Philadelphia Regional Chapter / Medical Library Association
Thanks to everyone who came to the 57th Annual Meeting of the Philadelphia Regional Chapter! Joan MacKenzie, chapter archivist, posted photos to our flickr group.
Congratulations to this year’s awardees:
PHILADELPHIA REGIONAL CHAPTER
Annual Report
The Philadelphia Chapter Board has met five times since the MLA Annual Meeting was held in Philadelphia in May 2007. The Chapter’s Annual Business Meeting and Luncheon was held on April 17. The transitional meeting of the old and new Boards will take place in July 2008. Chapter assets as of April were $12,881.76 in the checking account and $5620.41 in our investment account, for a total of $18,502.17.
The following represents the activities of the Chapter relative to the strategic plan and goals of MLA.
PHILADELPHIA REGIONAL CHAPTER
Mid-Year Report
The Philadelphia Chapter Board has met three times since the MLA Annual Meeting held in Philadelphia, PA, in May 2007. We had a Transitional Meeting of the incoming and outgoing boards on July 12, 2007. The following meetings took place on September 18th, and November 20th. Chapter assets as of November 20th, were $15,847.69.
The following represents the activities of the Chapter relative to the strategic plan and goals of MLA.
Goal 1: Recruitment, Membership and Leadership in the Profession
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Thanks to everyone—and there were a lot of you—who responded to the communications survey! Since launching the new site last Summer, this is the first formal investigation into its use. Our site is powered by WordPress which allows any chapter member to contribute. One person wrote that the chapter wants members to use the blog. Just to clarify: the chapter wants its members to communicate using whatever technology is appropriate. (Talking is good.) But, yes, please do try the blog out. Let’s all learn together. Please consider promoting your work on the website. Are you promoting Women’s History Month with an exhibition in your library? Did you talk to a community group about health information? Toot your own horn. Post about it to let your colleagues know and to let the public see the great work we do. While our website’s main target audience is its members, the public and our stakeholders—employers, vendors, users—are also important. We get a lot more hits than are accounted for by the 64 people who responded that they’ve viewed the site. Many of our visitors come from search engine queries on names of our members and their institutions; consider this as a way to publicize your information services and the value you add to your organizations.
The survey addressed readership, authorship, and value. Full results are summarized here.
Ballots have been mailed as of Friday, March 14th. Any paid member who does not receive a ballot by Wednesday, March 19 should contact Nina Long at 215-898-3826 or nlong@wistar.org.
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