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Question - Are you interested in the information requirements of the Animal Welfare Act and how best to meet those requirements?

 Answer - Then this is the workshop for you!

 Question - Should you attend?

Answer – Yes, if you are a:

• Librarian eager to sharpen your expert searching skills
• Librarian exploring ways to get involved in translational science
• Librarian collaborating with researchers engaged in animal research.
• Librarian serving on their institution’s Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)
• Researcher preparing animal use protocols for their IACUC
• Scientist or non-scientist members of an IACUC

 When – All day October 12, 2011,  9 AM – 4 PM (Lunch on your own)

Where – University of Pennsylvania Biomedical Library training lab 

The training lab is in the Penn Biomedical Library, Johnson Pavilion,
3610 Hamilton Walk

Campus map showing building:
http://www.library.upenn.edu/locations/biomedmap.html
Map of library (training lab is on bottom   right):  http://www.library.upenn.edu/locations/floorplans/biomedone.html
Directions:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Biomedical%20
Library%20-%20Johnson%20Pavilion@39.949605,+-75.195923

Click here to register:

http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=223848

Registration deadline is October 7.

Cost – $25.00 SLA or MLA Member

            $50.00 Non-member

            Free – student, retired, between jobs

 Contact  – See more details below or for further information contact,

Jeanette de Richemond at jderichemond@gmail.com

 A Workshop on

Meeting the Information Requirements of the Animal Welfare Act

  The regulations of the (Animal Welfare Act) AWA require that investigators provide Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees (IACUC) with documentation demonstrating that alternatives to procedures that may cause more than momentary pain or distress to the animals have been considered and that activities do not unnecessarily duplicate previous experiments. A thorough literature search regarding alternatives meets this Federal mandate. An alternative is any procedure which results in the reduction in the numbers of animals used, refinement of techniques, or replacement of animals.

 The objectives of the workshop are to provide:

- An overview of the AWA and its information requirements;
- A review of the alternatives concept;
- An introduction to NAL, AWIC and other organizations;
- Instruction on the use of existing information databases/networks; and
- On-line database searching experience.

Application deadline is November 15 The Donald A. B. Lindberg Research Fellowship funds research aimed at expanding the research knowledgebase, linking the information services provided by librarians to improved health care and advances in biomedical research. The endowment will provide a $10,000 grant, awarded by MLA through a competitive grant process, to a qualified health sciences librarian, informatician, health professional, researcher, educator, or health administrator. Research in alignment with the MLA research agenda’s top ranked research questions is preferred over other areas of research, and information about the research agenda is located at www.mlanet.org/research/agenda_2008.html. For questions, contact Brian P. Bunnett, AHIP, Lindberg Research Fellowship jury chair, at bbunnett@salud.unm.edu.