Marita Malone
by Marita Malone
As a new librarian who entered the profession in midlife, I was very impressed with my first MLA’10 Reflect & Connect Annual Meeting and Exhibition. I had the good fortune to attend the conference with two of my co-workers, both veterans of MLA who expertly guided me through the five days I attended. There are many who can write about the great programming that was available but I thought I would contribute from the first-timer prospective. In no particular order here is what I gathered: Read more» » »
by Priscilla Stephenson
EBSCOhost
At the annual EBSCOhost focus group meeting, EBSCO representatives presented options for future development of their databases and asked participants to prioritize recommendations. It’s been interesting to see how (relatively) quickly recommendations from one year’s meeting are incorporated in future years.
Here are some of the newer EBSCOhost changes that are coming our way (expected timeframe for these changes is July/August):
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by Priscilla Stephenson
For me, this was one of the better MLA experiences. I saw just the right combination of old friends and made new ones. My section’s business meeting was actually interesting, and I was fortunate to hear several terrific contributed papers.
I gravitate toward research papers, and I was glad to have had the opportunity to hear Julia Esparza’s presentation, a significant research project evaluating the impact of the clinical librarian program she manages at LSU. Her paper, “The Effect of a Clinical Medical Librarian as Part of an Internal Medicine Team on Hospital Length of Stay and Costs, reported on a well-designed and well-executed project spanning an eighteen-month period of a clinical librarianship program with two internal medicine teams.
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[Editor's note: This message original appeared in an email from the author to medlib-l on April 13, 2010. Permission to reprint was granted 6/14/2010.-RR]
Over the past few years, the MLA annual meeting has utilized an increasing number of online social networking tools to help participants interact with both one another and with meeting content. In the spirit of this year’s theme of “Reflect and Connect,” the annual meeting website features the Conference Community at http://bit.ly/mla2010. The primary goal of the Conference Community is to enable connections and communication among in-person and virtual attendees.
The Conference Community is an online portal which aggregates multiple communication “channels” and “backchannels,” providing opportunities for attendees to explore and play with various emerging technologies before, during and after of the meeting. It is also primary location for meeting content, such as videos recorded by members and materials provided by the keynote presenter, Daniel Pink.
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Report from SLA-PHL’s March 9th Program
Submitted by Martha Kirby and Gary Kaplan
Jean Fisher
On a balmy, spring-like day, twenty-five members of the SLA Philadelphia Chapter, Drexel student chapter, and guests gathered at Drexel’s Hagerty Library. Others attended online via AdobeConnect, an option SLA-PHL has been offering since merging with the Central PA chapter.
Our speaker was Jean Fisher, an SLA colleague and principal at Vantage Information Services, where she provides taxonomy services, market research, and competitive intelligence for the publishing community.
Jean described trends in sci/tech publishing and encouraged audience members to contribute their own experience with these trends:
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