foyer and meeting room next to the Mütter Museum.  The meeting was attended by members, non-members, students, and vendor representatives.  Photos of the event, taken by Archives Committee Chair Joan McKenzie, are available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/8055980@N04/tags/annualmeeting2009/.

Etheldra Templeton, our outgoing (in both senses of the word) Chair, welcomed the attendees.  First, the minutes of the 2008 Annual Meeting were approved.  A copy is posted at
http://www.mlaphil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/20081.pdf.  Read more» » »

Josh Goldstein, Philadelphia Inquirer Reporter

By Rachel R. Resnick. Published on July 10, 2009 in General News and the Chronicle. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

by Rachel Resnick

The speaker at our 58th Annual Business Meeting and Reception was JoshGoldstein.  Mr. Goldstein is a health and science reporter at

Josh Goldstein

Josh Goldstein

The Philadelphia Inquirer, covering health care quality, clinical care, and hospitals. He has developed computer databases that have enabled him to do sophisticated analyses of health care trends and quality of delivery.  He previously covered the business of health as a member of The Inquirer’s business department, writing extensively about Pennsylvania’s malpractice insurance crisis. He was part of an award-winning team that reported on the decline and bankruptcy of the Allegheny Health System, at the time the largest nonprofit health care bankruptcy in the country.  The topic of his presentation was how broader access and use of the internet has impacted and changed the use of health information. Read more» » »

A Report from the MLA 2009 NIH Public Access Open Forum

By Rachel R. Resnick. Published on July 10, 2009 in MLA '09 and the Chronicle. 1 Comment Tags: , , , .

The Ad Hoc Committee for Advocating Scholarly Communication sponsored an Open Forum to discuss the issues that have surfaced in the past year regarding the NIH Public Access Policy.  Since April 7, 2008 all investigators funded by the NIH have been required to submit their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts to PubMed Central (PMC) and these submissions must be publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication. In addition, anyone submitting an application, proposal, or progress report to the NIH must include the PMC or NIH Manuscript Submission reference number when citing applicable articles that arise from their NIH funded research. (NOT-OD-08-033 <http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-08-033.html>)  Principal investigators and institutions are responsible for full compliance of this law.  Libraries and research offices across the country have been establishing new procedures to enable the research community to meet the terms of both the government requirement for public access as well copyright compliance with the journal publishers. Read more» » »

Reflections on MLA ’09

By Gary. Published on July 10, 2009 in MLA '09 and the Chronicle. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

MLA held its annual conference in Hawaii this May, thirty years since its last

Click here to view an audiovisual slideshow summation of MLA ’09 created and narrated by Gary Childs

Click on the image above to view an audiovisual slideshow summation of MLA ’09 created and narrated by Gary Childs

visit.  Coordinated by Michelle Kraft, conference planners used social media to make it easier to follow the proceedings, both for those onsite and for those unable to attend. Eric Schnell put together a replay of the Twitter feed along with links to official and unofficial coverage <http://bones.med.ohio-state.edu/mla09/>. We put out a call to those MLA-Phil Chapter members in attendance for brief, informal reflections. Responses were received from Karen Albert, Fox Chase Cancer Center; Barbara Cavanaugh, University of Pennsylvania; Christine Chastain-Warheit, Christiana Care Health System; Marie FitzSimmons, Penn State College of Medicine; Gary Kaplan, Thomas Jefferson University; and Rebecca Landau, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center.

Your overall impressions?
KA: It was a good meeting, didn’t seem like the attendance was that much smaller than usual, and the Philadelphia Chapter was well represented! Some of the vendor-sponsored special events were wonderful, like EBSCO’s evening outing to the Bishop Museum.
BC: Lots of networking opportunities. Themes of synthesizing and linking information, sharing information within our own profession,new roles for librarians. Read more» » »